Designer Interview – Monica Förster

March 1, 2019.Reading time 17 minutes.

Monica Förster by Camilla Lindqvist. V Söderqvist Blog interview.

Monica Förster is an industrial designer with an incredibly diverse portfolio. She has designed everything from the seat of a Volvo excavating machine and glow-in-the-dark toilet seat to some of the most recognizable interior objects and furniture in Sweden today. Förster is also one of our most international designers, collaborating with international companies from the […]

Designer Interview – Sophia Edstrand

January 24, 2019.Reading time 10 minutes.

Sophia Edstrand interview. V Söderqvist Blog.

Landing in Paris as an au pair to French jewellery designer Marie-Hélène de Taillac at the age of 18, Sophia Edstrand’s life journey would take many exotic turns. Her work with de Taillac would take her to India, a land that was a complete opposite to her native Sweden. It was while working for de […]

True Blue -The Art of Indigo Textiles

January 4, 2016.Reading time 7 minutes.

I fell in love with Indigo textiles when I lived in Japan and China. It is a gorgeous deep blue, and goes through an elaborate process of dyeing that has been used for thousands of years. It is said that the oldest Indigo dyeing centres was in India, making its way to the Greeks and Romans. […]