In our second issue we visit the couple behind acclaimed interior architecture firm Halleroed at their forest hideaway, and we visit a 17th-century home and garden where time has stood still. Celebrated fashion designer Diana Orving creates a textile art installation in an empty museum exclusively for us, and we spend some time in the beautiful, sparse home of glass maestro Ingegerd Råman. “We are not easily tempted to buy things,” she says about her and her husband’s decision to live with the bare minimum of objects. “I will defend the empty space.” Elsewhere in the issue, we discuss the profound effects of the built environment on our wellbeing. “I want to be part of a cultural movement that recalibrate what matters in society, and in life,” says Danish chef Fredrik Bille Brahe in Hugo Macdonald’s article on reconnecting with our roots. “I think courage to be local is important.”

Topics: Scandinavian interiors, design, art and craft
Contents: Home and studio visits, interviews and features on everything associated to living well.
Format: A quarterly magazine
Languages: English
Size: 224 x 297 mm (softback) 216 pages

The New Era Magazine is an independent publication and digital platform dedicated to Scandinavian living. We print on the worlds most climate friendly paper, Lessebo 2000. The paper is produced from totally chlorine free pulp by Lessebo paper, the first paper producer to achieve Cradle to cradle Gold Award.

Ships around end of April

RUM INTERNATIONAL EDITION

No 12

For this international edition of RUM, we would like to advocate something as banal, obvious and – within the world of design – essential as the art of collaboration. 

It’s a simple constellation between people and yet such a vivid force of creativity and unified human energy, and in the past year we have truly come to appreciate the company of others and the sharing of thoughts and ideas. We have visited some of the many creative people around us and spoken to them about their collaborative creative process and how it strengthens their work, among them the Danish art collective SUPERFLEX, who actively work with the concept of collectiveness and cross-disciplinary collaborations.

On the cover is one of the fantastic homes we feature in this issue, an apartment in Stockholm, where interior designer Louise Liljencrantz has worked her magic with warm mahogany against light, cloudy colours. Also, we invite you into the Copenhagen home of Danish chef Bo Bech, where immaculate craftmanship, showstopping art and a spectacular view compete for your attention.

We visit architect Poul Høilund, co-founder of architectural studio Norrøn, and feel enlightened by his experimental approach to his home as a garden as well as his unique pieces of objects and furniture – a result of his close collaboration with a handful of artists.

NORTHLETTERS MAGAZINE throws a light on the Nordic, its stories, nature, culture and soul.

Our homes, our gardens and our home landscapes can change our habits, minds and feelings. They respond to our emotional needs, they are touching our souls, they communicate with us. Home is the place where we belong. Belonging is a deep reassuring emotion. Our homes, gardens and landscapes are a symbol for the process of growing, of leaving something incomplete, they help us to learn to let go, to rest, to accept, to find some peace finally. And thus growing a garden or a home is an ever evolving process, and at the same time with a grounding and peace bringing effect. We learn to live the process, instead of becoming blind while staring at the result. Understanding and creating a home is a lesson for life, where we can practise to give up perfectionism, to accept setbacks and where we can adapt humility, when things turned out beautifully in a way we haven’t ever expected or planned.

The NL3 writers and photographers were seeking out solace in the beauty of our homes, gardens & landscape, looking for the comfort and ease our homes are giving to us. At home we set the atmosphere for our lives, the rhythm of our days, we restore our human balance and emotions, far away from the hectic outside world. Our homes are our favourite places, full of items with a special meaning to us, secure places where we can relax and reenergize, a space where we never feel lost.

A home is like a vessel carrying memories. Especially old houses or those we have fond remembrances of, have voices, telling us intriguing stories about former dinners, owners, hours full of joy or tears or wonderful days still to come. A home can balance us with a deep sense of security, when we encounter it with a soft respect and understanding. Smell of wood, smoke of a fireplace, fading afternoon light, the evolving morning peace and quiet in the garden- we learn what the place is all about and why this now is our place and our home.

Home always is landscape as well, the one we derive from, the one we belong to or the one we found one day, instantly feeling at home….

Let us explore with our Nordic Writers and Photographers this magic home feeling….

Publisher & Creative Direction: Melanie Kettner
Creative Director: Thomas Kettner
Publication Design: Rowan Collins
Cover Photography: Norbert von Niman
Tree Hotel Front & Back Cover: www.treehotel.se/en/

Printed by Druckhaus Waiblingen
Remstal-Bote GmbH

The New Era Magazine is a new and beautifully crafted print publication focusing on Scandinavian interiors, design, art and craft. In the first issue they visit the homes of a number of nordic creatives such as the celebrated artist Anton Alvarez, the architect Andreas Martin-Löf and interior designer Lotta Agaton.

They portray a modern farm inspired by the sustainable timber dwellings of the Sea Ranch community in San Francisco and a stunning forest retreat built entirely of wood.

After a year coloured by lockdowns and travel restrictions the first issue of TNE also explores design in a time of crisis and trends and tendencies to be expected ahead.