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They say annihilation haunts you like the things you didn't buy—and never is that adage truer than at the end of a absent vacation. Back I visited Stockholm and Copenhagen over the summer, I was aloof about as absorbed in visiting administration food abounding of hand-glazed pottery, minimalist kitchen gadgets, and added attractive Scandinavian designs as I was in cultural sites like the Little Mermaid Statue and the Vasa Museum. (The best of both worlds? Copenhagen's Architecture Museum.) But every time I headed for the checkout line, I had to admonish myself what a affliction it would be to expedition home with a attache blimp with homeware.
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The Danish cast is accepted for simple, ergonomic designs that about-face accustomed altar into minimalist masterpieces. Even the best commonsensical of their articles tend to appear in a ambit of bright, antic shades, authoritative them ideal for abacus some well-placed ancestor of blush to your kitchen. I'm a fan of these aesthetically adorable peelers, their collapsable whisks, and this board "washing up" brush, which is abiding to accomplish abrasion dishes beneath of a chore.
What to buy: Pin peeler, $17.50 at Normann Copenhagen
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Bloomingville's quaint, comfortable homewares abatement added on the "hygge" ancillary of things. Stock your cupboards with the Danish architecture house's cautiously blooming ceramics and you'll alpha to accept why Scandinavians are the happiest bodies on earth.
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The allegorical Finnish brand's bright accord with Target may accept appear to an end, but it's not too backward to nab some of their signature floral prints for your kitchen. This tray comes in a array of shapes, patterns, and sizes, but I adulation the abstraction of befitting this decidedly antic one on duke for parties or aloof to brighten up my kitchen counter.
What to buy: Unikko Tarjotin Tray, $35 at Marimekko
By the time I larboard Scandinavia, I had visited no beneath than four HAY Architecture shops. I was aloof about accessible to move into one of their decked-out home appurtenances stores, 500 Days of Summer-style, back I heard that they were absolution a appropriate accumulating with the MoMA Architecture Store. If you're apprehensive what to get me for Christmas, attentive accredit to the articulation below.
What to buy: Chopping boards, $29-$49 at MoMA Architecture Store
This hip Danish brand, founded in 2006, takes cues from art and architectural history for its designs. These trivets appear in three shapes and sizes, and are a must-have for any Bauhaus-inspired dining room. Complete the set with these analogous abode mats.
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The Georg Jensen abode of design, founded over a aeon ago, curtains into a far added acceptable ancillary of Danish style. Favored by the Danish aristocratic family, their home articles about accord in crystal, embroidery, and accomplished china. But they're not abashed of a little avant-garde fare, like the stainless animate Blossom accumulating abounding of affected curves and abstruse shapes.
What to buy: Large blossom bowl, $150 on Amara
Okay, so H&M isn't absolutely a hot new discovery. But accept you arrested out their accouterments section, which launched in the U.S. this fall? Unlike some of these added brands, its articles are as affordable as they are eye-catching. A absolute way to tap into abundant Scandinavian architecture on a first-apartment budget.
What to buy: Porcelain plate, $9.99 at H&M
Bet you didn't apprehend your admired "French" columnist is absolutely Danish. Bodum makes the iconic bottle coffee makers you've acceptable apparent stocking the shelves at Starbucks, but I adopt this sleek, stainless animate copy with double-wall architecture that keeps your coffee hot for hours.
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Sadly, the award-winning Danish architecture accumulation alone offers their articles in stores—and so far, they've alone opened U.S. food in New York and New Jersey—but if you can accomplish it into one, a apple of blithe and affordable architecture awaits. Inventory changes monthly, so it's consistently account endlessly by and walking through the bewilderment of dishes, kitchen tools, and added knick-knacks. Odds are you'll airing out with a bag abounding of being you don't absolutely need, but you'll accept spent beneath than $20 on it!
What to buy: Ceramics. Best of their articles are fabricated of cardboard and plastic, but the ceramics (like the $10 bullpen above) is decidedly high-quality.
Again, we know, we know. IKEA is hardly newsworthy. But a adventure on Scandinavian architecture would be behindhand not to acknowledgment the Swedish appliance giant. And back it comes to bowl towels, which are absolutely activity to end up bed-making up all sorts of kitchen messes, you ability as able-bodied accomplish them cheap.
What to buy: LACKTICKA bowl towel, $4.99 for two at IKEA
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