Arket launches a brand new collaboration with Swedish cult model Massproductions, to launch a collection of objects from its Little Issues assortment.
Initially introduced at Stockholm Design Week 2022, the collection of objects (which, in line with design director Chris Martin function ‘the principles plus some magic’) included on a regular basis necessities with a playful aesthetic twist.
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Out there from Arket are actually fashionable gadgets resembling Massproduction’s Buffer Bookend, the Common Door Wedge and the Silo Wine Rack in specially-developed colourways, plus a wool blanket made by Swedish mill Klippan that includes a sample referencing Massproductions’ first chair design, and a tote bag.
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‘We share a number of the identical values in terms of design: at Arket, our focus could be very a lot to create merchandise which can be the right model of themselves, and I strongly really feel that we share that with Massproductions the place each object has an excellent consideration to element and performance,’ says Ella Soccorsi, Head of Design and Artistic at Arket.
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Out there on arket.com and in chosen shops from 30 October 2025, the gathering encapsulates Arket’s spirit of sturdy, well-made design, and brings cult label Massproductions to a much bigger viewers.
The three merchandise chosen from the corporate’s vary characterize ‘smaller, typically neglected objects that we consider deserve some additional consideration,’ say Massproduction founders Magnus Elebäck and Chris Martin, who outline this collaboration as ‘actually symbiotic’. High quality and a spotlight to element have been on the coronary heart of the model since its inception, alongside a playful perspective to designing objects that lightly subvert the principles of home design.
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The gathering’s materiality additionally encapsulates each manufacturers’ numerous method to things: metal for the bookends (impressed by a railway buffer), rubber for the doorstopper (‘one thing I by no means knew I wanted till I noticed it in our first artistic assembly,’ says Soccorsi), wooden for the wine rack (its modular design is certain to suit any area and develop along with your wine assortment), and wool for the blanket. The objects are available in Massproductions’ distinctive illustrated packaging with illustrations that deliver the article to life.
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‘It was a simple “sure” when Arket invited us to collaborate: we aren’t solely admirers and prospects, but additionally neighbours on the island of Södermalm in central Stockholm,’ add Elebäck and Martin. ‘That made the challenge simpler to handle, however in all probability additionally meant that we now have comparable values when it comes to tradition, design, and outlook on what a product ought to embody.’
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