Nordiska Hem, the home and fashion store just outside Mörby Centrum on the south side, has 50% off almost all its winter clothing and good deals on everything from the holiday season. We got some plant pots! A sale worth checking out.
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Music from Clabbe will be playing in the atrium at Mörby Centrum between 12 noon and 4pm on 8th November 2016. Enjoy the music while looking around and chatting with a whole host of exhibitors with products and services for older people. They will be there from 10am. There are some lectures to listen to, fitness activities and the chance to talk with local politicians. There is no charge and Thelins cafe will serve coffee and a bun for 39kr all day (usually 54kr).
Sale days! Notice boards from Made by Märtha and 50% off children's swimwear from Beachdragons21/4/2016
Our local shopping centre, Enebyängen, is getting a real boost this summer - Ikea is moving in! However, it won't be an ordinary store, it is called 'Ikea Service och Pick up', will be just 20% of the size of a normal shop and customers can pick up online orders there day...and night. The showroom will be home to kitchen, wardrobing and bathroom planning services, furniture to try out and around 100 small items you can buy and take home directly.
This is the first store in this concept to open in Sweden but there others across Europe. The kommun is very happy to have the company open here.
Each chair is refurbished and when recovered, the sisters consult with the Honorary Consul of the Kyrgz, Marianne Tuerlings, to get a history on the symbolism woven into the fabric as well as its history. Marianne has a unique knowledge of textiles from the Old Silk Road. They also work with Nicole Verkade-Schraven, who worked for 20 years as an auctioneer at Christie’s, to identify the time period and authenticity of the antique chairs the sisters buy. The sisters also work with a specialist to assess the viability of the fabric that is to be used as upholstery. When the chairs are complete, they are sold with a complete history, explaining the backgrounds behind the fabric and the chair, giving the new owner a revitalized piece of art that is not only a true conversation piece but also a living piece of history. I asked Lidewij how MOMIQ’s chairs can compliment the very modern design of Swedish furniture. She said they can work perfectly together. She explained that often modern Swedish design is typically one color and a MOMIQ piece will often ‘pop’ against the subtleness of modern Swedish design. MOMIQ does an elegant job of updating and revitalizing these antique chairs and giving them a beautiful modern feel.
Lidewij moved to Danderyd earlier this year and now plans on selling her chairs through retailers in Sweden, starting in the Stockholm area. You can buy all pieces from the collections on MOMIQ's website (and retailers in Amsterdam). I know we live in an artistic neighbourhood. Djursholm particularly has been home to numerous well-known creative people in its 150 year history. It is home now to a huge array of artisans, many of whom are members of Danderyds Konsthall. Despite this, I was still surprised when I was introduced to Märtha Cardelius and discovered how beautiful she could make the ever-practical notice board...! Märtha works from her workshop at home here in Danderyd. Neat piles of wonderful fabrics sit on shelves and notice boards cover the workshop walls. There is a big selection of children's fabrics and plenty of more grown-up patterns from Svenskt Tenn. The ex-financier has taken various upholstery classes and loves recovering old, beautiful bits of furniture to give them a new life and look. The inspiration to start creating these wonderful notice boards came from her mother, who had made them when Märtha was a child and had given her a board when she moved into her first flat. Märtha decided to recover it for her first child and then made subsequent ones for her other two children when they were born. Word spread amongst friends and family and, in 2012, Märtha created her company: Made by Märtha. The board above is made in green Toile de Jouy and the one to the right in Sandberg's Petronella fabric with pink ribbons. Both are 695kr in the small size (50 x 31cms) - see below for the standard sizes. Märtha makes the boards to order so can make them in any size or shape. Generally, she produces around one a week, splitting her time between these and reupholstering all sorts of wonderful, old and not-so-old furniture. I'm discovering that many of the businesses that operate in Danderyd are run from home and life feels very balanced when sitting and interview business owners in their garden and with a pot of tea! There isn't any point in calling Märtha at 3pm on a weekday, she'll be collecting one child and other or heading off to some fun activity. But call her in the morning and pop over to talk fabrics and you'll end up with a really original, stylish and practical notice board that will look super wherever it is hung.
