This family-run English-language bookshop on Davidshallsgatan is kept by Tiffany and Marcus, who stock handpicked titles and host book clubs, readings and live music in its intimate space. Copies sit on the shelves in-store and can be reserved or ordered as curated bundles online.
Best for Bookshop, English-language books, book clubs, live events
Inside a historic building on Malmo's Lilla Torg, Form/Design Center keeps a shop of locally produced design and craft alongside a specialised art and architecture bookstore run with Konst-ig. Glass, jewellery, posters, toys and interior pieces fill the shelves, and the same selection can be ordered through its web shop.
Best for Design shop, craft objects, art & design books, glass, jewellery
Opened in 2006 as one of Sweden's first modern specialty micro-roasteries, Lilla Kafferosteriet roasts coffee in central Malmo and serves it at its cafe in the Claus Mortensen house on Baltzarsgatan. Bags of beans are sold over the counter and shipped to the door through its web shop, with free delivery on orders over 300 kronor.
Best for Small-batch roasted coffee beans and cafe pours from one of Sweden's first
This Malmo maker produces award-winning organic bean-to-bar chocolate free from nuts, gluten, soy, and palm oil, powered by its own solar energy. Bars, boxes, and gifts are sold online and at its shops on Hamngatan in Malmo and Grev Turegatan in Stockholm.
Best for Chocolate, bean-to-bar, organic chocolate
Founded in 2018 by Henrik Malmberg in a villa in Limhamn, Malmo Mobelfabrik makes furniture, lampshades and lighting locally from materials sourced nearby. Its direct online shop carries the Lugnet pine furniture series and colourful handmade lampshades, shipping across Sweden and much of the EU.
Best for Furniture, lampshades, lighting, home furnishings, locally made
Malmo Porslin makes the Pi range, thirteen porcelain pieces and two glass vases mouth-blown at Skrufs Glasbruk that shift between bowl, cup and glass depending on what you pour in. The studio sells its tableware and vases directly alongside Ambientec's Japanese lighting, with a reseller network across Sweden.
Mitt Möllan is a collective in Möllevången, Malmö, housing shops such as La Kasbah, Möllans Te, South Soles sneakers, Typotopia and Trisses bokbox alongside a shoe and key service. A food court adds vendors including Bao Bao, Pin Pin Dumpling and Naan Wrapsters.
Best for Independent local shops and vintage finds
Sabina Morin hand-shapes the Terra and Skymning tableware collections in Malmö as part of the Formargruppen craft collective. She also takes custom commissions and teaches ceramics courses.
Solde roasts single-origin coffee on a 12-kilo drum roaster at its Frihamnen base in Malmö, naming each lot individually — Mäster's, Bror's, Bodi'l's, Vera's. Each is processed natural, washed, anaerobic or honey.
Best for Single-origin coffees named Mäster's, Bror's, Bodi'l's and Vera's
Ceramicist Maria Richardsson throws mugs, plates, bowls, vases, and candlesticks by hand at her Malmo studio, favouring clean lines and the contrast of raw clay and glaze. Pieces are sold in periodic drops through her online shop.
Malmo menswear retailer founded in 2006 by brothers Simon and Hannes Hogeman with Bjorn Linden and Jakob Tornberg; began as curated online multi-brand retail, opened its Fersens vag flagship store in 2015, and runs its own ready-to-wear line.
Best for Swedish curation, own-brand
Tres Bien is a Swedish menswear and footwear retailer founded in 2006 in Malmo by brothers Simon and Hannes Hogeman together with Bjorn Linden and Jakob Tornberg, launched during the wave of Scandinavian fashion brands that also produced Acne Studios and Cheap Monday. It began as a curated multi-brand e-commerce operation blending streetwear rooted in 1990s US sportswear culture with European fashion. After several years online-only, the founders opened a flagship store in central Malmo in 2015. In 2014 the company had introduced its own ready-to-wear line. Tres Bien has since expanded its physical retail beyond Sweden, including a London store.