Floral healing!

The traditional Japanese art of arranging flowers, Ikebana, is the inspiration for the spring collection. Where Western florists often focus on the amount of flowers, practitioners of Japanese flower art choose to work with less things but in harmony and peace. Beautiful color combinations, clean lines and the aesthetic interaction between vase, flowers, stones and nature elements are the base. Our designer Marita Lord has combined Scandinavian design with Japanese culture in our spring collection named Floral.

Visit our website www.cultdesign.se for more products and spring inspiration.

Our cover star for this March issue of Scan Magazine is a breakout name in interior design. Marie Olsson Nylander’s renovation of Palazzo Cirillo – a gorgeous, 300-year-old pink mansion in Sicily –sparked a national obsession with faded Italian grandeur, fluffy rugs and Nylander herself. In our exclusive interview, we dive into her unconventional interior design universe, and set the stage for an issue brimming with Nordic art and culture.

This issue features a deep dive into Sweden’s exhilarating culture scene, an adventurous Finnish travel guide, and fascinating profiles with modern pioneers and traditional artisans of Norwegian craft and design. We’ve sought out the Nordic regions’ most exciting events in our March Culture Calendar, while the Fashion Diary is bursting with spring trends. Elsewhere, we speak to TRUENORTH, the Icelandic film and TV production studio behind an eye-watering number of blockbusters and series, from No Time To Die and True Detective to the much-anticipated original series Sturlungar –rumoured to be “The Godfather of Nordic Noir”.

And for tips on where to unwind after it all, our Best Of guide is packed with hotels and restaurants that you’ll be writing home about on your next holiday in Scandinavia. I hope the interviews and profiles in this issue of Scan will ignite your imagination and encourage you, as it did us, to delve into hidden corners of the Nordic cultural landscape.

Lena Hunter, Editor