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Sögne Home AS
Sögne Home is a Norwegian supplier of brand products, and we design and sell interior design items for ethically-minded Scandinavian customers. We are passionate about designing sustainable products that are good to use, stylish to look at and based on good values! At Sögne Home, we design honest interior design products of the highest quality. The products have a modern Scandinavian expression, yet are timeless and stylish, and of a quality that is designed to last for generations. The products we make are developed by our small team in Søgne in Kristiansand, and they are produced in close collaboration with our manufacturers in India and Bangladesh. We ensure that our production lines are safe and sustainable, and we strive to be a company that can be trusted by our customers, partners and manufacturers. We hope that you will appreciate the items that we make – and that they will give you pleasure for many, many years. It all began on an ordinary Tuesday in 2011. Kristin and Linda were colleagues in an interior design shop in Søgne, when Kristin asked: "Shouldn't we just start up on our own?" Linda said yes. And that was it. A few days later, Kristin, Linda and a third colleague, Vibeke, and their husbands, sat down around a kitchen table and discussed what would later become Sögne Home. They knew they wanted to make interior design products, but not what exactly. Since Søgne is a coastal municipality in Southern Norway, with long maritime and fishing traditions, it seemed natural to think along those lines. Anyone who travels by sea knows how dark it gets in the evening, so the ideas started to revolve around a lantern. "We found someone to help us whit a lantern designed to hold a candle, and that became our first prototype," Kristin remembers. "They believed in us from the very beginning" The founders' journey had begun. The girls took the lantern in their hand luggage to a trade fair in Frankfurt, which is a meeting point for designers and manufacturers. They wandered around, not really knowing how things worked, terrified of letting the lantern out of their sight. But suddenly the ball began to roll. The founders from Søgne made contact with a couple of manufacturers in India, and for a few hectic months that autumn, drawings of lanterns and cushions, and samples of materials shuttled back and forth between Søgne and the East. They were in such a hurry because Sögne Home was due to meet its first potential customers at the interior design fair in Lillestrøm in January 2012. The prototypes of the lanterns and a sample collection of cushions with a characteristic 'ö' taken from the logo arrived just in time. In just a few days at the trade fair in Lillestrøm, the girls managed to sign contracts with several shops all over the country.