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The 2026 hot list: the 17 best new retail spots in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden

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Track 2026 retail openings across Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. This is the live list, updated as soft launches slide and bigger debuts get pushed. It is organised month by month and sticks to what is actually opening – shops, boutiques and concept stores, from under-the-radar independents to flagship launches with real pull.

Top photography courtesy of Felix Odell and Adoore

1/10

Östhem

Malmö, Sweden

One of Malmö’s longest-running bookshop addresses entered a new chapter when Östhem took over the former Bokvärlden in October 2026. Owners Rasmus Redemo and Sandra Rasmusson already run Östhem on Österlen and previously operated Aspuddens Bokhandel in Stockholm. In Malmö, they have expanded the existing shop while retaining its role as an independent neighbourhood bookseller and cultural meeting place. The selection gives added weight to literature, poetry and non-fiction, with author talks and conversations continuing the address’s long tradition of bringing readers and writers together.

Östhem

Fridhemstorget 22
Malmö
Sweden

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One of Malmö’s longest-running bookshop addresses entered a new chapter when Östhem took over the former Bokvärlden in October 2026. Owners Rasmus Redemo and Sandra Rasmusson already run Östhem on Österlen and previously operated Aspuddens Bokhandel in Stockholm. In Malmö, they have expanded the existing shop while retaining its role as an independent neighbourhood bookseller and cultural meeting place. The selection gives added weight to literature, poetry and non-fiction, with author talks and conversations continuing the address’s long tradition of bringing readers and writers together.

22/9

Transparent

Stockholm, Sweden

Transparent’s first proper store is built around listening rather than simply looking at speakers. The Stockholm audio brand, founded in 2012 by Per Brickstad, Magnus Wiberg and Martin Willers, has turned its former Sound Room near Nytorget into a permanent retail space designed by Brickstad himself. Speakers and turntables can be compared in a dedicated listening room, while Musicautomat gives visitors a place to pick a record and sit with it. Vinyl, cartridges, streaming modules, TV stands and audio accessories broaden the offer beyond Transparent’s recognisable clear-cased speakers.

Transparent

Renstiernas gata 21
Stockholm
Sweden

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Photography courtesy of Transparent

Transparent’s first proper store is built around listening rather than simply looking at speakers. The Stockholm audio brand, founded in 2012 by Per Brickstad, Magnus Wiberg and Martin Willers, has turned its former Sound Room near Nytorget into a permanent retail space designed by Brickstad himself. Speakers and turntables can be compared in a dedicated listening room, while Musicautomat gives visitors a place to pick a record and sit with it. Vinyl, cartridges, streaming modules, TV stands and audio accessories broaden the offer beyond Transparent’s recognisable clear-cased speakers.

9/9

Sania D’mina

Stockholm, Sweden

Sania D’mina’s new showroom on Banérgatan gives the Stockholm footwear label a permanent home beyond appointments and department-store pop-ups. Founder Sania Claus Demina launched the brand in 2018 around a deceptively simple premise. High heels should be elegant without being punishing. The shoes are designed in Stockholm, handmade in Italy and shaped with particular attention to fit, balance and wearability. For the showroom, Demina worked with interior designer and gallerist Fredrik Karlsson, creating a setting that reflects the brand’s preference for timeless materials and restrained glamour. It feels closer to a private fashion salon than a conventional shoe shop, with the entire collection presented in a calm, considered setting.

Sania D’mina

Banérgatan 5
Stockholm
Sweden

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Photography courtesy of Erik Lefvander and Sania D’mina

Sania D’mina’s new showroom on Banérgatan gives the Stockholm footwear label a permanent home beyond appointments and department-store pop-ups. Founder Sania Claus Demina launched the brand in 2018 around a deceptively simple premise. High heels should be elegant without being punishing. The shoes are designed in Stockholm, handmade in Italy and shaped with particular attention to fit, balance and wearability. For the showroom, Demina worked with interior designer and gallerist Fredrik Karlsson, creating a setting that reflects the brand’s preference for timeless materials and restrained glamour. It feels closer to a private fashion salon than a conventional shoe shop, with the entire collection presented in a calm, considered setting.

