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Currently Coveting: A Color-Blocked Dining Table

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Currently Coveting: A Color-Blocked Dining Table

May 22, 2025

Swantje Hinrichsen is a graphic designer and illustrator with a flair for interior design: see her Artful Kitchen Built from Reclaimed Ikea Parts, Extreme Budget Edition. She and her family have since moved to a bright space in Münster, Germany, that we’ve been admiring on Instagram. We’re not the only ones: furniture and interiors studio Donnerblitz Design also of Münsterland recruited Swantje to come up with color combinations for its metal-framed Friis dining table lending the minimalist design, in their words, “a new expressive dimension that makes it a real eye-catcher.”

For those of us who have been eyeing color blocking options, such as Reform’s Match kitchen cabinets, but are not prepared to go quite so bold, the multi-toned Friis may be the perfect answer.

Photography courtesy of Swantje Hinrichsen (@swantjehinrichsen) and Donnerblitz Design (@thunderbolt_design).

the friis x swantje hinrichsen table has a powder coated steel frame and comes  17
Above: The Friis X Swantje Hinrichsen table has a powder-coated steel frame and comes in four color combinations: Variant Two, photographed in Swantje’s dining room, is shown here and throughout. It’s made in Münster and is available in two sizes starting at €2,170 (custom sizes also made on request).
the two toned tabletops are composed of oak veneered chipboard with oak edges. 18
Above: The two-toned tabletops are composed of oak-veneered chipboard with oak edges.
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Above: Swantje in a Stine Goya dress. Her tattoos are her own designs. Photograph by Robert Rieger.
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Above: The curved light is Muller Van Severin’s Hanging Lamp No. 2.
each of the four friis x swantje hinrichsen table options has a two toned top a 21
Above: Each of the four Friis X Swantje Hinrichsen table options has a two-toned top and a contrasting frame color. (The Friis is also available with a solid oak top and a powder-coated steel frame in a range of colors.) The chairs are Alvar Aalto’s variations on a theme: his Chair 66, Chair 68, and Chair 69, all introduced in 1935 and still in production by Artek.

The case for colorful quarters:

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