Friends & Founders’ contemporary collection shows off extravagant, crafted detailing which attests to the designer Ida’s careful eye. The collections are manufactured in Scandinavia and Europe by skilled craftsmen who come from a long tradition of high-quality furniture-making. The design have distinct aesthetic signatures with influences from 20th century artistic movements. Ida begins her process with ideas founded in the artistic paradigm of geometric abstraction. Her designs have roots in modernism and the Bauhaus movement’s functionalist ideologies, often associated with minimalism.