Stockholm’s largest resort has unveiled three suites designed by Carl Philip Bernadotte, higher referred to as Prince Carl Philip of Sweden, and Oscar Kylberg, that includes new furnishings impressed by the constructing.
The Bernadotte & Kylberg founders took cues from the angular structure of the Clarion Lodge Signal when designing the Stratum Suites, which main on reflective surfaces and angular geometries.
This 558-room resort was designed by Swedish architect Gert Wingårdh and in-built 2008. It has a definite pointed form and facades outlined by alternating stripes of granite and glass.
The Stratum Suites are positioned throughout the resort’s pointed ends, giving these rooms a triangular form.
“After we first got here in and noticed the sharp angles of the rooms, we realised this was going to be tough,” mentioned Bernadotte throughout a tour of the suites.
However the pair used the angles to their benefit, turning them right into a type language that supplied the premise for 5 items of custom-designed furnishings.
“While you take a look at the form of the constructing, the 2 triangles, that’s what made the form of our chair legs,” mentioned Kylberg. “It set the thought of how we needed to work.”
The Stratum Assortment features a desk, chair, coffe desk, armchair and couch, all boasting polished chrome particulars and diagonal geometries. Different components embody leather-based upholstery, glass and timber.
The designers got down to design the suites utilizing solely supplies and merchandise manufactured in Sweden, in a celebration of the nation’s sturdy manufacturing trade.
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As a nation identified for metal manufacturing, this led to the thought of lining the partitions with metal panels.
“It reduces the reflection once you use metal as an alternative of glass, so that you get a type of Kodak second,” Kylberg advised Dezeen. “The reflection makes the sunshine softer.”
“You’d suppose metal is chilly, however it really provides fairly a heat feeling,” he mentioned.
The reflective surfaces are fastidiously paired with textiles to create a visible stability. Every suite has its personal palette, impressed by the rooftop colors seen outdoors the home windows.
Suite 8 combines shades of chocolate brown with orange and pink highlights. Suite 9 is primarily monochrome, sometimes interrupted by comfortable pinks and greens, whereas Suite 10 balances comfortable blue-grey tones with pops of yellow.
Every suite incorporates a geometric-patterned carpet that recollects the herringbone motif of timber flooring in a lot of Stockholm’s outdated flats.
The bogs are lined with ceramic tiles textured to resemble textiles, harking back to a conventional canvas-textile wallpaper.
“All the things is Stockholm-esque,” Kylberg mentioned.
The Stratum Suites opened in December 2025 and are marketed as both bedrooms or enterprise suites. The designers hope the stability of supplies reinforces this sense.
“While you stroll in, increase, you get this view, however you additionally get the cosiness,” added Kylberg. “We needed it to really feel like an area the place you possibly can take a proper or casual assembly, reasonably than a convention suite.”
Prince Carl Philip is the one son of King Carl XVI Gustaf and is fourth in line to the Swedish throne.
Since founding the studio in 2012, he and Kylberg have slowly expanded from product design into interiors. After designing a room in Sweden’s Icehotel, additionally they designed three suites for the Eriksberg Lodge and Nature Reserve in southern Sweden.
In an unique interview with Dezeen in 2023, the duo mentioned that public scrutiny has stored them on their toes.
“We all know that every little thing we do goes to be checked out extra,” the prince mentioned within the interview. “Within the first years, it took numerous vitality from us, however as we speak it is one thing that’s simply there,” added Kylberg.
