Alma

Recognizing the growing need for new forms of working spaces and collaborative environments, Alma is opening its doors on Nybrogatan 8 in Stockholm.

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Recognizing the growing need for new forms of work space and collaborative environments, Alma opened its doors on Nybrogatan 8 in Stockholm in December 2016.

A space for work and play, Alma was founded for the sole purpose of nurturing creative people and their ideas.

The building, which for many years was home to Beckman’s School of Design, has been reimagined together with a group of architects and designers who have created furniture and products specifically for the house, all brought together by Alma’s Creative Director Fredrik Carlström and General Manager Anna Behring Lundh.

Architectural firm Tham & Videgård helped us bring our concept to life and also designed desks, tables and benches commissioned throughout the house.

They also designed the signature ceiling lamps w171 alma which are produced by Wästberg and won “Best Lighting” at the 2017 Stockholm Furniture and Lightning Fair.

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Head chef Petter Nilsson, recently returned from a 15 year exile in France running La Gazzetta in Paris andLes Trois Salons in Uzès is a well-known name on the international avant-garde cooking scene and a chef with proven pedigree.

Always a fan of concise menus, this particular list of dishes comprised of a look and feel very much in keeping with Swedish culture.

Finely riced potato covered a mound of creamy, salt-sweet herring and leek, every mouthful of which made my palate sing, Simple, but a winner.

Nutty little rosemary potatoes and red shallots sweated until sweet were served alongside the meat on a rustic plank, the perfect foil for such a standout piece of beef.

This insider knowledge really brought each mouthful to life, and the staff at Spirit Museum advised us with charm and style.

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At Alma, a five-story members club and collaborative workspace in Stockholm, founder and creative director Fredrik Carlström distilled that recipe down to something more elemental.

“My job is to make it hard,” says Carlström.

“Hire the best architects.

Like his native Nordic city, Carlström’s approach smacks of the less-is-more ideology—a notion he introduced stateside with the multibrand shop Austere, in L.A., and the popular East Hampton boutique hotel the Maidstone.

Designed by Carlström and Swedish architects Tham & Videgård, it’s kitted out with custom furniture and objects such as solid-ash tables and benches, and a mobile light installation by Danish artist Kasper Friis Kjeldgaard.

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Residents flock here for a delectable marriage of Italian, French and Swedish food.

In 1954 Stellan Åström designed and opened a café and hired a young Polish woman to work there.

More than 60 years later Magdalena, who became Mrs Åström, still comes in each week to bake an array of traditional Swedish pastries.

The superlative brew here is sourced from Lund-based Love Coffee Roasters; modest but excellent food completes the offering.

Few patrons take their coffee to go: the atmosphere is as much of an attraction as the black stuff.

Welcome to Alma | Hospitality for ideas

Recognizing the growing need for new forms of work space and collaborative environments, Alma opened its doors on Nybrogatan 8 in Stockholm in December 2016.

A space for work and play, Alma was founded for the sole purpose of nurturing creative people and their ideas.

The building, which for many years was home to Beckman’s School of Design, has been reimagined together with a group of architects and designers who have created furniture and products specifically for the house, all brought together by Alma’s Creative Director Fredrik Carlström and General Manager Anna Behring Lundh.

Architectural firm Tham & Videgård helped us bring our concept to life and also designed desks, tables and benches commissioned throughout the house.

They also designed the signature ceiling lamps w171 alma which are produced by Wästberg and won “Best Lighting” at the 2017 Stockholm Furniture and Lightning Fair.

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Conceived as a space for work and play, Alma—which was founded by Stockholm native Fredrik Carlström (who is also behind Austere, the design store in Los Angeles)—is located in Nybrogatan 8, the former home of Beckmans College of Design.

As for the facilities, Alma comprises a grand atrium, dedicated work areas, meeting rooms, a studio, communal and private dining spaces, and an outdoor terrace.

Photos by Emil Fagander courtesy of Alma Meanwhile, in Copenhagen, a circa-1840 courthouse designed by Danish architect M. G. Bindesbøll is now Nomad Workspace, a colorful, full-service coworking space in for freelancers and small businesses.

Inspired by hip hospitality outposts like the Ace Hotel and Soho House, Nomad includes a photo studio, meeting rooms, a cafe, and both open and private offices.

The founders enlisted interior designer Natalia Sanchez to resurrect and transform the old building into a contemporary and dynamic space that combines warm colors, patterned fabrics, luxe materials, and furniture from up-and-coming Danish designers—as well as pieces custom-made by Natalia.

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The Swedish architects transformed the buildings, once home to Beckmans College of Design, with dark walls and custom furnishings to make the creative space called Alma.

"We have have used solid materials, and quality in each instance, avoiding gimmicks and more temporary design solutions," Alma co-founder Fredrik Carlström told Dezeen.

In a similar vein to the global members club network Soho House, Alma provides a mixture of working and socialising spaces for its card-holders to network.

In addition, Alma is home to a shop, Austere, an outpost of a concept store founded by Carlström in New York in 2014.

Other pieces in the space include a mobile light installation designed for the atrium by Kasper Friis Kjeldgaard, a sofa by Carlström and Erik Järkil, and tableware by ceramist Richard Palmquist.

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Indeed, Lundh and Carlström are themselves a case in point – the Alma co-founders worked together at the advertising agency Graceland Stockholm in the late 90s, and embarked on other various other ventures prior to developing Alma.

Another partnership that has emerged from Alma is New Material, an architecture and design studio that is dedicated to creating retail and hospitality spaces.

‘I started it with Nathan Warkentin who did the graphics for Alma,’ Carlström tells me.

Then when we needed graphic design for Alma, I called Nathan.’

Carlström sets the example with Austere, a design and concept store he founded and physicalized in Stockholm for the first time as the only part of Alma open to the public.

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Gamla Stan, Stockholm’s Old Town, is colourful and cobbled, with Viking graffiti and cosy pubs; Victorian Östermalm is highly cultured, and hip Södermalm has vintage stores and cute spots for a fika (coffee and a cake).

Original art deco elements match modern Scandi pieces from Koncept, Gubi and Sika-Design, and vintage film screenings and jazz bands add to its jaunt-back-in-time feel.

He’s behind the Karolinska Institut, Sven Harry’s Art Museum, and the bones of hip hotel Miss Clara.

Not to be confused with Webhallen computer shop’s Portal-themed café, newly opened eatery Portal Restaurant, headed up by chef Klas Lindberg, is one of the city’s hottest lunching spots.

The Nordic Museum houses folk fabrics and Scandi furnishings, and has a delightfully eerie floor displaying fetishes, ceremonial tchotchkes and a traditional wooden fisherman’s cabin.

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In a bid to unite Sweden’s creative crowd, Fredrik Carlström – the man behind Scandinavian design store Austere in Downtown LA – has now launched Alma, a Stockholm-based members’ club and co-working space that is fittingly housed in the former campus of the city’s celebrated Beckman’s design college.

Called Alma – in reference to ‘alma mater’ and the Latin word for ‘nourishing’ – the five-storey venue will host events, workshops and exhibitions alongside a series of office spaces and conference rooms for hire.

Interiors by local architecture firm Tham Videgård are bound to inspire creativity, with bespoke furnishings by Erik Järkil and a light installation by Danish designer Kasper Friis Kjeldgaard in the dining space.

Alma is also home to Austere’s first European outpost, bringing its ‘a magazine you can walk through’ retail philosophy across the Atlantic.