About us, our designers and news
WELCOME TO ALMEDAHLS!
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Almedahls is a Swedish design company rooted in traditions dating back to the foundation of the company in 1846.
We develop and publish home and lifestyle products with distinct Scandinavian design.
The brand balances elegantly between offering a connection with our origins whilst being highly contemporary.
Our products are truly at home in settings where people spend time together.
Importantly, we aim to protect our planet in everything we do.
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Contact
Sweden
info@almedahls.se
+46 (0)320-794000
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PRESENTATION OF OUR DESIGNER
Astrid Sampe
Astrid Sampe (1909-2002) was born in Stockholm, but had her roots in Sjuhäradsbygden in western Sweden. She was trained at the Swedish State School of Arts, Craft and Design (Konstfack) in Stockholm, and later at the Royal College of Art in London. In 1937 she started working as a designer at Nordiska Kompaniet, and one year later she became the manager of the newly created NK Textile Studio (Textilkammaren). Astrid’s and Almedahls’ joint history dates back to the nineteen-fifties. At H55, the Exhibition in Helsingborg 1955, the Linen Line was introduced, a revolution of the Swedish linen cupboard, initiated and created by Astrid Sampe and including new sizes, patterns and colours of textiles, like napkins and tea-towels.
In the 1950’s printed towels were quite new and they became very popular in Sweden. Astrid Sampe’s “Persson’s Spice Rack”, dedicated to the ceramist Signe Persson Melin, who, in the early fifties, made a series of ceramic spice-jars with heads of cork, is one of the patterns that attracted much attention.
Josef Frank
Josef Frank (1885 - 1967) was an Austrian-Swedish architect and one of the foremost representatives of modernism in Austria. Josef Frank created the Bows pattern during the period 1920-1930 as part of a larger collection of patterns mixing geometrical shapes with elements from nature.We proudly present a selection of products with the original Josef Frank Bows pattern.
Marianne Nilsson
Marianne Nilsson was one of the talented employees who worked for Astrid Sampe at NK Textilkammare. Marianne came from the Konstfack art school and was one of Astrid's closest collaborators. Together with Astrid, she participated in the famous H55 fair in Helsingborg in 1955. There she worked on the Linen line(Linnelinjen), presenting two of her best known patterns, Sill and Bagare Bergström, which are still adorning home products today.
Marianne Westman
Marianne was one of Sweden´s leading designers. During the 1950s she designed among other things the pattern Picknick. Almedahls started a cooperation with Marianne in the summer of 2009. The first step was to recreate Picknick on modern products. Picknick was followed by Pomona, Frisco and Belle Amie. When the magazine Scandinavian Retro (May, 2016) asked her what she thought of everything she had accomplished, she replied ”I´m not sure how to answer that but I have always had a great time”.
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NEWS
The Almedahls Home webshop offers the full product range of the five bestselling designs in our total product range.
Be inspired by the wide variety of products!
We will shortly launch our product news for the autumn 2018 season.