tham & videgard hansson arkitekts: apartment at humlegarden, stockholm

tham & videgard hansson arkitekts: apartment at humlegarden, stockholm:

Departing from the traditional swedish interior use of colour and patterns, developed by artists 
and architects like carl larsson and josef frank, this apartment also relates directly to the setting 
at the park humlegarden where the greenery outside changes with the season. from winter 
grey and black, to summertime bright and deep green, to orange, red and yellow in autumn.

tham & videgard hansson arkitekts first starting point was to reestablish the well crafted quality 
of the once high-class turn of the century apartment (late jugend / art nouveau 1800/1900) 
that had been totally altered, and even for some time transformed into a hotel, leaving very few
traces of the original.

they used patterns and colour to order space in previous projects that the occupants had seen.
the overlapping colours transform the layout of the apartment and add a new structure of spaces 
linked to each other across the original plan. the parquet floor also function as a uniting system 
that offer design possibilities. once they had set up colours in different shades, they developed 
each room in relation to the others, every piece of parquet was defined to fit into the right postion, 
there was no random factor in the construction process.

white furniture: when it was all rendered in white, the physical design of each piece of furniture
is highlighted. at the same time it made it possible to create a coherent ensemble including pieces
from very different designers and times.

one-offs: in this apartment they used the almost round-table, the sweden dining table, 
the carrara hexagon table, the triangular childrens table, and the white hexagon museum 
bench in the entrance, originally designed for the kalmar museum of art.