Swedish artist/photographer Elisabeth Dunkel was finishing her masters’s in design when she began posting snapshots of daily delights: pine needles, paper dolls made with her kids, a collage of photo booth portraits, a pink cuckoo clock. Fine Little Day, as Elisabeth dubbed her blog in 2007, quickly attracted a lot of fans. And led her to start producing and selling some of her own prints and printed cushion covers. Finding too many hours of her fine little days spent packing orders, Elisabeth soon wanted out.
When she asked Ulrika Engberg, an entrepreneurial design school friend, to buy her business, Ulrika instead proposed teaming up. That was 14 years ago and together Elisabeth and Ulrika have grown Fine Little Day into a thriving housewares brand that celebrates, in Elisabeth’s words, “colors on the walls, patterns in every corner, and objects with actual personality.” They produce their own lines of posters, home textiles, and interior accents designed by Elisabeth and a stable of artists and makers. Their test lab is their showroom in a converted historic mill building outside of Gothenburg, Sweden. Join us for some browsing.
Photography by Elisabeth Dunker, unless noted, all courtesy of Fine Little Day (@finelittleday).
Fine Little Day wares are also available in boutiques around the world and from the brand’s online shop. The company is sustainability minded and tries to stick with natural materials. Its designs are produced by workshops all over—the blankets, for instance, are listed as “woven in the EU of Oeko-Tex Standard 100, Woolmark, and Wool Integrity NZ-certified New Zealand new wool.”
The Spinneriet building is located at 2 Spinnmästarevägen in Lindome, Sweden, just south of Gothenburg.
We recently spotlighted Elisabeth’s Gothenburg family apartment: see Making a Rental Your Own.
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