From a sensational sauna to a UFO bedroom: 10 amazing Swedish designs you won’t want to miss

When cutting-edge creativity meets fantastical landscapes, the results can be quite breathtaking … take a look at how Sweden is inspiring an architectural revolution

An MDF bookcase for £12,000? The jolting genius of design superstudio Memphis

The high-voltage style, comic-strip colours and eye-watering price tags of this Italian collective changed the world of design – what better place for an exhibition than modernist Milton Keynes?

10 of the best food markets in Sweden: anyone for smoked moose meat or cloudberry doughnuts?

A deli in Lapland and a trendy Gothenburg hangout are two perfect places to trawl for Swedish delicacies … but they’re just a taste of things to come for epicureans on a mouth-watering Scandi adventure

Launch of celebrity candles lights up – and cashes in – on lockdown gloom

It started with Gwyneth Paltrow’s vagina candle; now Alicia Keys, Anthony Hopkins and Drake have joined the trend

‘Let’s bring joy into the house as early as possible’ – why Britain is already celebrating Christmas

At the end of a truly difficult year, Christmas lights, trees and decorations are springing up, and even the shuttered shops haven’t slowed the present buying. What’s behind this race to begin the festive season?