Publication No.41

June does something to you. This week, I tried to put it into words. Welcome in. My weekly slow reading digital magazine. Enjoy!

Jun 14, 2026

It’s student season in Stockholm. The white caps appearing everywhere, the flower garlands, the trucks rolling slowly through the streets with a party crowds standing up in the back, singing songs they’ll remember for the rest of their lives. There’s something about this time of year that stops you mid-step. Makes you look up.

It’s impossible not to drift back.

To the moment you threw your own cap into the air and watched it disappear against a blue June sky. The feeling in your chest that particular mix of joy and longing and pure, unfiltered possibility. The dreams you hadn’t yet tested against reality. The freedom that felt endless and yours. And the friends standing right there beside you, the ones who knew everything about you without you having to explain a single thing.

I was lucky then. I’m still lucky now.

On Friday I gathered the people who were, and still are, there next to me. We settled in around the table and something just loosened, the way it only does with people you’ve known long enough that there’s no version of yourself you have to perform. The conversations went everywhere and nowhere. Hours passed. The “so what are your summer plans?” question didn’t arrive until well into hour four of dinner. Which tells you everything about an evening worth having.

What stayed with me, sitting there in the warm light, was the quiet realization of how much life has held since that June day. Things none of us could have imagined standing on those steps, caps on heads, the whole future still just a beautiful, terrifying feeling.

To all of it. Skål!

Location pin Stockholm. Home sweet home.

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7 days 7 looks

This week I reached for my green Destree jacket, brown denim jacket and white blazer…temperatures here are a little cooler than Miami. And styled my skirt as a strapless dress. I paired my white jeans with a ballet flat, then added a pair of truly candy-coloured shoes to the mix.

Note to self

TASTY RECIPIE.

With festive graduations and dinners in June, and midsummer coming up. I’m looking for recipes and food inspiration for the menu. Like this tasty tart with raw tomatoes on top of a smooth cream and crusty pastry. Perfect to serve on a warm day, when you feel like something light that carries the flavour of summer. Click here for the recipe.

BOOK RECOMMENDATION.

Coffee table book for the living room or a gift for someone special with big interest in the history of painting. The Secrets of Painting by Lachlan Goudie introduce…

“.. artworks created by the earliest humans to artists today, focusing on the technical inventions and turning points that at each stage have marked a new chapter in the history of art. Goudie knows from experience that masterpieces don’t emerge serenely from an artist’s studio. They are the result of a long tussle between dirty hands and crushed pigment, hog’s-hair brushes and linseed oil, rabbit-skin glue and pulverized chalk”

From techniques including ink, egg tempera, oil paint, canvas, watercolor to household gloss, acrylic, digital media and AI. Each chapter focuses on a technical turning point to understand the impact och importance of modern art. Get the book, here.

NEW ISSUE.

TIME Magazine is a recommended go-to global news magazine where award winning journalists guide you with analysis and insight into the latest developments in politics, business, health, science, society and entertainment. Get the ‘Ocean’ edition, here.

Art and objects

Things that caught my eye from a distance.

Copenhagen called — and design answered.

Every June, something shifts in Copenhagen. The city that already does restraint and beauty better than most becomes, for three days, something even more intentional. 3 Days of Design — this year 10–12 June — is not a trade fair in the conventional sense. Unlike Milan or NeoCon, which center around exhibition spaces and fairgrounds, 3 Days of Design is fully embedded into the city itself. Showrooms, heritage buildings, cafés, boats, galleries and private apartments all participate the whole city becomes the stage.

This year’s theme, Make This Moment Matter, felt genuinely earned. The festival’s CEO described it as a collective shift from “more” to “meaningful” — away from obsessing over the future of design, and toward what’s happening right now. After years of maximalism and concept overload at design weeks globally, Copenhagen offered something quieter and more grounding.

A few moments that stayed with me:

Fritz Hansen x Technics — Sound Club. Fritz Hansen turned its attention from objects to atmosphere, asking what a design exhibition could sound like. In collaboration with Japanese audio brand Technics, Sound Club explored how music, light and furniture combine to shape a space — inviting visitors to slow down and engage with design through listening as much as looking.

Georg Jensen — At Play. Creative director Paula Gerbase staged a games extravaganza on Højbro Plads inspired by summer traditions of play — walnut and sterling silver interpretations of classics, from ring toss to yo-yo — rooted in the house’s 121-year history of material honesty. On top of the wooden blocks were characters drawn from the folkloric stories of Georg Jensen as a boy, playing in the woodland outside Copenhagen. Playful, precise, and deeply Scandinavian in the best way.

Fredericia — A Chronicle of Danish Design. Travelling directly from its debut at Triennale Milano, this exhibition traces more than a century of Danish design through the lens of family-owned house Fredericia — iconic works by Borge Mogensen and Nanna Ditzel alongside contemporary pieces by Jasper Morrison and Cecilie Manz.

Since its debut in 2013, 3 Days of Design has grown from a small gathering of four brands into one of the most significant moments on the global design calendar for trend-setting, talent-scouting, and community. And yet, remarkably, it still feels human-scaled. You walk. You pause. You linger in a courtyard longer than planned.

That, perhaps, is the most Scandinavian thing about it.

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Days in June in the Swedish archipelago. Here is what I dream about this week. A casual summer wardrobe and sea-life details in every category for the table setting. I give you all links down bellow, for you who wish to add in cart.

Highlighting other women that inspire me

Every week I’m opening my inspiration folder for you.

A designer worth knowing.

There are accounts you return to not for the volume of content, but for the quality of thinking behind each image. Augusta Hoffman’s feed is one of those.

