The shop
Genuine Scandinavian design by local designers.
Jorchr — CC BY 3.0 · Form Design Center — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Hajotthu — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Freepenguin — CC BY-SA 3.0
The Form/Design Center sits in an inner courtyard behind **Lilla Torg**, occupying a group of seventeenth-century buildings that were grain stores — restored in the 1970s by the architect Bengt Edman so that the old walls and timber beams were left exposed. That contrast between the old timber structure and the white modern display is the first thing you notice, and it is itself a statement about design. The centre is not a museum with a permanent collection but a **live exhibition space** for contemporary design, architecture and craft in southern Sweden: shows that change every few months, lectures and workshops. It has run as a non-profit since 1964. It has a **shop** selling genuine Scandinavian design — kitchenware, textiles and ceramics by local designers — among the best places to buy in Malmö, and a café in the courtyard. **Entry is free.**
Genuine Scandinavian design by local designers.
A café among old timber buildings behind Lilla Torg.
Lilla Torg 9, Malmö
Lilla TorgLilla Torg, the little square, is Malmo's prettiest and most photographed: a cob1 minute walk
StortorgetStortorget is Malmö's great square, cut through in the 1540s on the order of a D2 minutes walk4.5
Gustav Adolfs TorgGustav Adolfs Torg is Malmo's great southern square, laid out in the 1840s as pa3 minutes walk4.4
St Peter's ChurchSt Peter's is the oldest building in Malmo, raised in the early fourteenth centu5 minutes walk4.7
KungsparkenKungsparken is Malmo's oldest public park, opened in 1872 on ground that had bee6 minutes walk4.7The small cobbled square beside Stortorget, cut in 1592 when the great square proved larger than the market needed. Around it stand **painted timber houses of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries** — among the oldest surviving in Malmö — the best known being the Ekmanska house. Today the whole square is cafés and restaurants with outdoor tables under heaters in the cold, and it is the most photographed place in Malmö. Its prices are frankly touristic — **the food is cheaper and better around Möllevångstorget** — but an hour sitting there is worth it.