Wallpaper City Guide Stockholm, 2010, opaginerat förord.
The ubiquitous white tabletops, clean seating areas and tealight ambience has been updated and many commercial interiors have taken on individual, experimental and altogether more fun undertones. The locals themselves, with their well-spoken English, zest for life and love of travelling, have recently taken all these foreign influences to heart. Yet amid all their enthusiasm is a strong sense of self-awareness. Stockholmers have an incredible quality of never taking things too far. Whether it’s in design, architecture, fashion or catering, Swedes just seem to achieve the ideal balance. They’ve even got the perfect word for it, lagom, which means ‘just right’.
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