Based in New York, Augusta runs an interior design studio whose work sits in a rare place — deeply informed by tradition, yet never nostalgic in a hollow way. There is always something antique beside something quietly modern, always a textile that earns its place.

Looking through the images I’ve saved from her over the past months, a few things keep appearing: sheer café curtains hung low on tall windows, letting in light without giving anything away. Linen-slipcover sofas in warm, dusty tones — ochre, camel, sage. Coffee tables in dark, almost lacquered oak, styled with ceramic dishes, a single silver candlestick, a stack of books. Nothing performative. Nothing you couldn’t actually live with.

The Madison Avenue bedroom she posted recently the four-poster draped in a delicate floral cotton, the roman blind in the same fabric, brass swing-arm sconces — reminded me why pattern, when handled with restraint, is not decoration but architecture.

What I find most interesting about her work is the material board she shares occasionally: green marble against dark walnut, cream linen, white marble with grey veining. The decision-making is visible. You see how a room becomes itself, before it is a room.

She is one of those designers who makes you want to slow down and look more carefully. Which, if you are reading this newsletter, I suspect is exactly what you are here for.

Best of budget

A deep breath of Nordic air. Whether you heading off to the streets of ‘summer in the city’ pulse or more relaxing nature surrounding, let’s focus on airy fabrics, clean cuts, functional fashion, and quietly but confident close-up details. More or less… Cherry tomato-red rain boots, fitted city shorts, stone-inspired jewelry and knitted tops for every summer activity. Create a budget wardrobe and make it more playful, embodying the balance between minimalism, a defined pop of color (I choose red) and a chosen ‘personality’ in every detail. My curated budget options, from me to you.

Beauty

This week I give you my favorite go to palettes.

Hourglass Ambient Lighting Edit Unlocked. This palette is designed to diffuse, enhance and add radiance to your skin complexion. It maintain six bestselling shades (finishing powders, shades of blush, bronzer, and highlighter) all in one palette.
Tom Ford Runway Eyeshadow Palette. An eyeshadow palette in my bathroom featuring coveted shades in both powder and cream formulas. The lightweight, highly pigmented formula combines glitter, shimmer, matte, and demi-matte finishes.
Dior Backstage Glow Palette. This iconic multi-use highlighter, I truly recommend. The palette features four ultra-radiant highlighter and blush shades designed to enhance the face, eyes, and décolletage with a customizable glow.

Take a seat

Elderflower

There are certain things you learn not from a recipe but from watching someone else’s hands. My mother made elderflower cordial every June it was never a project, just something that happened, the way midsummer always happened: naturally, quietly, and with the particular smell of elderflower drifting through the kitchen for a few days.

This year I’m doing it myself. I’ve gathered the flowers and set aside time the way she used to. Most of it will become cordial — cold and sweet with sparkling water on a warm evening. But some of it will become snaps, which feels like a small grown-up addition to a childhood ritual.

There’s something about making things you watched being made. It doesn’t feel like learning. It feels more like remembering.

Elderflower cordial

Makes approx. 1.5 litres

20–25 elderflower heads, fully open
1 litre water
800 g sugar
2 lemons, sliced
50 g citric acid

Shake the flowers gently to remove any insects — don’t rinse them, you’ll wash away the fragrance. Bring the water and sugar to a simmer, stirring until the sugar has dissolved. Let it cool slightly, then add the lemon slices, citric acid, and elderflower heads. Cover and leave to infuse for 48 hours in a cool place.

Strain through a fine cloth or cheesecloth, pour into sterilised bottles, and refrigerate. It keeps for several weeks, or can be frozen.

Serve diluted with still or sparkling water, about 1 part cordial to 4–5 parts water.

For the snaps: same flowers, same patience — just swap the sugar syrup for a neutral spirit and let it rest longer. A few days minimum, a week if you can wait.

Take a seat. A taste of Sweden. Elderflower, “löjrom” with wiped smetana, and a strawberry pie.

You know you will always find my recipes in my latest book Till bords.

When in Stockholm

Lunch at Milles this week with my colleague and friend Malin at one of those Stockholm classics that never needs to explain itself. White tablecloths, dark leather banquettes, and bold brushstroke paintings covering the walls that somehow make the whole room feel looser, more alive.

This time of year there’s really only one thing to order: the salmon, with dill-creamed potatoes. A dish that tastes exactly like early Swedish summer should.

Milles, Strandvägen 1, Stockholm

Screenshots from my phone

Hope in Action — on Brilliant Minds 2026

Every June, Stockholm becomes something slightly different. For a few days, the city opens itself up to a particular kind of conversation urgent, searching, global. That gathering is Brilliant Minds, and this year’s theme feels more necessary than ever: Hope in Action.

I didn’t attend this year, but I followed it from a distance which somehow made the theme land even more quietly. Hope, the foundation writes, is not optimism. It is conviction. Not to simply imagine a better future, but to build one.

The speaker lineup included Grammy-winning artist and tech entrepreneur will.i.am, bestselling author Scott Galloway, Academy Award-winning actor and advocate Lupita Nyong’o, and former Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin. Alongside Brené Brown, Daddy Yankee, and many others a room where the conversations between sessions can matter just as much as the ones on stage.

It also made me think about time. Exactly ten years ago, I was on that same stage alongside Zara Larsson, talking about how to turn an audience into something more — a community, a platform, a career. A lot has changed since then. And somehow, not that much.

The future begins with what we do today. I keep coming back to that line.

On that note

Sometimes presence looks like stopping the car on the way home from daycare to pick wild cow parsley from the roadside. Nobody planted it. Nobody arranged it. And yet — look at it.

That’s what I’m chasing this summer. I hope you are too.

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