Sanna Volker

Barcelona, Spain

A Dance Between Designer and Artisans

The Bio

Based in Barcelona, Swedish-born designer Sanna Völker works across furniture, objects, and spatial design. Her practice explores materiality, craftsmanship, and the tension between functionality and artistic expression. Through experimentation with diverse materials and techniques, she creates pieces that balance craft, emotion, and cultural reflection.

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The Products

- Snug Candle Holder
- 165 EUR
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- Common Effort Table
- 1.600 EUR
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- Näkki Mirror
- 2.500 EUR
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- Kahn Stool
- 2.900 EUR
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The Conversation

Looking back, is there an early memory — an object, a place, or a person — that first awakened your sensitivity to form and beauty?

An experience that deeply impacted me was seeing The Weather Project by Olafur Eliasson at Tate Modern. I was around seventeen, and it absolutely blew my mind. I can still recall that overwhelming sense of wonder I felt in that moment.

You often collaborate closely with artisans. Beyond the work itself, what have these relationships taught you about patience, humility, or even friendship?

Working closely with artisans has taught me a deep respect for the intimate knowledge they hold in their hands. These collaborations have also taught me how to communicate, not only with people but with processes and materials themselves. There’s a quiet humility in understanding that the best results often emerge when you allow space for chance, resistance and imperfection.

Choose one material you return to again and again. What memory does it carry for you? Tell us about a time the material resisted your idea and how that resistance shaped the final form.

Stone carries many memories for me. It was one of the first materials I truly connected with - heavy, raw and honest. Through it, I’ve traveled, learned and formed relationships that have shaped my practice. Stone also resists; it demands knowledge, care and patience. That resistance often becomes a quiet collaborator, gently guiding the final form.

What keeps you restless, returning again and again to the studio? Is it curiosity, discipline, a need to prove something, or something else entirely?

Curiosity keeps me coming back, drawn by the thrill of exploring. I’m driven by the excitement that emerges from research, culture, process and form. Each project becomes an investigation, a space to experiment, to question and to grow. I love the challenge of pushing beyond what I already know and discovering new creative territories along the way.

When life feels overwhelming, where do you find peace? Is there a ritual, a place, or a practice that helps you return to yourself and to inspiration?

When life feels overwhelming, I try to disconnect completely. I turn off my phone, breathe deeply, and spend time with my family and close friends. Being in nature or somewhere quiet outside the city helps me find calm. It’s often in these moments of stillness and connection that new ideas begin to surface again.

Beyond form and function, what do you hope lingers in people’s hearts when they live with your work — a feeling, a memory, or a state of being?

Beyond form and function, I hope my work leaves a sense of calm curiosity, a subtle balance between contemplation and intrigue. If it can evoke a memory or spark a small story in someone’s mind, then it has fulfilled its purpose.