Plates, party people and Seinabo Sey: Mateus celebrates 30 years of covetable ceramics with a colourful cocktail party at NK

Over the past 30 years, Mateus has embedded itself in the Swedish culture. The Stockholm-based tableware brand, best known for its candy-coloured plates and whimsical serving dishes, is synonymous with weddings, crayfish parties and all manners of aesthetically pleasing dinner parties across our region.

To celebrate this milestone, founder Teresa Mateus Lundahl and her daughter Filippa Burenstam Linder, who joined her mother at the company 10 years ago, welcomed a smorgasbord of tastemakers, designers and young creatives to raise a glass of champagne (on Mateus-branded ice) in the grand foyer of NK, the first big retailer to carry the brand.

The playful nature of Mateus was on display at every turn, from the colourful display of plates, mugs and bowls of every size that snaked through the centre of the space to the candy station (guests could keep the Mateus bowls after noshing on their chosen sour gummies) to the giant Mateus shopping bags big enough to fit a human (trust me, I tried).

Amidst the lively mingle, our editor in chief Martina Bonnier took the stage to make a charming speech detailing her long relationship with the brand, after which Teresa and Filippa joined her for an emotional recounting of the brand’s rich history (the pieces, after all, merge Teresa’s Portuguese heritage with modern Scandinavian design language). Then beloved R&B singer Seinabo Sey took the mic for a characteristically mind-blowing performance.

Guests left with sunflowers and ceramics in hand. See all the photos below: