TypeO Loft in Sweden is designed for the “new regular” of journey
Artistic studio TypeO has opened the doorways to a shoppable guesthouse in southern Sweden the place these cautious of holidaying throughout a pandemic can calm down in seclusion.
The loft is positioned on the agricultural outskirts of the picturesque city of Ystad. It takes over the second ground of a 19th-century farmstead that TypeO‘s founders, Micha van Dinther and Magnus Wittbjer, have used as a residence and workplace for the previous 5 years.
Enclosed by timber and grassy hillsides, TypeO Loft is supposed to be a chilled retreat the place friends can vacation away from crowds – an expertise that the studio’s two founders say is vital in a world that is been “turned the other way up” because of the coronavirus pandemic.
“Proper now, journey is usually related to lots of unease,” Van Dinther defined. “We need to provide our friends a possible various – a protected area, should you like.”
“[The loft] is a secluded one-room, slow-living mattress and breakfast the place friends are invited to take a break from the expectations and calls for of the each day grind with out having to be surrounded by different travellers,” he continued.
“TypeO Loft is about experiencing a special type of luxurious, the posh of silence, serenity, seclusion and taking the day because it comes,” added Wittbjer.
The 50-square-metre loft sleeps simply two folks and is host to a bed room, kitchen and lounge, that are nestled beneath the uncovered beams of the farmstead’s pitched roof.
Every space has been dressed with merchandise which might be out there to buy in TypeO’s on-line retailer, in case friends need to introduce them into their very own properties on return from their journey.
“We selected to make the entire objects, items and furnishings items out there to friends as an extension of our webstore – a strategy to invite them to step into our aesthetic universe and reside with the items, strive them out,” Van Dinther advised Dezeen.
“We imagine it creates an genuine and profound expertise that no conventional retail idea or showroom can ever provide – with that mentioned, we really feel that it is very important by no means push merchandise on folks,” he continued.
“Now we have chosen all of them personally for various causes: for his or her magnificence and performance, for the way in which they have interaction our senses or for the way in which they instigate on a regular basis rituals that we are able to join with one another by means of.”
Merchandise being showcased embody the linens on the loft’s king-sized mattress, that are from bedding model Learn The Label.
Within the kitchen, which options customized pale-timber cabinetry, there’s additionally glassware from Studio Vit, tableware by Hasami Porcelain and a number of cast-iron pots and pans from Skeppshult.
The adjoining lounge has a few leather-based slouchy chairs that sit on a gray patterned rug. A eating desk has additionally been positioned beside the loft’s full-height entrance window in order that, throughout meals, friends can take pleasure in views of the encircling panorama and native wildlife.
Surfaces all through the loft, together with these within the rest room, have merely been painted off-white or washed with concrete in an try to keep away from any ornamental options which might be “merely extra”.
TypeO Loft joins a rising variety of shoppable vacation spots. Others embody The McKinley Bungalow, a rental house in Montauk that Studio Robert McKinley has stuffed with objects from its founder’s favorite design manufacturers.
There’s additionally Items Residence, an Airbnb in Maine that artistic company An Aesthetic Pursuit has dressed with furnishings from its personal collections.
Images is by Mike Karlsson Lundgren.