Nu är designveckan 2019 i full gång här i Stockholm och ett event som jag redan hunnit besöka är Emma Blanche och Fredrik Färgs utställning i Emmas familjehem sedan fyra (!) generationer. Vi pratar om en varsamt bevarad fastighet på Bondegatan på Södermalm, ursprungligen en knäckebrödsfabrik med bostadsvåning ovanpå, där designduon visar sina nyheter i härliga installationer: "In 1867 a young man walked 621 kilometres from the south of Sweden to Stockholm together with his older brother to find a better future. In the capital the 21 years old Julius Westerdahl starts baking bread. Later circumstances and his skills in the trade takes him to Russia where he works as a baker in the Russian army during the brutal war against Turkey. Dire circumstances in the field forced him to develop a unique method to ferment bread with ice. He brings the secret recipe with him when he once again walks to Stockholm – this time all the way from Russia over Finland and the frozen waters of Östersjön. Back in the capital he earns great success making a new kind of flat bread based on his secret. The delicious bread and a sense for business made Julius a very rich and prominent man. Julius used some of his fortune to erect a magnificent building for his home and cripsbread factory, in the middle of Södermalm in 1889, at Bondegatan 21A in Stockholm. A building that to this day has housed his family and partly became a foundation in 2010. It is called Julius Hus." En magisk upplevelse som jag varmt kan rekommendera. Men se till att boka en plats innan ni går dit! Inslag från Julius hus speglas i Färg & Blanche:s design; till exempel genom golvets stjärnparkett som plockats upp i det nya bordet. Dessutom får jag passa på att gratulera Färg & Blanche som i går fick utmärkelsen Årets designer på ELLE Decoration Swedish Design Awards 2019!
