Designed for Villa Norrköping, 1964
The Norrköping 01 stool and Norrköping 02 table are quiet pieces with carefully resolved detailing. Both are made in pine.
Both were originally drawn by Sverre Fehn for Villa Norrköping in Sweden, built for a housing exhibition exploring the Scandinavian home of the future. The villa is laid out as a Greek cross, with kitchen and bathrooms placed at the core of the plan. That centralised structure is echoed in the construction and detailing of the Norrköping pieces, where attention is drawn to the core of the objects themselves.
"Each material has its own shadow. The shadow of a stone is not the same as that of a brittle autumn leaf. The shadow penetrates the material and radiates its message. You converse with material through the pores of your skin, your ears and your eyes."
Sverre Fehn
Sverre Fehn was an architect of constructions, using materials to write stories inseparable from their structure. Like his buildings, his furniture consists of built objects — each based on a constructive idea with its own worth, in its own space, and with its own touch of poetry.
Sverre Fehn was born in Kongsberg, Norway, in 1924. He took his degree at the Oslo School of Architecture, where he would later return as a professor. In the early 1950s he studied primitive North African mural architecture in Morocco, and spent time in Paris working and studying at Jean Prouvé's office. Both experiences shaped the practice he established in Oslo in 1953.
Fehn was equally revered at home and abroad. In 1997 he received the Pritzker Architecture Prize, often called the Nobel Prize of architecture. The Sverre Fehn Collection by Fjordfiesta features furniture from three highlights of his career: the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1962), Villa Schreiner in Norway (1963) and Villa Norrköping in Sweden (1964).
Pål Lunder, founder of Fjordfiesta, on the project
"I was introduced to Sverre Fehn's projects as an architecture student. I was drawn to the houses — the light, the rooms, the materials, the whole. Fehn belonged to the old school of architects who also drew the interior details, the lighting, the furniture. They worked the full scale, from the smallest element to the largest.
The furniture was drawn specifically for each project, though a few pieces recur. They are spatial and sensuous — small architectural projects, rooms within rooms. I believe they are universal and don't depend on the room they were drawn for; they hold their own anywhere.
I have deep respect for Sverre Fehn as an architect — the only Norwegian to receive the Pritzker Prize, architecture's Nobel. I see it as both a pleasure and an obligation to champion Fehn in particular, and good Norwegian design in general. That is what we do through Fjordfiesta, where we focus on furniture with character, preferably Norwegian, regardless of period."
Sverre Fehn Norrköping 01 stool and 02 table
Sverre Fehn Norrköping 01 stool and 02 table are carefully constructed objects, reflecting the Pritzker laureate's rational and poetic approach to architecture.
Fehn drew furniture throughout his career, tailored to specific houses and pavilions. For years the physical versions have been well-kept secrets, known to only a few. Now a curated selection is made available to a wider audience for the first time.
The Sverre Fehn Collection is developed in close collaboration with Sverre Fehn's family and Fehn Forvaltning, who have followed every step of the process to ensure the result stays true to Fehn's intentions.
Dimensions (mm)
Stool (Norrköping 01): W 430 × D 430 × H 380
Table (Norrköping 02): W 1130 × D 1130 × H 700
Photography: Anne Valeur / Styling: Live Berg Olsen / Pudder Agency
Archive photo: Teigens fotoatelier / Dextra Photo / The Norwegian museum of Science and Technology.
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