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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.

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.