Christian Halleröd holds up a vintage Finnish chair in the atelier of Swedish fashion designer Saman Amel. If you’ve ever stepped inside an Acne Studios store, there’s a good chance you’ve found yourself in a space designed by Halleroed. The Stockholm-based design studio, led by Christian and Ruxandra Halleröd, has a long-standing relationship with the Swedish fashion brand’s co-founder and creative director, Jonny Johansson. Over the past 10 years, their clean, almost industrial, otherworldly interiors have come to define Acne’s retail spaces around the world. “We love to have that personal connection to the brands we work with; it really allows us to get into their DNA, ” says Christian, who trained as a cabinetmaker, designing furniture for stores, before founding Halleroed in 1998. Ruxandra, an architect, joined several years later. The couple had met in a bar in the Swedish capital in the early aughts and had been together for 10 years before they decided to work together professionally. “It felt very natural, This story is from Kinfolk Issue Fifty-One Buy Now Related Stories Design Issue 51 John Pawson From the king of minimalism: “I find the essential and get the design down to a point where you can’t add or subtract from it.” Design Interiors Issue 51 Axel Vervoordt Inside the world of Axel Vervoordt. Design Issue 51 Inga Sempé “Minimalism is boring as hell, and on top of that, it’s preachy.” Design Issue 51 Andrew Trotter The architect and designer on renewing traditional architecture. Design Issue 51 Kim Lenschow The architect who wants to show you how your house works. Design Issue 51 Sean Canty The Harvard professor on architecture as a driver for social change.
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