32 Best Places to Shop in Sweden

Form/Design Center is a hub for knowledge, exploration, and exchange in the areas of design and architecture. Look here for the very latest in Scandinavian interior design and crafts. The center also sells products related to its changing exhibitions on related topics.

Genuine Swedish clogs in every color of the rainbow are on offer at this small shop, which has occupied the same location since 1933. The handcrafted shoes are made locally in traditional, open-toed, and Mary Jane styles. The shop also sells leather accessories including handbags, wallets, and backpacks.

Occupying three floors in a 17th-century half-timbered house, this shop is run by a collective of local artisans and designers. Here you’ll find everything from hand-knit sweaters and printed fabrics to handmade leather goods, jewelry, pottery, woodcrafts, and more.

Åhléns is one of Sweden’s biggest department store chains, with locations all over the country. The Stockholm flagship store is located just above the main subway station, T-Centralen, and carries everything from clothing to books to housewares and fine crystal. Prices are slightly better than at Stockholm’s other major department store, NK. There's a large, well-stocked supermarket on the basement level.

As an arts-and-crafts cooperative, Formargruppen is owned and operated by its 20 members. It sells high-quality woodwork (including cabinets), ceramics, textiles, metalwork, and jewelry.

This Swedish furniture and homeware store offers minimalist, artisan-crafted furniture in natural materials, blending wood, limestone, leather, and granite, alongside a hand-picked selection of interior accessories.

Just down the road from Sergels Torg, this large indoor mall has designer chic to spare, selling everything from toys to fashion, and, more recently, a city-center Ikea store. The stores are a mix of Swedish and international brands.

At the Göteborg branch of Gudrun Sjödén, you’ll find the brightly colored women’s clothing and home textiles this internationally recognized Swedish designer is known for.

H&M is one of the few Swedish-owned clothing stores to have achieved international success. Here you can find fashionable designs at reasonable prices.

This men's store sells brightly colored and highly fashionable clothes in many styles. The golf line was made famous by Swedish golfer Jesper Parnevik.

Jaber is something of a draw for the wealthy in the area. It is a family-run clothes shop with a line of gorgeous international designs, matched only by the personal service it provides.

Malmö’s market hall is bursting with everything from gorgeous fruits and vegetables to cheese, tea, chocolate, ice cream, and fresh-baked bread. Its many cafés make it a wonderful spot to grab lunch. You’ll find seafood, sandwiches, salads, falafel, burgers, noodles, pizza, and more.

For something classic, you can't do better than Modernity, where 20th-century Scandinavian design by the likes of Arne Jacobsen, Alvar Aalto, and Poul Henningsen is in full force.

This square's lively year-round market usually has a wonderful array of flowers, fruit, and vegetables. It is an old working-class area that is now one of Malmö’s most international districts. Nearby are many restaurants serving food from all corners of the globe.

Head here for a broad selection of Nudie Jeans, the cool streetwear label born in Göteborg. They even offer free repairs for life, though you’ll have to get your jeans to a repair location, currently only in a handful of locations outside of Europe. You can order your own Nudie Repair Kit for free, however.

This long-running handicraft cooperative is still hugely popular today, offering a unique and beautiful range of ceramics, knitted goods, woodwork, and jewelry.

If you're interested in high-quality Swedish food, try the classic European indoor market Östermalms Saluhall, where you can buy superb fish, game, bread, and vegetables—or just have a glass of wine at one of the bars and watch the world go by. The historic 1880s building has undergone extensive renovation to preserve and restore its original character while also ensuring its future as one of Stockholm’s most popular destinations for specialty foods.

Along the main stretch of Haga Nygatan, you'll find this store full of curated interiors objects, stationery, jewelry, and ceramics hand-picked by staff.

This market hall is an adventure in itself, stocking an abundance of local products as well as delicacies from Italy, Japan, and many other places. Cheese, meats, fresh and pickled fish, chocolate, and pastries are all in great supply. It's the perfect place to grab a quick lunch or lighter meal at a counter or pick up some food for a picnic in one of Lund's many squares and parks.

In the same street-corner location for at least two generations, Ströms sells clothing of high quality and good taste.

Sturegallerian is a midsize mall on posh Stureplan that mostly carries higher-end clothing and accessories by Swedish and European brands.

For elegant home furnishings, affluent Stockholmers have favored Svenskt Tenn since its opening in 1924. The store, best known for its selection of designer Josef Frank's furniture and fabrics, also showcases jewelry, homeware, and accessories.