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scandinavian grace: fine design with treats
earlier this year, on a side street quite close to one of the best blocks on park slope’s 5th avenue, a little home design shop opened up. and while 5th avenue does have a lot of great shops – other than matter which is a bit high end and esoteric – there are no real home stores of any merit. so i was happy to see the arrival of scandinavian grace, a small branch of a much larger shop (4,500 square feet) based in the catskills (must go visit that one) with another branch in williamsburg.
while the space is tiny, scandinavian grace does have a bit of everything for the home especially related to the kitchen and dining room. stocking only goods from denmark, sweden, finland, iceland and norway, the shop has a nice range of accessible, somewhat affordable and attractive items. some of my favorites included danish pitchers by stelton pictured above, cute bicycle baskets by design house from stockholm which i have been coveting for a while, 50s retro towels by almedahls and dishware by a finnish company iittala also pictured above. and while they of course carry the ubiquitous marimekko, the shop plans to show new collections of other designers on a regular basis.
scandinavian grace is also offering some tasty scandinavian treats. when i visited, they had a tosca cake, a kind of pound cake with more butter and almonds and is also heavy on the eggs, and i especially liked the kladd cake, which was a super sticky chocolate cake. scandinavian grace also serves coffee and other drinks, and when i walked by this past weekend it looks like they have also added some tables to make it a real leisurely shopping experience. while not everything in the shop is unusual or even hard to find, at least for those of us in the slope it’s nice to have these scandinavian wares close by. scandinavian grace, 167 n. 9th street at bedford avenue, brooklyn, new york, .
update: the park slope shop closed sometime this summer unfortunately for us.
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This looks great. My dishes are from Design House Stockholm, and I love their wares!
Wow, there is such a wonderful grace to all things Scandinavian. I wouild really like to get something of this kind of feel in the kitchen I have been designing for my wife and me for entirely too many years now. I don’t know if I will ever succeed in this, but I certainly mean to try! Thank you for sharing these concepts.