Halleroed

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 Swed...