Visitors to Stockholm Design Week can clamber over a snowy landscape without getting wet, in an installation created by Note Design Studio.
With the rest of the city is blanketed by real snow, Note Design Studio's snowy installation is sheltered from the elements, inside a pair of glass pavilions on the roof of Stockholm hotel At Six.
Called Snowtopped, the snow-like mounds lean up against the walls and spill out over seating areas.

The installation was created for French manufacturer Tarkett, to explore the wider potential of the brand's vinyl flooring products.
By creating the freeform curves of snow dunes, the designers hoped to show the flexibility of the material, while also celebrating the wintery weather that sets Stockholm Design Week apart from furniture fairs in places like Milan and Miami.
"With the furniture fair in February, it's always cold, it's always dark and often it's like it is now, with a lot of snow," explained Note Design Studio co-founder Johannes Carlström.
"We wanted to make something suited to Stockholm," he told Dezeen. "We looked at the shapes of snow dunes, at how the wind makes these nice shapes after the snow has fallen, and we tried to recreate that."

The dunes are constructed from huge pieces of styrofoam, created by a manufacturer in Norway. Tarkett's vinyl completely covers the surface of the blocks, despite their complex geometries.
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