SKYNKE Carrier bag, red/black, 45x36 cm

The 10 Swedish Designers group started in Stockholm in 1970, and their graphic, bold and playful patterns still feel relevant today. When the group stopped in 2015, IKEA acquired this fantastic patterns treasure to be able to spread them around the world. The graphic dots of Ingela Håkansson-Lamm’s Ciao pattern and Tom Hedqvist's playful birds in the Kyoto pattern are two examples. Both Ingela and Tom were involved from the start and during all the years the group was active.

"The inspiration for the "Ciao" pattern comes from my childhood filled with dots: storybooks about girls in red dresses with white dots, dotted hair bands for my braids, curtains with blue dots and wallpaper with yellow ones. Dotted red-white oilcloth on the dining table, sandwiches with dotted sausages next to red cups with white dots. Even nature was full of dots, like red mushrooms with white dots and ladybugs with black dots!”