3/9

Byredo

Stockholm, Sweden

Smell is only the beginning at Byredo’s Stockholm flagship. Ben Gorham founded the brand here in 2006 around fragrance, but the Halleroed-designed store now brings perfume together with makeup, jewellery, leather goods, eyewear and the more experimental Byproduct line. A 2026 refresh introduces a new colour identity and atmosphere, while Stockholm is one of only a handful of Byredo stores worldwide offering its Library of the Senses: bookable sessions built around scent, touch and personal discovery.

Byredo

Mäster Samuelsgatan 3
Stockholm
Sweden

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Photography courtesy of Mikael Olsson and Byredo

Smell is only the beginning at Byredo’s Stockholm flagship. Ben Gorham founded the brand here in 2006 around fragrance, but the Halleroed-designed store now brings perfume together with makeup, jewellery, leather goods, eyewear and the more experimental Byproduct line. A 2026 refresh introduces a new colour identity and atmosphere, while Stockholm is one of only a handful of Byredo stores worldwide offering its Library of the Senses: bookable sessions built around scent, touch and personal discovery.

3/9

Klättermusen

Gothenburg, Sweden

Klättermusen’s new Gothenburg flagship brings the Swedish outdoor specialist’s uncompromising design language into a 359-square-metre space at Brunnsparken, its first Swedish store outside Stockholm. Developed with desigstudio WDC Spaces, the interior treats retail much like technical equipment, where every material has a purpose and a future beyond its first use. Recycled steel forms the display framework, while the brand’s own bungee cords and woven webbing reappear as fixtures. Even the tabletops are made from discarded yoghurt pots, their metallic lids still visible in the composite surface. We particularly like that nothing in the space feels like it’s there for decoration’s sake. The result is robust, tactile and inventive, with room for events and community gatherings as well as the brand’s full outdoor range.

Klättermusen

Södra Hamngatan 37
Göteborg
Sweden

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Photography courtesy of Klättermusen

Klättermusen’s new Gothenburg flagship brings the Swedish outdoor specialist’s uncompromising design language into a 359-square-metre space at Brunnsparken, its first Swedish store outside Stockholm. Developed with desigstudio WDC Spaces, the interior treats retail much like technical equipment, where every material has a purpose and a future beyond its first use. Recycled steel forms the display framework, while the brand’s own bungee cords and woven webbing reappear as fixtures. Even the tabletops are made from discarded yoghurt pots, their metallic lids still visible in the composite surface. We particularly like that nothing in the space feels like it’s there for decoration’s sake. The result is robust, tactile and inventive, with room for events and community gatherings as well as the brand’s full outdoor range.

20/8

Jeanerica

Stockholm, Sweden

Jeanerica’s second Stockholm store looks backwards to move the denim brand forward. Founders Lena Patriksson Keller and Jonas Clason worked again with architect Daniel Östman, this time inside a 1937 Backström & Reinius building on Nytorgsgatan. Rather than repeat the polished Nybrogatan flagship, the Södermalm space draws on the softer side of Swedish modernism through timber, textiles and a more domestic mood. A key reference is Margaretha Köhler, the pioneering designer behind 1930s concept store Futurum, whose work once helped define modern Swedish interiors. Denim remains central, joined by everyday wardrobe pieces that suit the neighbourhood’s less formal rhythm.

Jeanerica

Nytorgsgatan 36A
Stockholm
Sweden

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Photography courtesy of Jeanerica

Jeanerica’s second Stockholm store looks backwards to move the denim brand forward. Founders Lena Patriksson Keller and Jonas Clason worked again with architect Daniel Östman, this time inside a 1937 Backström & Reinius building on Nytorgsgatan. Rather than repeat the polished Nybrogatan flagship, the Södermalm space draws on the softer side of Swedish modernism through timber, textiles and a more domestic mood. A key reference is Margaretha Köhler, the pioneering designer behind 1930s concept store Futurum, whose work once helped define modern Swedish interiors. Denim remains central, joined by everyday wardrobe pieces that suit the neighbourhood’s less formal rhythm.

11/6

Hye The Store

Copenhagen, Denmark

Korean craft gets a dedicated Copenhagen address at Hye The Store, founded by former Seoul-based editor Hyeyoung Hwang. Set inside a red-brick Nordhavn warehouse, the shop brings together homeware, fashion and accessories from independent Asian makers, chosen for everyday function as much as form. Look for Taesoo Kim’s traditional sabal bowls, Studio Eaea’s cherry-wood boards and Cys stainless-steel cutlery, alongside Artbo Studio’s sculptural moon jars made from Korean mosi ramie. Hwang plans her own Korean-made pieces too, while gatherings and dinners give customers more context around the crafts, materials and rituals behind the objects.

