Photo credits © 2022 Kasper Bøttern
“Furniture dress the person wearing it”
The Danish designer Felicia Arvid, (born in Aarhus on the 26th of April 1994) began her creative path in dressmaking and fashion design and sold her first fashion designs to Japan at the age of 18. Wanting to explore other areas in the creative field she went to study Architecture at Glasgow School of Art.
Felicia Arvid’s approach to design is formed by her tactile experience from working with fabric and draping a flat material into three-dimensional shapes and exploiting the materials resilience to inform the shape. Her architectural experience gives clarity and constructional awareness including a sense of quality in materials and atmosphere through the development process.
Combining the approaches in to product design, creates a concept for uniting form, material, construction and function – always striving for reaching the surprising simplicity.
Fascinated by the contradiction between the unique and repetitive, Felicia Arvid’s designs show the result of an ongoing exploration of how the unique expression can be achieved when combined with repetition in shapes.
In 2018, Felicia Arvid exhibited at Salone Satellite which led to the collaboration with Caimi Brevetti and production of the acoustic panel Klipper.
After the exhibition, she was appointed by Marva Griffin, founder and curator of Salone Satellite, to be one of her candidates for the exclusive Hublot Design Prize 2018.
Felicia Arvid has been invited and selected to a number of exhibitions around Europe. She was invited to exhibit at Stockholm Design Week 2019 in a group exhibition curated by the Swedish Stoft Studio and later selected to exhibit at Le Off during Paris Design Week.
In 2020, she exhibited at Ukurant Objects during 3 Days of Design in Copenhagen.
The same year she was invited by the Danish Embassy in Vienna to exhibit at their Danish Design exhibition held at the Museum of Applied Arts together with the design fair Blickfang.
Selected in 2021, to exhibit at Isola Design District’s exhibition, Only Good News, during Dutch Design Week.
In 2022 she made an interior design for the luxury night club, Discoteque Hyttefadet, in Gl. Skagen, Denmark and presented a new collection of furniture and wall panel designs at Salone Satellite in Milano.
Her recent work includes the pendant lamp Pli designed for Foscarini and marks Felicia Arvid's first entry into world of lighting.
The studio has gained international recognition with the award-winning acoustic panel Klipper for Caimi Brevetti S.p.A.:
XXVII Compasso d'Oro ADI 2022 for Klipper
Adex Platinum award 2021 for Klipper (Dunes)
Best of NeoCon Silver award 2021 for Klipper (Dunes)
Best of NeoCon Innovation award 2021 for Klipper (Dunes)
ADI Design Index Award 2020 for Klipper