The design duo of Prince Carl Philip of Sweden and Oscar Kylberg have designed landscape-like interiors for a hotel in a Swedish nature reserve, featuring their first own-label furniture collection.
The Bernadotte & Kylberg founders have created three unique suites at Arken, part of the Eriksberg Hotel and Nature Reserve in Blekinge, southern Sweden, which is Scandinavia’s largest safari park.
The scheme includes custom-designed furniture pieces that the duo have now released under their own lifestyle brand, also named Bernadotte & Kylberg.
The Eriksberg furniture collection features a bar cabinet, a writing desk and a chair, produced from solid oak wood, diabase stone and polished brass.
The three Arken suites take cues from different parts of the Eriksberg reserve, a 925-hectare park that is home to mouflon sheep, minks, wild boars and various species of deer.
The grey-toned Urberg suite refers to mountain landscapes, while the green-hued Skog suite is named after the Swedish word for forest. The third suite, the pale-blue Himmel, references the sky.
Bernadotte & Kylberg also set out the design palette for the other 23 rooms of the hotel, which feature matching colours and textiles to the suites.
“Eriksberg is a unique and beautiful place in Blekinge. It is an experience totally on nature’s own terms,” said Carl Philip Bernadotte.
“It is precisely this encounter with nature that we want to capture by blurring the boundaries between indoors and outdoors,” continued the prince.
Bernadotte & Kylberg designed many of the details in the three suites, including the textural, multi-tonal carpets that dictate the three different colour schemes.
The furniture, including beds, coffee tables and armchairs, was custom-produced by Älmhult-based manufacturer Specab. Bespoke lighting pieces were meanwhile developed with glass artists Simon Klenell and Rasmus Nossbring.
The duo also commissioned print designer Martin Bergström to design wallpaper for each suite, which he based on plants and other elements he collected on walks through the reserve.
Other standout details include the floor-to-ceiling tree-trunk columns in the Skog suite and the large boulders in the Urberg suite.
“We were tasked with creating and realising a total interior design vision,” said Kylberg, describing the ambition to reflect “the soul and natural diversity of Eriksberg”.
“We hope and believe that guests will enjoy the suites as much as we enjoyed creating them,” he added.
For the Eriksberg collection, Bernadotte & Kylberg have developed new colourways for the furniture pieces. The designs come in bold red or green finishes, as well as natural oak.
The diabase used for these designs was sourced from the Kullaro Stone quarry in nearby Skåne.
“The diabase stone quarried at Biskopsgården, in the northeastern part of the Swedish region Skåne, is truly unique, impressing not only with its rarity but also with its exceptional character and composition,” Kylberg said.
Prince Carl Philip is the only son of King Carl XVI Gustaf, and fourth in line to the Swedish throne.
He and Kylberg founded their Stockholm-based studio in 2012. They initially focused on product design, but started moving into interiors after being commissioned to create a suite at Sweden’s famous Icehotel.
They launched the Bernadotte & Kylberg design label in 2023, with a launch collection of scarves and blankets embellished with the B&K logo.
In an exclusive interview with Dezeen to mark the launch, the duo said that public scrutiny has kept them on their toes.
“We know that everything we do is going to be looked at more,” said Bernadotte. “In the first years, it took a lot of energy from us, but today it’s something that is just there,” added Kylberg.
As well as the Eriksberg furniture, Bernadotte & Kylberg have added a brass tealight holder called The Tulip to their own-label collection.
The photography is courtesy of the Eriksberg Hotel and Nature Reserve.