Hye The Store

Århusgade 128H
Copenhagen
Denmark

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Photography courtesy of Mineun Kim and Hye The Store

Korean craft gets a dedicated Copenhagen address at Hye The Store, founded by former Seoul-based editor Hyeyoung Hwang. Set inside a red-brick Nordhavn warehouse, the shop brings together homeware, fashion and accessories from independent Asian makers, chosen for everyday function as much as form. Look for Taesoo Kim’s traditional sabal bowls, Studio Eaea’s cherry-wood boards and Cys stainless-steel cutlery, alongside Artbo Studio’s sculptural moon jars made from Korean mosi ramie. Hwang plans her own Korean-made pieces too, while gatherings and dinners give customers more context around the crafts, materials and rituals behind the objects.

10/6

Dynaudio

Copenhagen, Denmark

Sound is treated as architecture at Dynaudio’s first permanent European flagship, opened in central Copenhagen in June 2026. The Danish loudspeaker maker, founded in 1977, worked with Norm Architects on the three-level Møntergade space, conceived less as a conventional showroom than somewhere to listen, gather and linger. Materials, proportions and acoustics make sound feel spatial, while dedicated listening areas place the systems in domestic-scale settings rather than retail displays. Exhibitions, collaborations and live events extend the programme beyond product demonstrations, giving the flagship a cultural role alongside its commercial one.

Dynaudio

Møntergade 19
Copenhagen
Denmark

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Photography courtesy of Karl Tranberg Knudsen and Norm Architects

Sound is treated as architecture at Dynaudio’s first permanent European flagship, opened in central Copenhagen in June 2026. The Danish loudspeaker maker, founded in 1977, worked with Norm Architects on the three-level Møntergade space, conceived less as a conventional showroom than somewhere to listen, gather and linger. Materials, proportions and acoustics make sound feel spatial, while dedicated listening areas place the systems in domestic-scale settings rather than retail displays. Exhibitions, collaborations and live events extend the programme beyond product demonstrations, giving the flagship a cultural role alongside its commercial one.

10/6

Skandinavisk

Copenhagen, Denmark

Skandinavisk finally has the Copenhagen flagship its scent universe needed. Set on Gammel Mønt in Indre By, the store puts the B Corp-certified fragrance brand inside a building close to 300 years old, rebuilt after Copenhagen’s fire of 1728 and once home to a glassmaker. We’re obsessed with the details: original pine beams, Bornholm stone flagstones, curved glass at the entrance and a courtyard behind it. Go for home scents, diffusers, candles, hand and body care and eau de parfum, especially if you want Nordic nature translated without the usual souvenir-shop birch-and-fjord shorthand.

Skandinavisk

Gammel Mønt 23
Copenhagen
Denmark

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Photography courtesy of Skandinavisk

Skandinavisk finally has the Copenhagen flagship its scent universe needed. Set on Gammel Mønt in Indre By, the store puts the B Corp-certified fragrance brand inside a building close to 300 years old, rebuilt after Copenhagen’s fire of 1728 and once home to a glassmaker. We’re obsessed with the details: original pine beams, Bornholm stone flagstones, curved glass at the entrance and a courtyard behind it. Go for home scents, diffusers, candles, hand and body care and eau de parfum, especially if you want Nordic nature translated without the usual souvenir-shop birch-and-fjord shorthand.

29/5

Singular Society

Stockholm, Sweden

Singular Society is built around a paid membership model, giving members access to lower pricing across its own tightly edited range of clothing, homeware, pantry goods and everyday objects. The H&M Group-backed label makes most sense at its 630-square-metre flagship by Engelbrektsplan, where the store, service hub and event space are designed by Daniel Östman with Hultman–Vogt. Go for pieces where material quality is easy to judge by hand: cashmere, outerwear, bedding, towels, tableware, chef’s knives, leather goods, candles and perfume. It is strongest as a place for better versions of things you use constantly.

