Welcome
Vardagsbruk wishes to inspire you to joyful gatherings with modern and handy utilities for your ready made table.
Swedish design stands for values like high quality and well through-out functionality, as well as appearance. Vardagsbruk is a designing company which possesses great skill about the design process, material and manufacturing.
Behind each object there is a conviction that each and every one should have functional things in which they have a personal relationship and to enrich their everyday life. Things get their own life by becoming companions through life, and by their individuality they have not only a function, but they become a special part of our traditions in a set as well as alone – durable for generations
The Symbol
The unique flower, called Sjustjärna, has inspired us to use it as the symbol for Vardagsbruk. Skogsstjärna (“Star of the Forest”) as it is also called, is unique with its seven uniform petals. Each petal represents to us a weekday in the everyday life for all eternity.
Gustav Kristensson
Gustav Kristensson is a leading designer who has a degree from High School of Design and Arts, Gothenburg and a pottery exam at Östra Grevie, Sweden. He is awarded with If Design Award and is honoured with “Excellent Swedish Form”. Earlier production designed by him is found within many different branches and trademarks, among other Scandinavian eyewear. In 2009 Gustav Kristensson started Vardagsbruk AB.
One Moment’s Reflection
The story about Vardagsbruk begins over 30 years ago at the fishery of Ida Kristensson, in a little place called Barsebäckshamn (about 3.5 kmnorth of Malmoe). Ida’s grandchildren, Gustav and his three brothers and sisters often came to visit their grandmother. They played in the big garden which always had plenty of vegetables and flowers, and helped their grandmother to weed and to pick the fruit. When finished working, grandmother Ida had always purchased fresh-caught plaice or codfish from the local fisherman in the harbour and the children were then served a scrumptious meal.
At grandma Ida’s there was also lots of pottery which she had received from her good friend Albert Elfstrand, a potter she had gotten to know earlier in her life. There were cups, plates, candles and crawfish plates – an immense quantity of exciting goods that made quite an impression on the children as they enjoyed their meals. The colours, the forms and the feel in the material inspired young Gustav.
Grandma Ida often used the cups for everyday purposes, but some goods were only brought out for special occasions; for example the candle, which had its place on the Christmas table every year, or the crawfish plate for the Crawfish Party.
From the reflection and memory of all the special moments family and friends spent together using this pottery; an idea grew that formed the basis of Vardagsbruk.
Gustav Kristensson founder of vardagsbruk AB
Press Release
This year’s Form 2010 Prize for beautiful article for every day use
For the sixth time share Residence magazine the prestigious Residence form prize. The prize for this year’s utility goods to be attended to HALF PAST SEVEN by Gustav Kristensson for Vardagsbruk.
Jury statement: A CERAMIC FRIEND ON THE TABLE, sober and commonplace in the spirit. The receptive language of form in the tea and coffee sets Half past seven, is durable for the eye and connects back to 1950 century wise staple, which Höganäs tableware and Hertha Bengtson Boil blue for Rörstrand. But the surface ”lathe stripes” and the little square handles give a subtle touch of high tech. Nice.
Petter Eklund for Residence
The designer Gustav Kristensson in Lund, Sweden has designed everything from eyeglasses for scandinavianeyewear to cutlery for Boda Nova. 2009 he started Vardagsbruk.
- I have always looked at everyday objects as a companion through life that you have a personal relationship with. The thoughts of all the moment’s friends and family gathered and used these objects inspired the ideas that became the basis for Vardagsbruk.