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ANKI GNEIB

Architect, MFA, MSA/SIR (Member of Sweden’s Architects/Sweden’s Interior designers’ National association)

In media she has been called “Sweden’s most international designer”. Still, Anki Gneib is so Swedish when designing for Arvesund. Anki’s box, made of old barn timber from northern Sweden, has confidence based on importance: it is naturally beautiful, solid, simple and useful. Just as immediate now as when it was launched in 2002. Actually, even hotter in the current recycling period! Many designers are following today.

Now it could be time for a new collaboration project. Arvesund has asked Anki Gneib to work out how the idiom of the barn houses could be introduced in the urban environment. And as regards herself, she would like to take the concept even further:

– It would be cool if you could present the houses outside in, that the fixed furnishing “breathes the house”, that every detail is consummate: banisters, switches, fittings, everything that is built in – a furnishing guide with design in harmony with the house, would show that Arvesund really cares, not to mention making the choice easier for the customer, of course.