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Nordic Wellness

Styles

29 March 2023


In partnership with IKEA.

In Finland, as in Sweden and Norway, wellness is second nature. Praised for thousands of years, the self-care rituals of the Nordic sauna are today experiencing a creative bubbling, driven by designers and care addresses in tune with the times.

 

Nordic care is enjoying a new golden age. At IKEA, the sauna ritual is being celebrated in a collaboration with Marimekko. This limited edition of vibrantly patterned furniture, glassware and textiles embodies the simple beauty of Nordic nature. Fashionable saunas and resorts also celebrate the contemplation of nature (Soria Moria, Big Branzino, Heit Sørfjorden, Ästad Vingård, Yasuragi).

 

Relax, recharge and take care of yourself.

  • Region

    NORDIC COUNTRIES

  • INSPIRATION

    SAUNA

  • PROFIT

    WELLNESS

  • PRINT

    RHUBARB & BARK

WITH BASTUA, IKEA & MARIMEKKO OFFER A PIECE OF NORDIC HAPPINESS, WITH OR WITHOUT A SAUNA…

Collection BASTUA par IKEA x Marimekko

After VARMBLIXT, its collection of lighting and decorative accessories designed with Sabine Marcelis, IKEA, a key player in the field of home well-being, is continuing its collaboration with other Nordic designers. With BASTUA (from the Swedish word bastu, meaning sauna), its latest collaboration released in March, IKEA combines its expertise in furnishings and home décor with the colourful and iconic prints of Marimekko. The two brands’ designers have combined their talents to create furniture, glassware and bath textiles inspired by nature and the Finnish summer.  

BASTUA Collection by IKEA x Marimekko

This limited edition puts Nordic skincare rituals in the spotlight in a purely hygge cocooning spirit. A dreamlike collection that brings well-being and joie de vivre into the home.

Collection BASTUA par IKEA x Marimekko

BASTUA Collection by IKEA x Marimekko

Collection BASTUA par IKEA x Marimekko

« The pattern of the BASTUA collection is inspired by the large rhubarb leaves that often grow near the sauna cabins in Finland. To look at or to eat, they offer a unique spectacle, » explains Maija Louekari, designer at Marimekko.

When the sauna offers

a view of the fjords

Sauna on the Stockholm archipelago by Matteo Foresti © TBC

The great return of self-care, advocated for thousands of years by the Scandinavian countries, resonates particularly with the quest for well-being of the new generations. This need to take care of oneself has resulted in an architecture that is as close to nature as possible, with a proliferation of capsules and tiny homes set in the middle of nowhere.

Sauna Soria Moria, Norway © Feste Landscape/Architecture

This trend is no exception with saunas and spa cabins being set up on the shores of lakes and fjords. Floating on the water or nestled in the hollow of a steep hill, they offer a breathtaking view of the mountains and glaciers. The interior, dressed in wood, is an extension of the landscape. A rejuvenating treatment for body and soul.

Big Branzino sauna boat by sandellsandberg Arkitekter in stockholm.

Capsule sauna Heit Sørfjorden in Børve, Norway

Sauna Soria Moria, Norway © Feste Landscape/Architecture

Sauna on the Stockholm archipelago by Matteo Foresti © TBC

Sauna in the Stilleben Hotel in Sweden by Small Architecture Workshop

Sauna in the Stilleben Hotel in Sweden by Small Architecture Workshop

Wellness experiences in the heart of the elements and the rhythm of the seasons

Artic Bath Hotel in Swedish Lapland

Artic Bath Hotel in Swedish Lapland

In Swedish Lapland, there is a hotel that floats on water in summer and is surrounded by ice in winter. At the Artic Bath, cryotherapy and ice water swimming are practised and even favoured before the sauna. This holistic therapy is made possible by three spas arranged around an in-ground ice pool in the centre.

Artic Bath Hotel in Swedish Lapland

Solar Egg by Mats Bigert and Lars Bergström in Lapland

Solar Egg by Mats Bigert and Lars Bergström in Lapland

Multi-sensory immersion in Scandinavian nature

Hotel Ästad Vingård in Halland, Sweden

Hotel Ästad Vingård in Halland, Sweden

At the pinnacle of Scandinavian wellness, there is also the Ästad Vingård Hotel in Sweden. A place where you merge wonderfully with nature and its sounds and scents. Located in the heart of the Åkulla beech forest reserve in Halland, Ästad Vingård was conceived as a sound and sensory concept linked to the themes of water, forest and wind. The sounds recorded in the eco-system are played in Sinnenas Spa, a multi-sensory spa where all the senses are used: sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch.

Hotel Ästad Vingård in Halland, Sweden

Japanese spa

The Well Spa, Norway

Yasuragi, Japanese hotel-spa on the island of Värmdö, Sweden

So far apart geographically and yet so close in lifestyle, Japan and Scandinavia are brought together at Hotel Yasuragi. On the island of Värmdö, just half an hour from the centre of Stockholm, this peaceful retreat merges Japanese and Swedish spa cultures in an exceptionally relaxing and comforting setting.

Yasuragi, Japanese hotel-spa on the island of Värmdö, Sweden

Yasuragi, Japanese hotel-spa on the island of Värmdö, Sweden

Gaudian caves

GroHotel Sen in Senohraby, Czech Republic

Grotto Sauna by Partisans in Toronto

This revival of care is inspiring wellness institutions around the world. Everywhere, saunas are springing up in the heart of the landscape, recreating organic caves and caverns in symbiosis with nature. A return to the « Gaudyesque » roots that recalls the bio-mimetic architectural movement of Gaudí and Javier Senosiain.

Kosmos Hotel by The System Lab in South Korea

Sauna in the Gösta Serlachius Museum in Finland by Mendoza Partida and BAX Studio

Hotel Der Engel in Austria

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