Singular Society

Birger Jarlsgatan 28
Stockholm
Sweden

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Photography courtesy of Magnus Mårding and Singular Society

Singular Society is built around a paid membership model, giving members access to lower pricing across its own tightly edited range of clothing, homeware, pantry goods and everyday objects. The H&M Group-backed label makes most sense at its 630-square-metre flagship by Engelbrektsplan, where the store, service hub and event space are designed by Daniel Östman with Hultman–Vogt. Go for pieces where material quality is easy to judge by hand: cashmere, outerwear, bedding, towels, tableware, chef’s knives, leather goods, candles and perfume. It is strongest as a place for better versions of things you use constantly.

16/5

Bornholm Vinegar Company

Bornholm, Denmark

At Konservesfabrikken in Nexø, Bornholm Vinegar Company turns one of the island’s least souvenir-ish food crafts into a proper stop. The micro vinegar brewery makes small-batch vinegars from Bornholm produce and the seasons, with pear cider vinegar aged in old Calvados barrels, gastrik with apple cider vinegar, plum juice, sloe berries and caramel, hybenrose vinegar for oysters, ceviche and drinks and straight apple cider vinegar for the kitchen. The 2026 shop adds the good bit: tasting before buying, a look at the factory and enough acidity to rescue whatever you are cooking back home, especially dull salads.

Bornholm Vinegar Company

Stenbrudsvej 35
Nexø
Denmark

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Photography courtesy of Bornholm Vinegar Company

At Konservesfabrikken in Nexø, Bornholm Vinegar Company turns one of the island’s least souvenir-ish food crafts into a proper stop. The micro vinegar brewery makes small-batch vinegars from Bornholm produce and the seasons, with pear cider vinegar aged in old Calvados barrels, gastrik with apple cider vinegar, plum juice, sloe berries and caramel, hybenrose vinegar for oysters, ceviche and drinks and straight apple cider vinegar for the kitchen. The 2026 shop adds the good bit: tasting before buying, a look at the factory and enough acidity to rescue whatever you are cooking back home, especially dull salads.

16/4

Gärsnäs / Sekt

Malmö, Sweden

A century-old furniture maker and a craft label with future-antiques energy now share one Malmö room. Gärsnäs, the third-generation family company founded in 1893 in Österlen, brings the timber knowledge: chairs, tables, reuse thinking and Swedish furniture with actual workshop weight. Sekt, the Malmö-based brand founded by Lovisa Hansson and Milan Kosovic, brings the more obsessive layer: lighting and interior objects made with Swedish artisans in mouth-blown glass, forged metal, cabinetmaking and sand-cast forms. The joint showroom in the heart of Malmö works because the overlap is real: material intelligence, local production and design that wants to age well.

Gärsnäs / Sekt

Regementsgatan 14
Malmö
Sweden

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Photography courtesy of Fanny Rådvik

A century-old furniture maker and a craft label with future-antiques energy now share one Malmö room. Gärsnäs, the third-generation family company founded in 1893 in Österlen, brings the timber knowledge: chairs, tables, reuse thinking and Swedish furniture with actual workshop weight. Sekt, the Malmö-based brand founded by Lovisa Hansson and Milan Kosovic, brings the more obsessive layer: lighting and interior objects made with Swedish artisans in mouth-blown glass, forged metal, cabinetmaking and sand-cast forms. The joint showroom in the heart of Malmö works because the overlap is real: material intelligence, local production and design that wants to age well.

10/4

Slvrbrgs

Malmö, Sweden

Concept store Slvrbrgs picks up the thread from Silverbergs, the Malmö design store that shaped local taste for decades before closing in 1995. The new version comes from David Carlson, founder of David Design and former creative director at Orrefors Kosta Boda, together with Anders Sjöstedt, whose background runs through Minc and Hyper Island in New York. Set across 400 square metres, it folds fashion, interiors, books, music, art, gourmet finds and café life into one stop. Watch for names such as local designers and artists Kajsa Willner, Lab La Bla and Andréason & Leibel, as well as perfume brands 19-69 and Art Brüt. Another payoff is downstairs, in the tucked-away basement gallery space.

Slvrbrgs

Skomakaregatan 9
Malmö
Sweden

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Photography courtesy of The Nordic Nomad

Concept store Slvrbrgs picks up the thread from Silverbergs, the Malmö design store that shaped local taste for decades before closing in 1995. The new version comes from David Carlson, founder of David Design and former creative director at Orrefors Kosta Boda, together with Anders Sjöstedt, whose background runs through Minc and Hyper Island in New York. Set across 400 square metres, it folds fashion, interiors, books, music, art, gourmet finds and café life into one stop. Watch for names such as local designers and artists Kajsa Willner, Lab La Bla and Andréason & Leibel, as well as perfume brands 19-69 and Art Brüt. Another payoff is downstairs, in the tucked-away basement gallery space.

