Few Norwegian architects approached architecture with quite the same combination of clarity and poetry as Sverre Fehn. Throughout his career, Fehn designed not only buildings, but also the objects and furniture that inhabited them — often creating pieces specifically for a particular house, room or pavilion.

Now, Fjordfiesta is bringing a selection of these lesser-known designs into production for the first time. Developed in close collaboration with Fehn’s family and Fehn Forvaltningen, The Sverre Fehn Collection brings together furniture originally designed for three important moments in the architect’s career: the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1962, Villa Schreiner in Norway in 1963, and Villa Norrköping in Sweden in 1964.

Born in Kongsberg in 1924, Fehn studied at the Architectural School of Oslo before travelling to Morocco in the early 1950s and later working at Jean Prouvé’s studio in Paris. These experiences became part of a distinct architectural language — one that balanced structure and material, light and space, the rational and the poetic. In 1997, Fehn was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

The Norrköping pieces offer a particularly quiet expression of this approach. Designed in 1964 for Villa Norrköping, a house conceived for a Scandinavian housing exhibition, the stool and table are reduced to their essential forms. Made from Norwegian pine, their construction is deliberately visible, with the joints and proportions becoming part of the design rather than being concealed.

The stool was designed to work both as a seat and as a small table, while the larger table echoes the geometry of the house itself. Villa Norrköping was organised around a central core of kitchen and bathrooms, with its plan forming a Greek cross. In the furniture, this idea of structure at the centre is translated into a simple, almost architectural construction.

More than reproductions of historical pieces, The Sverre Fehn Collection offers a rare opportunity to live with furniture that has remained largely private for decades — objects in which Fehn’s architectural thinking is present at a much smaller scale.

Produced by Fjordfiesta in Norwegian pine, the Norrköping 01 stool and Norrköping 02 table are quiet, tactile pieces made to be used, moved and lived with.