“At age five or six, my favorite pink carpet was replaced by gray flooring, and I remember how the room’s energy died,” Tekla Severin (aka Teklan) recalls. “It was the first time I unconsciously understood what color and texture could do for a space. Later, I recreated that pink carpet in my bedroom.” So began Teklan’s now illustrious career as a photographer and designer who specializes in chromatic play. The Swedish colorist’s latest collaboration is “A Box Within a Box,” a Stockholm Furniture Fair booth for Elettra de Pellegrin’s acoustic-products company, Slalom. “I wanted to balance the more neutral tones of Slalom’s acoustic panels, such as Bloom and Woody, with my typically bold approach to color,” Teklan says. “I focused on creating that magical intersection between two- and three-dimensional perceptions, working with layers, drawing inspiration from labyrinths and tiles.” She also designed a brand-new pattern for the company: Arlecchino, a printed felt alternating sky-blue diamonds with mustard-and-black-striped ones.
“A Box Within A Box.”
Tekla Severin (Teklan).
Arlecchino.