The current cruise ship design vogue for clean Scandinavian lines, pale colours and natural ambience prompted YSA Design’s Fabiana Vale Dornelas and LaCisha McMullen to join this year’s Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair – part of Stockholm Design Week in February.
Senior Interior Buyers, architects, designers and journalists from all over the world descend on Stockholm Design Week each February, and the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair is providing an ever-stronger draw as part of events running throughout the city.
YSA Design has increasingly sought to work with ‘greener’ materials, and these were certainly in abundance among around 700 exhibiting companies present, according to Senior Interior Architect Fabiana Vale Dornelas, who attended the February 5-9 Fair on behalf of YSA Design together with interior architect LaCisha McMullen. Fabiana has often attended the Milan Furniture Fair, but this was her first visit to the equivalent event in Sweden.
“The subtle use of muted colours, earthy tones and natural materials in Scandinavian design is super cool,” says Fabiana. “It creates a feeling of getting back to your roots and peace, as well as environmental responsibility.”
She adds that suppliers at the event were very attuned to growing market demand to verify that materials used are sustainable, especially as cruise ships push into more remote locations that include polar waters.
“Cruise guests today want to make sure that they are not harming nature in any way; they want to feel good and that they are playing their part in sustainability, and that’s something that comes through very clearly in Scandinavian design,” she says, adding that her visit had proved inspirational for a live cruise ship design project.
