Disney x Gustaf Westman: The happiest design collab just landed

As we shared last month, Swedish designer and former Vogue Scandinavia Living cover star Gustaf Westman has teamed up with Disney to design a smile-inducing interiors collection spanning furniture, tableware and collectible objects. Beyond the handful of teaser items that were originally revealed, the full Disney x Gustaf Westman collection has now been released – and, take our word for it, it’s a mouse-terpiece.

Westman’s signature design style is instantly recognisable: with his use of exaggerated proportions, bubblegum colours and sculptural forms, his creative world is unapologetically playful and refuses to take itself too seriously. For the Swedish designer, to collaborate with global entertainment behemoth Disney was therefore a match made in design heaven.

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As Westman explains, the collaboration began, as many of the best things do, through friendship: “Harry Lambert, my friend and collaborator, originally introduced me to Disney,” he says. “The connection between the world of Disney and my own design world instantly felt aligned from the start.” From there, the natural fit evolved with ease: “It was all very intuitive, and the initial smaller idea naturally became something much bigger as I started weaving the two worlds together,” he adds.

Unsurprisingly, as Disney figures prominently in many childhoods worldwide, the same is true of Westman. For the designer, this collaboration has been in the making for a long time, even unconsciously. “Disney was a huge part of my childhood,” he shares. “Mickey and Friends were my favourite characters as a child. I loved the shapes and colours of them and how, in any form, they are instantly recognisable.”