Kitchen of the Week: Frama’s Freestanding Components Made By Top-Drawer Swedish Cabinetmaker Kvänum
by Margot Guralnick
A decade or so ago, when Niels Strøyer Christophersen founded his celebrated Copenhagen design firm, Frama, he used his living quarters in a restored 1905 watchmaker’s shop as a showcase for his studio’s work. Extolling natural, unpretentious materials, ease of use, and reverence for the old, Christophersen went on to created refreshingly simple elements for the home, including his own kitchen out of parts found on the street. It served as a model for Frama’s initial kitchens composed of freestanding, wood-framed components.
“The first Frama kitchen was based on principles refined to their most essential,” explains the company. “The aim was to celebrate the essentials of cooking and being.” Frama has now taken its kitchen offerings to the next level: collaborating with Swedish cabinetmaker Kvänum, a century-old kitchen maker and supplier to the Swedish royal court, it offers Frama Modules by Kvänum, a line of kitchen components in two wooden frames.
Photography courtesy of Frama.
Frama’s Kitchen Modules in Ginger
Above: Christophersen describes the new line as “traditional craft meets Frama’s distinctly straightforward aesthetic.”
The modules are made of birch, here stained a warm hue they’ve dubbed Ginger, with milled stainless steel pulls.
Above: The freestanding wooden components are offered with stainless steel or stone countertops. They’re paired here with Frama’s customizable Shelf Library system and stackable Ceramic Tableware. The appliances are all by Miele.
Above: “Without the need for mounting to walls or floors, ultimate flexibility was the practical point of inspiration,” writes Frama.
Above: A sideboard offers flexible open and closed storage and can also work elsewhere in the house. Frama’s offerings now range from tables and chairs to towels and perfume. “Most of my work has been about asking what is the least I could fill it with, and removing things, stripping them back,” Christophersen told The Modern House journal.
Frama’s Kitchen Modules in Chestnut
Above: Frama notes that its kitchen designs were originally created for urban settings but look equally at home in the countryside. These examples are made of stained birch in a color called Chestnut.
Above: All of the modules are freestanding pieces of furniture. The countertops here are Jura Beige limestone.The stainless steel shelves are from Frama’s Shelf Library system.
Above: The faucet is the Tara Mixer by Dornbracht and that’s Frama’s signature Hand Wash. The brushed aluminum Tasca Table and oiled pine Bracket Chair are also by Frama.
Above: Kvänum gets the hidden details right.
Above: Kvänum makes the Frama Modules to order and ships internationally.
Here’s Frama’s former kitchen system, pop-up in Brooklyn, and 2024 Rivet collection of Shiny Aluminum Shelves and Side Tables.
Three other sides of Kvänum:
- Kitchen of the Week: A Hushed Old-World Swedish Design
- A Classic English Kitchen in a Grand Copenhagen Remodel
- Steal This Look: A Dream Dressing Room from Sweden
N.B.: This story originally ran on October 17, 2024 and has been updated.
10 Easy Pieces: Bedding in Shirting Stripes
by Alexa Hotz
The stripes gathered here owe more to the shirtmaker than to traditional mattress ticking. Think of Charvet, the Paris institution founded in 1838, and its near-infinite variations on cotton shirting: pencil lines, balanced bands, and unexpected combinations of color. Today’s bedding makers have adapted that vocabulary to crisp cotton percale. Here, 10 sets with the orderly appeal of a well-made shirt.
Above: In recent years, Danish brand Tekla has popularized percale striped bedding. Shown here is the Percale Duvet Cover in Flint Stripes; $230-$455 at Tekla.
Above: The Organic Crinkled Percale Sheet Set from Coyuchi is available four different stripe variations (shown here is Indigo Stripe) for $248.
Above: Korean brand Papiyot makes the French Blue Stripe Button Duvet Cover and the French Blue Stripe Mattress Box Cover.
Above: The Christy Calder Stripe Bundle Sheet Set comes in pink (shown) or blue; prices start at $165.75 to $208.25 at Christy.
Above: Magniberg makes the ultimate in striped bedding: the Wall Street Duvet Cover in Oxford is a patchwork of various stripe patterns; prices start at $198 for the duvet set.
Above: The Aiayu Duvet Set and Pillow Case in Mix Dark Wheat starts at €148; it’s also available in two shades of blue stripes.
Above: From Ever Lasting, the Arthur Pinstripe Bedding Set comes in brown or black, both with red piping; $239.
Above: The only option on our list that isn’t cotton, Nordic Knots’s Linen Blend Sheet Set comes in a striped set; prices start at $880 for the 5-piece set.
Above: The Percale Sheet Set at Parachute comes in four shades of stripes; $264-$324 at Parachute.
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