Form/Design Center, Malmo travel tips and stories. Vacations ideas, cruises, spa and resorts

The Form/Design Center in Malmo, Sweden is a a meeting place for ideas in design and architecture. The center offer a big showcase of the very best contemporary Swedish and Scandinavian design. Every year over twenty exhibitions takes place featuring industrial design, crafts, furniture and textile design, architecture and urban planning, fashion, graphic design and illustration. The Form centre is also like an arena for the exchange of ideas between designers, the public, academic research and trade and industry.

Form/Design Center was established in 1964 and is run by Svensk Form (the Swedish Association of Crafts and Design). Svensk Form was created in 1845 and is the world’s oldest such association. The goal is to engage and educate about design and show its importance in our surroundings and our everyday life. Design matters to everyone.

In the Cafe you will find a large selection of Swedish and International design and architecture periodicals as well as teas, coffee and delicious cakes. In the shop you can buy the best of modern Scandinavian design. Form/Design Center is situated in the heart of Malmo by Lilla Torg square. The granary, in which Form/Design Center now stands, was erected in 1850 by local merchant Gabriel Hedman after whom the adjacent 16th century courtyard ‘Hedmanska Gården’ is named.