Supervox + other circle 002: Max Lamb

Flaws, Process and Fine Coffee, Inside Copenhagen’s Niko JuneJohannes Timo, CEO of the Copenhagen studio, brand and café Niko June, talks about bridging Swedish and Danish design sensibilities: Sweden’s polish and Denmark’s vibrancy. He also reflects on how Stockholm can feel more regulated yet deeply connected to nature.He traces his own path through Design Academy Eindhoven and a ceramics residency in Japan, where attention to the unseen parts of objects and respect for process shaped his approach to making.Niko June grew out of a Nordhavn studio community and is rooted in “the good object”: pieces you live with over time, where handmade uniqueness and even flaws build attachment. This shows in works like the heat-formed Eros Torso vase, the conversation-starting Studio Cup, and a modular foam block sofa.He also shares how the Paper Island café extends the practice into hospitality, with La Cabra coffee and a summer collaboration with Kadeau that pairs food with new tableware and serves coffee in Niko June’s own cups.Episode 007 is hosted by Richard Feigin.

From Wood Wood to Pas NormalKarl-Oskar joins us at other circle in Copenhagen to talk about his Swedish name, chosen after Max von Sydow’s character in Utvandrarna, his childhood between Sweden and Denmark, and how that connection still runs through his family. He shares his path from graduating the Danish Royal Academy of Design in 2002 to co-founding Wood Wood as a creative platform blending street culture, graphics and global city influences, and later launching Pas Normal Studios to bring his cycling background into performance apparel. He reflects on learning through mistakes, framing creativity, and building a company with clear roles alongside co-founder Peter. We also talk about balancing function with style, the brand’s distinctive color DNA, the realities of materials like GORE-TEX, why brands can’t “own” community, and the thinking behind collaborations like Pas Normal x Salomon.Episode 006 is hosted by Richard Feigin

Design Is PeopleHe traces his path from a potter grandfather’s DIY inventiveness and a skateboarding childhood in rural Skåne to cabinet-making school in Grebbestad, furniture design at Beckmans, and the Royal College of Art in London, where gallery culture shaped his thinking.Back in Stockholm he created Örnsbergsauktionen, part group show, auction and party, which helped kickstart a collectible design scene by building the context he felt was missing. We discuss interiors like Omnipollo’s brewery in a former church, using colour as a three-dimensional material to highlight architecture and construction, and his modular Joy Objects system in aluminium and acrylic, designed from his own vision of a holistic  product and brand language.In Copenhagen Fredrik Paulsen talks about Other Circle as a family-like meeting point and why, for him, the main function of design is people, life and the context around objects. He also shares a one-off collaboration with Emma Clarke, combining Joy Objects aluminium frames with her experimental wood, urushi lacquer and washi-based seats and backs.There is no doubt Fredrik’s appetite for bringing people together guides him in whatever he lays his hands on.For our ongoing podcast series, made in collaboration with SUPERVOX, we talk to creatives about their practice. All episodes are recorded at other circle in 2026.Episode 005 is hosted by Richard Feigin.

Danish artist Esben Weile Kjær traces a path from Aarhus punk and squatting culture to DJing, and explains why he treats images the way DJs treat tracks. He talks about where punk and pop collide in Hardcore Freedom at Copenhagen Contemporary, along with brutalism, stained glass as early light spectacles and curating Butterfly at ARKEN.For our ongoing podcast series, made in collaboration with SUPERVOX, we talk to creatives about their practice. All episodes are recorded at other circle in 2026.Episode 004 is hosted by Richard Feigin.

A conversation between South African photographer and visual activist Zanele Muholi and Astrid Birnbaum, recorded in Stockholm inside Faces and Phases: The Stockholm Edition at Eva Livijns Art Space (curated by Ulrika Flink), alongside a larger presentation at the Hasselblad Center in Gothenburg. Muholi reflects on receiving the Hasselblad Award 2026 as recognition for the communities whose stories they’ve documented, and traces an artistic journey shaped by township life under apartheid, activism, and the need for respectful, positive representation. They discuss why “any space is a space” if collaborators are safe and respected, and how showing work in a home can feel warmer and less intimidating than institutions. Muholi shares how Faces and Phases formally grew from personal and collective loss, expands through international collaborations including Black Queer Sweden, and explains Somnyama Ngonyama as self-portraiture, healing, ancestry, and language, where titles arrive through meaning, memory, and time.

