iArtipelag · Värmdö
INNER CHILD: Playing with Design
Lidewij Edelkoort and Philip Fimmano curate 100 designers and artists, among them Maarten Baas, Front and Yinka Ilori, in eight chapters on play, imagination and making by hand.
You'll meet an oversized hibernating bear, made by the Swedish studio Front for Vitra. Here furniture curls up to sleep, rugs turn into animals and bright blocks recall childhood building games.
Trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort and curator Philip Fimmano made the show for Artipelag only: 100 designers and artists in eight chapters, arranged like the pages of a storybook. Much of it starts from scraps of cardboard, wood offcuts, wool and paper. The set is by Kiki van Eijk and Joost van Bleiswijk with their children, Ko and Puk, whose ideas the curators chose not to overrule. It even tells the story of Punch, the orphaned monkey who went viral for adopting an IKEA soft toy: the one IKEA purchase nobody has regretted.
Vogue Scandinavia said it makes you want to interact with everything. Tickets are SEK 195, SEK 20 less online, and everyone 18 and under gets in free. A short introduction, included in the ticket, runs at 11:30 in Swedish and 14:00 in English.
Editor's pick
Lidewij Edelkoort and Philip Fimmano bring together 100 designers and artists, Maarten Baas, Front and Yinka Ilori among them, in eight chapters on play and making by hand. Out on Värmdö, in the archipelago.
Look for
Front's hibernating bear
Look for the oversized bear the Swedish studio made for Vitra, a piece of furniture shown asleep for the winter.
Max Lamb's cardboard furniture
The British designer's cardboard pieces, among them the BOX Stool (2023), come painted by his son.
mirocomachiko's animal rugs
Rugs by the Japanese artist that turn into expressive animal creatures on the floor.
The papier-mâché planetarium
Puk, one of the two children behind the set, proposed turning part of the show into a planetarium, and the curators say it changed how a papier-mâché installation is seen.
Good for
- Nerding Out
- Out-Of-Town Guests
- Small Kids
Skip if
You want paintings: this is furniture, rugs, textiles and handmade objects.
With kids
Everyone aged 0 to 18 gets in free. The designers' children, Ko and Puk, helped shape the exhibition design, including the idea of a planetarium.
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Image credits
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- INNER CHILD: Playing with DesignCourtesy of Artipelag
- Reflections through timePhoto: Karin Björkquist
- Medieval FashionPhoto: Ola Myrin, The Swedish History Museum/SHM
- Viking Life with Halvdan and MeiaPhoto: Helena Bonnevier, The Swedish History Museum/SHM.
- ArtipelagBengt Oberger / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0