On our way to check out the lego playland in Danderyd called Creative Brick Zone (more about that soon), we parked in front of the Red Cross charity shop on the corner of Sätraängsvägen. The shop takes up what looks like 4 ground floor apartment so we went in to see what gems we could dig up. People were pottering in and out even on a Wednesday lunchtime and one customer collected the most amazing ornate dark wood table base from outside the shop. Inside was a large selection of small pieces of furniture, a few big items and everything from crockery to books. Music had its own small room and we spotted a stash of records. There was, as usual, plenty of 1950s-1980s style bits and bobs but a few older pieces too. The shop is very well laid out so it is easy to have a good look through. I had no idea our area could support such a big second-hand shop with numerous staff/volunteers (we counted 6 in red aprons). There is plenty of parking out the front so check it out for a bargain or two. I had planned to write about interesting things I found at Cranberry Corner when I popped along to the 'sensommarkväll' - late summer evening - last Thursday. There were lots of interesting things and I came home with some wonderful Tarocco Orange Crabtree & Evelyn hand cream and a Mill & Mortar Röt Dukkah spice box, as well as many ideas and pictures of furniture that I'd like. But. I wanted to share something else. Lisa, who has run the store for the last few years, remembered me. From when I last spoke to her, briefly, 2 years ago, she remembered that I had been in Sweden for 3 years and I, very pregnant, had stayed at Danderyds Gästeri with my mother when I first arrived. She could recall that despite being surrounded a room full of people happily chattering and shopping. For me, it is exceptional customer service (and memory!) to be able to recall a customer from some years earlier. Despite having a very full store full of people, she also helped my friend with a question about chairs and served us something bubbly and yummy. When stores have open evenings and special events, the level of customer service (or lack of it!) becomes much more apparent. Not only we were very impressed with Lisa, there were staff all over the place so someone was always available to answer questions and wrap everything we bought. The store carries lots for the garden - much from my previous 'local' garden, Kew Gardens. There is lots for the kitchen and for dining, including Bruka's current lines. I like the bits of furniture that Lisa finds, which change with each season. There are candles in all shapes and sizes and electric lights and lampshades too. Cranberry Corner carries plenty from recognisable Swedish brands but amongst them, things from further afield and are original and different. I'll be going back because I have my eye on a side table but would recommend it anyway for those with interiors to decorate and mouths to feed. Or just to go and chat with Lisa! Sometimes I actually get the chance to go to the things I post about on here and on Facebook. Not often enough but, just sometimes, I take the time to make the most of the things going on in the neighbourhood! Today, I checked out the sale at Nordiska Hem Lifestyle alongside Mörby Centrum and bagged rather a few too many bargains. The sale is in a marquee next to the shop which made shopping in today's wind feel a bit precarious but, on the other hand, it also felt a bit like a garden party! I found a woolen dress that is extremely comfortable and a few other things for myself. There were some beautiful party dresses...long and short and in all imaginable shapes... As I went inside to pay, the floor space had boxes on that were being unpacked and a bit of nosing around revealed new stock of the brightly coloured, Swedish-designed but made in Portugal, crockery from Mateus. And turning around I bumped into these really fun and equally bright jackets from 48 7 Sweden.
Anyway, then and now I have got distracted with what is inside rather than outside in the sale. My point for this post was that Nordiska Hem Lifestyle has the last day of its sale tomorrow, with 70% off everything. Worth checking out if you like shopping! After reading an article in our local paper, Mitt i Danderyd, about Danderyd's high number of business owners and featuring Jessica Dahlberg from newly started Beachdragons, I decided to find out more. I met Jessica at Monrads last week and, over caesar salads and cups of tea, found out what she has been up to since moving back to Danderyd from London four years ago. The first answer was changing career from law to setting up her own business. Beachdragons launched its first collection of children's beachwear this January and to my surprise, Jessica had only been planning it for a year. The clothing features anchors and starfish with long and short sleeves and legs. Paisley prints are available in blue for little girls, alongside the necessary pink though even this has been beautifully adorned with frills so no item looks like 'normal' swimwear. Jessica's decision to start the company in the first place came from spotting a gap in the childrenswear marketplace - stylish beachwear with UV-protection. She pointed out to me that people travel to the sun all year round and finding nice beachwear for a winter-sun holidays in, say, January, is almost impossible. It makes me think we haven't been away enough yet... Among the usual raft of new business admin tasks, Jessica travelled to Portugal to meet and work with the factory that will produce her lines. Italian and Portuguese fabrics are printed in Spain and sewn at the Portuguese factory. A personal relationship with her producers is very important to her (and that it is relatively easy to get there!). Since January, she has been collecting press coverage and sales from all over the place, including Switzerland, the UK and Italy via the web. I asked how she had got on at the business start-up centre for our area, NyföretagarCentrum and she recommended their seminars, particularly liking one on e-commerce. Although she didn't use many of the other services, it was through them that she was featured in Mitt i Danderyd, so publicity comes from all sorts of sources. Something I only realised afterwards was that I didn't see the clothes so I'll pop into Lilla Gröna Indianen a.s.a.p. to check them out properly! Jessica herself is a mother of three, the elder two born in London and, another thing done since moving back, having the youngest here. She is orginally from Stocksund but moved away after university, as so many do in our area, coming back to Sweden four years ago. It was fun to compare notes on having small children in each other's respective homelands! Jessica recommends A&G Show Academy for children's dance classes, Hilda for yoga and a couple of other local businesses who I hope to check out and profile soon. Now, where can we go where we'll need swimmers and sunscreen? |
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