First Lock In party at the Swedish Historical Museum
Wallpaper* and SodaStream hosted the first Lock In party at the Swedish Historical Museum of Wines and Spirits on Stockholm's waterfront. The building dates from the mid-1700s, and was originally built to house the Swedish coastal naval fleet on land. Originally, 30 galley sheds lined the shore, however only two now remain in the waterfront neighbourhood of Djurgården in central Stockholm
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International visitors of Stockholm’s Furniture & Light Fair during Stockholm Design Week know that they only have to turn on the tap in their hotel room bathrooms to get grand cru quality mineral water. The H20 that flows freely from the Arctic glaciers into domestic faucets is as good, fresh, pure, cool and clean as pretty much anything they can pay for from the minibar. Add bubbles and you won’t be able to tell it from Perrier...or the local Ramlösa.

So snowy Stockholm seemed like a good place to kick off our series of Wallpaper* SodaStream Lock In Parties – New York, London and Milan are already in our social diaries for the coming year. The plan is to get in sync with the global design fair agenda, providing fizz, effervescence, cocktails and good times for a select guest list of city visitors and local creative talent. Deejays, spirits and musical entertainment will be locally sourced; cocktails influenced by indigenous flavours and spices; and venues atypical and of architectural note.

For the Stockholm event, Wallpaper* and SodaStream chose Absolut Vodka’s recently renovated Spritmuseum on the capital’s waterfront. The work of Lomar Arkitekter, it is a fantastic conversion of an 18th-century boat house.

With SodaStream’s pop-up bar fixtures in place, banks of shiny new machines getting busy fizzing the local water, and live music from local Swede-grime star Elliphant, SodaStream designer Yves Behar was put in charge of the bespoke cocktail menu. Cucumber Heat vodka lime soda anyone?

The venue also houses Absolut’s Art Collection, which includes pieces by the likes of Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst and Ed Ruscha. The artworks may be the daily attraction upstairs at Stockholm’s Spritmuseum but on Wednesday night, at the debut of the Wallpaper* SodaStream Lock In party series, some very handsome guests made a proper exhibition of themselves downstairs too.

Photo of inside the party

The galley sheds originally owned by the King of Sweden, were donated by the monarch to become the home of the Swedish Historical Museum of Wines and Spirits. The sheds, restored by Lomar Architects now house the Absolut Art Collection, which includes original works by Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst and Louise Bourgeois

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Photo of man preparing juice

Mixing 'Cucmber Heat'; 4 slices cucumber, 1oz vodka, 0.5oz  Saint Germain, 0.5oz lemon juice, 2oz soda water.  Muddle cucumber slices in shaker with ice. Add the vodka, Saint Germain and lemon juice. Shake over ice and strain into a Collins glass with ice. Top with the soda water. Garnish with two twists of pepper cracker and a slice of cucumber

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Photo of man preparing 'Canadaian Moscow Mule

Mixing the 'Canadaian Moscow Mule'; 2oz vodka, 1oz lime juice, 0.5oz maple syrup, 3 dashes Angostura bitters, 3oz ginger ale soda.  Shake the vodka, lime juice, maple syrup and Angostura over ice and strain into a Collins glass with ice. Top with the ginger ale soda and garnish with candied ginger

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Photo of 'Dorchester's Sister' drink

'Dorchester's Sister'.  Mix 2oz vodka, 0.5oz Maraschino, 1oz lime juice, 3 oz grapefruit soda. Shake over ice and strain into cocktail glass.  Garnish with a sprig of rosemary

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Four men posing for photo

From left: Architect Pontus Lomar, Wallpaper* Bespoke editor Simon Mills, SodaStream's chief innovation officer Yaron Kopel and Wallpaper*' editor-in-chief Tony Chambers

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3 Women and 1 man posing for photo

From left: Ingrid Leffler, director of the Swedish Historical Museum of Wines and Spirits, Mia Sundberg, curator of the Absolut Art Collection, Nina Tolstrop, designer and curator and Jack Mama, creative director at VHM Design Futures

