About Coolstockholm

Some of the hottest trends in fashion, film, design, art and music have their origins here in Scandinavia, on the roof of Europe. Cool Stockholm has been created by culture-vulture journalist David Bartal, together with Nizar Achmad, gourmet chef and major-league party animal

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Music Festival, Flea Market and Club

There’s a lot of good stuff taking place today in Stockholm, on Saturday May 30.
I want to catch a Swedish band called MFMB (video above), which is supposed to perform at 5:30 p.m. (…)

Edgy knives from outstanding designers

Twenty-two top designers from Scandinavia and other parts of the world have created new forms of the traditional curved knife used by the Sámi, the aboriginal people of northern Scandinavia. (…)

Poking around on a spooky boat wreck

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My friend Alex Farnsworth found a mysterious bag of bones last week on an abandoned boat on a small island on the south side of Stockholm. (…)

Anyone lost a urinal?

Perhaps it fell off the back of a truck. We found it, at any rate, on a leafy embankment below Västerbron, the bridge connecting the Stockholm islands of Kungsholmen and Södermalm. (…)

A place to play for small creatures

Dos Kids – Design Passion 2009 from Dos Family on Vimeo. (…)

Animated video invitation from Ljunggrens

FromMeToYou Trailer 1 from Vidiots on Vimeo. (…)

A bridge over gin-and-tonic waters

The Beefeater Design Challenge, a design competition the British gin producer has sponsored in Stockholm for the past three years, was won in 2009 by Louise Hederström of Malmö. (…)

Another crazy project from Finland

The guys behind the Star Wreck film spoof have a new movie project called Iron Sky under way which will also be released as a computer game. (…)

Stockholm’s art world soon poorer

Fans and friends of Stockholm’s Nationalmuseum—and there are many of us—were dismayed to learn last week about the plan to close the museum for nearly seven years, starting in 2011, in order to renovate and improve the historic building. (…)