Tekla Evelina Severin (*1981, Gävle, Sweden) / more known as “@teklan”, founded her own multidisciplinary studio in 2015. She´s based in Stockholm, Sweden but working mostly abroad. After graduating from Interior architecture and furniture design at Konstfack University of Arts and Crafts in Stockholm 2010, She worked as an interior architect with both big public spaces and private high end residentials at various architecture studios, before starting her own multidisciplinary journey and studio -through colours. The first couple of years she focused on photography and set design. She did her first solo photography exhibition in Guatemala City and has now also exhibited with her photography in Buenos Aires, Berlin, Los Angeles, Madrid, New York, Reykjavik and Stockholm. Tekla started to do bigger interior- and exhibition designs, as well as dedicated product designs and colour collaborations, so called “teklan editions” from 2018 and onwards. Since then she has done “teklan editions” with a number of international furniture companies as well as apparel- and outdoor brands; to mention a few; Danish Montana Furniture, Italian Very Simple Kitchen; which also got the International ELLE DECORATION AWARD; EDIDA for “Best kitchen designer of the year” 2022, and Norwegian Heymat; that won the NYCXDESIGN award for best Residential Flooring category with the `Mix Teklan´ mat , in 2021. She have done a number of very recognised interior/exhibition designs; latest the 250 SQM exhibition “Dimensions of Colour” in the entrance of Stockholmsmässan, FORMEX January 2023, 2022 she did “An apartment of one’s own” fo Spanish Sancal, at the isalone during Milan design week, a 56 SQM personal and fully customised home interior homage. That year (2022) she also did the exhibition design for the launch of the tile collaboration “färgblock” for italian company Quintessenza at Cersaie. 2022 was also the year she was awarded with the Swedish ELLE DECORATION Award EDDA for “Interior designer of the year”. Additionally; She have also been consulted as a colour expert and trend forecaster all around the world.