OVER AND
OVER AGAIN
we tell stories about Sweden to visitors and to people we ourselves visit, attempting from various angles to communicate the ideas which we see as having fuelled our country’s progress. Gender equality. Human rights. Research and education. Industrial development and workers’ rights. Pomp and circumstance.
I have settled for two gifts which,
in their various ways, are vehicles of our history. Two gifts which are
easy to pack for a journey abroad but also ideal for use here at
home as gifts on a special occasion or, for example, tokens of thanks
to a visiting speaker. The history goes with them, always in English
and in one case in Swedish too. These gifts can also be seen as a
contemporary alternative to the Dalarna horse.
I once met a company director
who had a whole garden shed full of gifts received in the course of
his career. Things that were of little practical use, carried big
logotypes and for the most part had been manufactured in an
extremely low-price country.
But gifts, being part of a timeless mode of person-to-person contact, should be both memorable and useful. Practical and pleasurable.
Three things, accordingly, are fundamental to my company’s gift products:
THEY STEM FROM OUR HISTORY
AND ARE CARRIERS OF IT. Read more about the champagne
flute modelled on a glass in the Gripsholm Castle pantry and about
Sweden’s first luxury soap. I hope you will then feel inspired to
buy one or the other for your company or yourself.
BIE
SEIPEL +46 159 219 95 +46 708 29 19 95
THEY ARE MADE IN SWEDEN AND
THERE IS A USE FOR THEM!
GRIPSHOLMS
FABRIK
AB
HISTORY
GIFTS
MADE
IN SWEDEN