The plates are designed by him. So is the glasware. Nicolai Nørregaard designs a new set of ceramics every year with people he has known for a long time. The glassware is made inhouse too. We went to Copenhagen for a chat with him in the test kitchen at Kadeau. This is a talk about craft and about a chef who refuses to stay in the kitchen.He just got his third Michelin star. We wanted to know what really goes on behind it.It starts on the walls. Old dishes stay up as a reference library. The menu changes twice a year and every new idea has to stand next to what came before. It is a hard cycle and he runs it without shortcuts.Nicolai is CEO and creative director. He shapes the flavor, the plating and the room around it. In collaboration with V1 Gallery, artists come to Bornholm for residencies and their work is installed in the restaurant with the seasons.Twice a year it all shifts together. Food, plates, glass, art and interiors. A new feeling every time, but always rooted in the island.Bornholm is where it comes from. Smokehouses, preservation, gardens and a deep craft tradition. Cooking became his fastest way to make something. You can taste it right away.

Fashion, art, literature, sculpture, music, film and craft from the Breakfast Lounge at Stockholm Stadshotell.Vanessa Gandy, new director and CEO of Sven-Harrys Konstmuseum, talks a career through fashion, design and Nordiska Museet, and walks us through the museum’s new exhibition Iconic Collaborations. Moderna Museet curator Asrin Haidari on the newly opened Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Teheran–New York, tracing the artist’s life between Iran and the US.Author Joanna Górecka on Öst: en ätkrönika, a fragmentary eating chronicle about identity, migration, hunger, control and inherited stories. Artist Fabian Bergmark Näsman on new sculptures at Ditte Lauridsen Gallery and a fountain work at Liljevalchs. Musician Pontus Winnberg on writing Britney Spears’ Toxic and making music in bands. Journalist Allyson Shiffman shares her film club and movie tips. And Li Pamp on practical knowledge and what fair valuation of craftsmen’s skills actually looks like.Your morning hosts are Richard Feigin, Astrid Birnbaum and Hanna Bergström. Thank you Stockholm Stadshotell for having us. This conversation is in Swedish.

Designer Max Lamb joins from the workshop floor at other circle in Copenhagen, folding cardboard caps and talking about why staying hands on matters. From a Cornish childhood of granite and clay to a pewter stool cast on a beach, he traces a focus on efficiency, economy, and function.For our ongoing podcast series, made in collaboration with SUPERVOX, we talk to creatives about their practice. All episodes are recorded at other circle in 2026.Episode 002 is hosted by Richard Feigin.

We talk about being self-taught, moving from photography into stone and sculpture, the ancient energy of stone and writing as a form of channeling. And what happens when you stop overthinking and allow intuition to lead the way.For our ongoing podcast series, a Supervox + other circle collaboration, we talk to creatives about their practice. All episodes are recorded at other circle in 2026.Episode 001 is hosted by Anna Fernsten Nilén.

Season premiere of Over Easy, live from the Breakfast Lounge at Stockholm Stadshotell. Richard, Astrid and Hanna open the season with a packed programme on art, craft and culture in Stockholm right now.Artist Rebecca von Matérn talks liminal moods, building her own frames and living in her grandfather's old studio, in conversation around her exhibition “In and Between”. Sara Källström, director of Millesgården, on stewardship, public programming and the exhibition “Life in Color & Form”, exploring the world of textile artist Barbro Nilsson and Robert Nilsson. Pontus Kipowski from the International Authors' Stage at Kulturhuset on how to build a programme, what makes a great author conversation, and the literature prize with its shortlist dropping September 23. Stylist Naomi Itkes, fresh back from London Fashion Week, on the magazine Litkes and styling as a complex practice of references. Richter Holtermann Gallery on building a platform for emerging artists and the exhibition “All Wrongs Reserved” featuring Theodor Forsbäck. Ayesha Quraishi on wearable art project God's Vessel, rubber as a material and a spatial sculpture for Stockholm Fashion Week in collaboration with Svensk Däckåtervinning. And Sara Kristoffersson closes the morning on the role of criticism, the Memphis Group and her book Palatset på Söder about the Laurinska house and its residents.Your morning hosts are Richard Feigin, Astrid Birnbaum and Hanna Bergström. Thank you Stockholm Stadshotell for having us. This conversation is in Swedish.