Claesson Koivisto Rune is a Swedish architectural partnership, founded in Stockholm, in 1995, by Mårten Claesson, Eero Koivisto and Ola Rune. Originally an architectural firm, it is now an internationally acclaimed, multi-disciplinary office with an equal emphasis on both architecture and design. Claesson Koivisto Rune are the first Swedish office to have exhibited in the international section at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2004). Responsible for a wide range of award-winning projects such as K5 Hotel in Tokyo; Grand Hotel Terminus, Villa Terminus, Zander K and Bergen Børs hotels in Bergen, Norway; Inde/Jacobs gallery building in Marfa, TX; Sfera Building culture house in Kyoto; the Tind Prefab house collection for Fiskarhedenvillan; Widlund House private villa on Öland; Örsta Gallery building in Kumla; Nobis Hotel and Hotel Skeppsholmen, in Stockholm. The office has ongoing private and commercial projects around the world.
Claesson Koivisto Rune’s award-winning designs feature in the collections of the international brands: Arflex, Artifort, Asplund, Boffi, Capdell, Cappellini, David design, Dux, Fontana Arte, Kasthall, Living Divani, Modus, Muuto, Nikari, Offecct, Paola Lenti, Smaller Objects, Studio TK, Tacchini, Ton, Wästberg, among others. In 2022, Sweden’s museum of art and design, Nationalmuseum, added three more Claesson Koivisto Rune designs; Wafer chair, Sfera chair & Font table, to their permanent collection.
Claesson Koivisto Rune has received an array of international awards and recognitions, amongst them ten American Good Design Awards 2009 – 2018; the Designpreis Deutschland (Gold and Silver) 2011 by the Federal Republic of Germany; Designer of the Year 2011 and Furniture of the Year 2012 by Elle Deco Sweden; Designer of the Year and Best Seating 2014 by Elle Decor Italia; and the Red Dot Design Award – Best of the Best 2014, making them the first office to hold the prestigious Red Dot in five different product categories. In 2021, Claesson Koivisto Rune received ‘Best Hotel Conversion’ for K5 hotel, Tokyo, in the Asia Ahead awards.
In 2021, King of Sweden Carl XVI Gustaf presented Mårten Claesson, Eero Koivisto and Ola Rune with The Prince Eugen Medal for outstanding artistic achievement in architecture (2020). They have also been the recipients of the Bruno Mathsson Award (2015), the highest honour in furniture design in Sweden and the Scandinavian region.