10/4

Adoore

Stockholm, Sweden

Figure-skimming dresses and a calmer retail rhythm set the tone at Adoore’s space in Mood, the central Stockholm mall that brings together fashion, cafés, restaurants and bars under one roof. Founded by Petra Tungården, the label is known for fitted dresses, matching sets and polished silhouettes, and this store gives that world room to land properly. The interior was designed by Caroline Sandström Blasiak, whose restrained eye helps keep the space soft. More generous fitting rooms, seating and space for styling helps fashionistas step right into Adoore’s full universe.

Adoore

Regeringsgatan 48
Stockholm
Sweden

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Photography courtesy of Felix Odell and Adoore

Figure-skimming dresses and a calmer retail rhythm set the tone at Adoore’s space in Mood, the central Stockholm mall that brings together fashion, cafés, restaurants and bars under one roof. Founded by Petra Tungården, the label is known for fitted dresses, matching sets and polished silhouettes, and this store gives that world room to land properly. The interior was designed by Caroline Sandström Blasiak, whose restrained eye helps keep the space soft. More generous fitting rooms, seating and space for styling helps fashionistas step right into Adoore’s full universe.

3/3

En Doft

Stockholm, Sweden

In Stockholm neighbourhood Södermalm by Nytorget, En Doft’s flagship store treats fragrance like a designed object. The brand was founded in 2022 as a collaboration between All Matters Studio and French perfumer Emmanuel Martini, with the perfume studio based in Copenhagen. The interior, designed with All Matters Studio, sticks to wood, aluminium and stone, keeping the room paired-down so the scents do the work. Start with Domus Sanctus, then move through staples like Aestas Liguria and Insula Mane, with each scent explained by composition and story.

En Doft

Södermannagatan 23
Stockholm
Sweden

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Photography courtesy of En Doft

In Stockholm neighbourhood Södermalm by Nytorget, En Doft’s flagship store treats fragrance like a designed object. The brand was founded in 2022 as a collaboration between All Matters Studio and French perfumer Emmanuel Martini, with the perfume studio based in Copenhagen. The interior, designed with All Matters Studio, sticks to wood, aluminium and stone, keeping the room paired-down so the scents do the work. Start with Domus Sanctus, then move through staples like Aestas Liguria and Insula Mane, with each scent explained by composition and story.

28/1

Simone Book Services

Copenhagen, Denmark

Some Copenhagen shops sell books; this one treats them like atmosphere, research material and visual ammunition. In central Copenhagen, Simone Book Services is a bookstore with a consultancy brain, stocking rare and independent books and magazines while also building libraries, book branding, exhibitions and moodboards for brands and cultural projects. The edit moves through design, fashion, interiors, art, photography and print culture without feeling like a museum shelf. Go when you want the book nobody else has on display, or when a room, campaign or idea needs sharper references than another Pinterest board in book form.

Simone Book Services

Vester Voldgade 106
Copenhagen
Denmark

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Photography courtesy of Simone Book Services

Some Copenhagen shops sell books; this one treats them like atmosphere, research material and visual ammunition. In central Copenhagen, Simone Book Services is a bookstore with a consultancy brain, stocking rare and independent books and magazines while also building libraries, book branding, exhibitions and moodboards for brands and cultural projects. The edit moves through design, fashion, interiors, art, photography and print culture without feeling like a museum shelf. Go when you want the book nobody else has on display, or when a room, campaign or idea needs sharper references than another Pinterest board in book form.

22/1

Tadaima

Copenhagen, Denmark

Press the bell and leave the shop-floor reflex at the door. In central Copenhagen, Tadaima has reopened inside a nineteenth-century apartment, which suits Hanne Berzant, Josefine Berzant and Emma Berzant’s eye better than a white cube ever did. The edit folds together their own collection with Fredericia, Porta Romana, Zanetto, Serax, Artemide, Stack Furniture, Lotte Hoffmann ceramics and vintage objects, all placed like a home with no interest in behaving like one. Scandinavian, Italian and Japanese references move through furniture, lighting, textiles, silverware, books and art.

Tadaima

Silkegade 11
Copenhagen
Denmark

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Photography courtesy of Tadaima