Style & Culture

48 Scandi-style interiors you will feel calmer just looking at

The world has gone wild - in a restrained, minimal, good-taste kind of way - for Scandi style. Here are our favourite examples of the mid-century movement, from Aarhus to Australia
Scandi style interiors
  • Shades of white driftwood as art painted checkerboard floorboards logs in a basket cute blond child so many classic...
    Ken Kochey

    Shades of white, driftwood as art, painted checkerboard floorboards, logs in a basket, cute blond child – so many classic Scandi style motifs at Jakobs of Gotland, a farmhouse to rent on the Swedish island.

  • Fireside statement seating at Ett Hem hotel in Stockholm, Sweden

  • Ken Kochey

    Who says you can't put a bed in front of a window? No one's sleeping anyway during Sweden's midsummer white nights. This is classic Scandi down-home style at Jakobs in Gotland, a farmhouse to rent on the Swedish island.

  • Øivind Haug

    Mid-century-modernism and classic Scandi-style colours at the ION hotel in Reykjavik, Iceland

  • Freya Mcomish/Scandinavia Standard

    Danish-design chair porn in Copenhagen's industrial-feel 108 restaurant

  • Playing with form and function at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm

  • Lounge area at Ett Hem hotel in Stockholm, Sweden

  • Line Klein

    The interior of Barr, a restaurant on Copenhagen's waterfront, set in the former home of Noma and developed by chefs Thorsten Schmidt and René Redzepi.

  • Matthew Buck

    So much Scandi layering in one corner! The Apartment store in Copenhagen.

  • Mellow wood panelling at Pärlans Konfektyr in the neighbourhood of Sofo, on the island of Södermalm, Stockholm

  • Erik Olsson Photography

    Corrugated iron walls, industrial lighting and sensational seating – much to love at Oaxen Krog & Slip restaurant in Stockholm

  • Matthew Buck

    There's a timelessness to Room 606 at the Radisson Collection Royal Hotel in Copenhagen, and not in a 'Shining' way.

  • Øivind Haug

    Salt & Brygga restaurant in Malmö, Sweden

  • Magnus Marding

    A bedroom at Ett Hem hotel, Stockholm

  • Matthew Buck

    A vintage cabinet at Copenhagen gallery Dansk Møbelkunst, which showcases Scandinavian furniture design from 1920 to 1975

  • Dividing space with string at boutique hotel SP34 in Copenhagen. And look at those chairs...

  • Hotel SP34 in Copenhagen

  • Ken Kochey

    Not how you'd imagine supper in a pigsty to look. Cookbook writer Ulrika Davidsson converted this barn on the Swedish isle of Gotland to hold healthy supperclub dinners throughout the summer. There's no menu, just whatever Ulrika has picked up from market or her garden that day

  • Magnus Marding

    Chaise longue, Scandi-style, at Ett Hem hotel in Stockholm

  • Øivind Haug

    Raw concrete and neon lighting at the Kolabrautin cocktail bar in Reykjavik

  • Matthew Buck

    On-trend brass, whitewashed floorboards and grey walls at The Apartment, an elegant 18th-century flat-as-shop in Copenhagen's Christianshavn neighbourhood

  • The conservatory at Ett Hem hotel in Stockholm

  • Øivind Haug

    Wicker pendant lights hang from the ceiling of the Northern Lights Bar at the ION hotel in Reykjavik

  • Only in Copenhagen: a cactus concept store, Kaktus Kobenhavn

  • Boutique hotel Nordlandet, on the Danish island of Bornholm

  • Øivind Haug

    White boards on the floor, the walls, the ceiling; at Gudrun & Gudrun shop in the Faroe Islands

  • Trend alert: map mural at Coffee Collective in Copenhagen

  • Crista Leonard

    Mid-century modern curves at urban menswear shop Han Kjøbenhavn in Copenhagen

  • A bedroom at the Grand Hôtel, Stockholm

  • Matthew Buck

    HAY in Copenhagen is like a Scandinavian Habitat, but miles better.

  • Øivind Haug

    Folksy style from head to toe at Geysir in Reykjavik, a shop with a high salvaged-wood content, which sells everything for the outdoorsy hipster

  • Unto Rautio

    Pretty Scandi prints at Kauniste in Helsinki, a shop selling textiles and homeware

  • Scandi-style design at Stilleben, run by Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts graduates Ditte Reckweg and Jelena Schou Nordentoft

  • Daniel Morgan

    Scandi-style finds a home in East London at The Culpeper hotel, with an Acapulco-style string chair and sheepskin throw

  • Not Copenhagen, but Brighton: pared-down style at The Set, the restaurant at Artist Residence hotel

  • Kara Rosenlund

    Cattle skull on black-painted clapboard, on Satellite Island, Tasmania, Australia

  • Carrie Beddall

    Ticking-fabric textiles and natural wood bring Scandi style to a bedroom at The Mash Inn in Buckinghamshire

  • Elise Hassey

    Wooden it be lovely – an all-natural island retreat on Satellite, Australia

  • Daniel Morgan

    Raw plaster and raw wood in a bedroom at The Culpeper hotel in East London

  • Kara Rosenlund

    Driftwood in the detail at Satellite Island hideaway, Tasmania

  • Øivind Haug

    Weatherbeaten vintage at Barbara Fish House in the Faroe Islands

  • A bedroom at Hotel Danmark, Copenhagen

  • Øivind Haug

    Where to buy your own Scandi style - Norrgavel furniture shop in Malmö, Sweden

  • Sleek copper and raw materials at St Pauls Apothek, in Denmark's hot-right-now second city of Aarhus

  • Matthew Buck

    English by name, Scandi by nature - Hotel d'Angleterre, a 200-year-old grande dame in the centre of Copenhagen

  • Alastair Philip Wiper

    Monochrome cuteness: Den Plettede Gris coffee shop on hipster hangout Paper Island in Copenhagen

  • Marie Louise Munksgaard

    All-white simplicity at Michelin-starred restaurant Kadeau, which showcases the natural produce of the island of Bornholm, Denmark

  • Matthew Buck

    Chopping boards by woodcraft guru Kim Dolva, sold at the furniture-making collective Københavns Møbelsnedkeri in Copenhagen

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