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Photo of 4 Fashion designers

From left: Fashion designers Anna Ellingsen Barron and Christina de Mercado, Simon Mills and designer Lina Nordqvist

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Photo of 3 designers

From left: Designers Torbjørn Anderssen, Petter Skogstad and Caroline Olsson

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Photo of 2 photographers

From left: Photographer Ivan R Nunez and Ellinor Lord

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Photo of Architect, Interiors Editor, Director of Executive

From left: Architect Johan Oscarson of Elding Oscarson, Wallpaper* Interiors Editor Amy Heffernan and Sveinung Skaalnes, Global Partnership Director of Executive Programs at Hyper Island

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Photo of 3 Designers, 1 architect

From left: Designer Rasmus Wingardh, architect Henrik Schulz, designer and founder of All Blues, Jacob Skragge and Charlie Lindström

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Photo of SodaStream machine

Source SodaStream machine is designed by Yves Béhar, designer and founder of Fuseproject, the San Francisco and New York-based design and branding firm, established in 1999

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Photo of SodaStream’s designer and architect

From left: SodaStream’s Yaron Kopel, architect Pernilla Ohrstedt and designer Tove Thambert

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Photo of 3 women

From left: Eva Livijn-Olin from Galleri Futura, Pia Malling Cuppucini from Kvadrat and stylist Roberta Holm Ellingsen

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Photo of 2 men and 1 woman

From left: Kristofer Crockett, Alex Weller and Jamie Coomber from Converse

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Photo of Designer Marianne Andersen

Designer Marianne Andersen flicking through what we presume is her favourite magazine

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Photo of 2 designers

From left: Sveinung Skaalnes and Alexander Neuman, designer at Hyper Island

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Photo of 2 people from SodaStream

From left: Yaron Kopel and Noa Magal, both from SodaStream

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Photo of singer Elliphant

One of our new favourite Swedes, Elliphant, performed some of her addictive tracks at our Lock In party. Dubbed by many as a cross between M.I.A. and Diplo, Stockholm-born Elliphant is predicted to be Sweden's next big thing

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Photo of singer Elliphant going back to the stage

Due to popular demand, Elliphant got back on stage for an encore. Listen to her tracks ‘Down on Life’ and ‘Ciant Hear It

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Photo of 2 designers and 1 Project Manager

From left: Designer Torbjørn Anderssen, Noa Magal, Global Project Manager at SodaStream, and designer Peter Skogstad

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Photo of 2 men and 1 woman

From left: Johan Oscarson, Linn Sundqvist and Sveinung Skaalnes 

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Photo of 2 designers

From left: Designers Nicolai Gulliksen and Sara Gressberg

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Photo of 2 Fashion designers

From left: Fashion designer Ida Sjöstedt and Okee Williams

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Photo of marketing director, make-up artist

From left: Sofie Lindqvist, marketing director at the Stockholm Science City Foundation, and make-up artist Sofia Lewandrowski

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Photo of 2 designers

From left: Designers Jonas Wagell and Lukas Dahlén

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Photo of 3 designers

From left: Designers Caroline Brahme, Helena Hedenstedt and Per Jörnlöv

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Rosa Bertoli was born in Udine, Italy, and now lives in London. Since 2014, she has been the Design Editor of Wallpaper*, where she oversees design content for the print and online editions, as well as special editorial projects. Through her role at Wallpaper*, she has written extensively about all areas of design. Rosa has been speaker and moderator for various design talks and conferences including London Craft Week, Maison & Objet, The Italian Cultural Institute (London), Clippings, Zaha Hadid Design, Kartell and Frieze Art Fair. Rosa has been on judging panels for the Chart Architecture Award, the Dutch Design Awards and the DesignGuild Marks. She has written for numerous English and Italian language publications, and worked as a content and communication consultant for fashion and design brands.