Newsletter · 10 Oct 2026
Skjulet Surf Bar, Aeschylou - Trikoupi, and the Coat Hook (Small)
Two new features this week: a surf bar on the Swedish coast and a restored corner building in Nicosia. To close, the smaller of our two hooks.
New editorial · Architecture
Skjulet Surf Bar
Dahlberg Busnardo · Öland, Sweden
On the west coast of Öland, the island Swedes call the Island of the Sun and the Wind, a 1960s ice cream kiosk has served for decades as an open-air bar for the surfers drawn to the strait between Mörbylånga and Kalmar. Dahlberg Busnardo didn't replace it. They continued it, with a simple timber-frame extension that holds an insulated kitchen and a sheltered place to gather, so the bar can stay open whatever the weather does.
It is built from ordinary things: red-painted Fjällpanel, the profiled board of Swedish barns and summer houses, a bitumen felt roof and horizontal timber shutters. In summer the shutters filter the sun; out of season they close the building entirely, leaving a compact red volume among the wind-shaped pines and juniper. Photography by Mattias Dahlberg.
New editorial · Architecture
Aeschylou - Trikoupi
Anastasiou Misseri · Nicosia
A listed three-storey building from the 1920s at the apex of a triangular block in the walled city of Nicosia, its rounded façade turning the corner where two streets meet. The restoration starts from one decision: the building keeps the uses it was built for. There is still a shop on the ground floor, with a home on the two floors above.
Stone walls, timber shutters and the original staircase were repaired using traditional techniques, and the clay floor tiles were remade by hand to the original patterns. The one real addition sits on the roof terrace: a light dining room clad entirely in zinc, which reads clearly as new rather than imitating what it joins. Photography by James Retief.
In the shop · In stock
Coat Hook (Small) — € 47
It started as a shape sketched by hand on paper. The sketch was scanned and scaled, then laser cut from a single sheet of solid 4 mm stainless steel and bent at 45° into a resting place for a coat, a scarf, a bag or a hat. Every edge is deburred to protect your fabrics, and it is fixed to the wall with custom screws that tighten with an Allen key.
In stock and shipped within 1–2 business days.