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Fourteen people. One workshop.

We started in 2009 with a lathe, a lease on a damp room by the Öresund, and one rule we've never broken: don't sell anything you can't repair.

2009Founded in Malmö

14People in the workshop

600 kmFurthest timber travels

The Norra Living workshop in evening light: timber stock, hand tools on the wall and chair frames in progress

A whitewashed round table and chair in a bright white room, styled with a single vase and a plant

Four unglazed and half-glazed stoneware vessels in oat and clay tones on a white surface

How it's made

We only sell what we can repair.

Every frame is mortise-and-tenon joined in oak or ash. No staples. No MDF. No glue-only joints that turn a chair into firewood the first time someone leans back too far.

It is slower. A Fjord frame takes one person the better part of a day, and we make about nine a week. That is the whole reason the range is narrow — we would rather make one sofa properly than eleven that are merely adequate.

When something does break, and it does, we post you the part and the tools to fit it. No invoice, no argument. We have sent out 2,300 replacement legs, dowels and hex keys since 2009. Every one of them kept a piece of furniture out of a skip.

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Materials & sourcing

Everything, and where it comes from.

No "responsibly sourced" without a name attached. Here is the whole list, and how far each thing travels to reach the bench.

Norra Living materials, their supplier, and distance travelled to the workshop
Material	Where it comes from	Distance
Oak & ash	Four FSC 100% forests in Skåne and Blekinge. Kiln-dried on site, never imported green.	≤ 600 km
Wool	Spun in Borås from Gotland and Swedish fine-wool fleece. Undyed where the colour allows.	330 km
Leather	Vegetable-tanned in Tärnsjö — the last tannery in Sweden still doing it without chrome.	580 km
Linen	Flax grown and woven in Belgium. The one thing we can't get closer, and we've tried.	890 km
Filling	Natural latex core with wool wadding. No polyurethane foam in any piece we've ever made.	1,100 km
Finish	Hardwax oil, plant-based. No polyurethane lacquer — it can't be spot-repaired, so we don't use it.	410 km

Updated January 2026. If a supplier changes, this table changes — we publish it whether the number gets better or worse.

Västergatan 18, Malmö

Come and sit on it.

The showroom is the workshop's front room. Everything on the floor is the same piece we'd send you — no thinner display versions, no "showroom only" fabrics.

Sit on the Fjord for twenty minutes. Open the drawers. Ask the person on the floor how the joint is cut; they will have cut one. There is coffee, and nobody will follow you around.

Thursday – Friday11:00 – 18:00
Saturday10:00 – 17:00
Sunday12:00 – 16:00
Monday – WednesdayWorkshop days — closed
Workshop toursFirst Saturday, 09:00

Browse before you visit

Norra Living showroom floor: a grey modular sofa, an oak coffee table and a low sideboard on pale timber

The long view

The greenest sofa is the one you keep.

We don't offset. We just build things that don't need replacing, and take them back when you're done.

Spare parts, stocked 25 years

Every component of every piece we've sold since 2009 is still in the racks. A 2011 Vika arm is one email away.

2,300Parts posted, free of charge

Norra Second — we buy it back

Done with a piece? We buy it back at a fair price, refinish it in the workshop, and sell it on with the warranty intact.

640Pieces given a second home

Nothing goes to landfill

Offcuts become dowels and stools. Sawdust goes to the local brickworks. Packaging comes back on the van and gets used again.

0Tonnes to landfill, 2025

Come see for yourself

Thursday to Sunday. The coffee is on.

Västergatan 18, Malmö. Or start with the catalogue and take your time — the furniture isn't going anywhere.

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