Following up a Teenage Engineering collab must be quite an imposing challenge, and Swedish designer Tekla Evelina Severin's new range of bluetooth speakers for Ikea presents a thematic opposite: soft, muted colors, natural textures and rounded forms.
All speakers are designed around the idea that products bringing sound into a room should also add presence and character, even when they are not in use. The SOLSKYDD family, which also comes in a clean white version outside the Teklan collaboration, is designed by Ola Wihlborg for both form and acoustics. It includes three round Bluetooth speakers, each with its own size and personality: a small portable model in orange with an eye-catching pattern, and a medium version in green with brown and beige diagonal stripes. Both can hang or stand o

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