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“It’s about everything from their production
in Sweden and carefully planned deliveries
to knowing that the products are durable
and can also be renovated in the future
to ensure long-term sustainability, from
an economic perspective as well.”
Maria Roijer
Chief Librarian at Rosengård Library
Collaborative space. Origo table, Neo Lite chair and D2 chair create
a flexible meeting space. Space storage unit frames the space.
The new Rosengård Library in Malmö is a welcoming
and safe meeting space for people of all ages.
Kinnarps’ mission was to create a cohesive, inclusive
and sustainable interior design solution with a broad
appeal to both younger and older people, as well as
families with young children and students.
Rosengård Library is located in a new three-storey
building at the centre of the city district. It’s accessible
and welcoming to everyone, with an open ground floor
that makes it easy to drop in for shorter or longer visits.
When the proposal to build a new library was first tabled
in the late 2010s, the old library – which occupied the
same site as the new one – was worn out, overcrowded
and poorly adapted to the way a modern library should
function. “Rosengård was already Malmö’s most visited
district library at the time, and we’d simply outgrown
the old building, both in terms of space and functions
for the citizens,” says Chief Librarian Maria Roijer.
The City of Malmö was very clear about its
sustainability requirements and wanted to reuse as much
of the existing interior design as possible. So an inventory
was taken at the start of the project to give Kinnarps
an idea of how many products could be used in the new
library, which renovation needs existed and which new
items of furniture were required in order to implement
the interior design concept. The requirement was for
all old and new furniture to comply with the same high
environmental criteria and carefully considered interior
Case: Rosengård Library
Reused meets new. The reused Trix sofa was upholstered in a warm red hue and, together with the newly produced
Tinnef and Curling tables, creates a harmonious place for reading, snugly screened off with the Space storage unit.