Heimur is a solo exhibition by Icelandic-Angolan designer Logi Pedro, opening 7 May at Ásmundarsalur during HönnunarMars 2026. A complete domestic environment of more than twenty objects designed and fabricated from scratch, Heimur proposes a home built from a third position, neither inherited from Scandinavian design nor borrowed from elsewhere, but authored from a single vocabulary.

Every home is an argument about who lives there. The shape of a cup, the height of a table, the objects arranged on a shelf. None of it is neutral. Scandinavian design encoded a specific culture's preferences into forms so fluent they came to pass as universal. Pale wood, clean forms, measured restraint. It is a climate, a culture, and a set of social habits made physical.

I grew up between two cultures with almost nothing in common materially. Different light, different textures, different assumptions about what a room should feel like. I trained as a designer in the Nordic tradition. It is, in part, my own. But it has never been the whole picture.

Heimur is a complete domestic environment. More than twenty objects designed and fabricated from scratch, installed as one room. Furniture, tableware, textiles, lighting, sound. The work follows the Total Design tradition that runs from Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk through to Jacobsen and Panton, where the designer shapes the whole environment rather than the individual object. Authored from a single position. Full of references, full of intent, but entirely new.

In modern times, homes are shaped by showrooms, Instagram feeds, and Pinterest boards. Other people's taste, absorbed until it feels like a personal choice. When none of those options describe your life, you are left with a decision: deny yourself or build.

This room is the second option. Every surface, every material, every object designed from a single position. The space stops being an interior and becomes a world. Not the culture I came from, not the culture I grew up in, but something that could only exist because both are present. A resolved environment. A third culture made physical.

The work takes its theoretical grounding from Stuart Hall's proposition that cultural identity is a doing rather than an inheritance, Homi Bhabha's third space of representation, and Paul Gilroy's account of diasporic cultural production in The BlackAtlantic. The exhibition is the research, not its illustration. The room, with its objects, is the primary source.

Heimur is the first solo exhibition by Logi Pedro.

Credits:

Concept and design:
Logi Pedro for Lopedro

Production:
Carpentry: Fjöl Works
Glassware: Reykjavík Glass
Ceramics: Studio Viktor Breki

Exhibition:
Photography: Kjartan Hreinsson
Graphic identity: Völundur Hafstað

Supporters:
Polestar
66°North
Baunir & ber
Húsasmiðjan
Iceland Design & Architecture Fund

Logi Pedro Stefánsson is an Icelandic-Angolan designer based in Reykjavík. Born in Portugal, raised in Iceland, he holds a BA in Product Design from the Iceland University of the Arts.

He is an Industrial Designer at the Össur Design Center and a guest lecturer in the Product Design department at the Iceland University of the Arts. His studio Lopedro works across furniture, objects, and footwear, with recurring clients and collaborators including RANRA, Fila Fusion, 66°North, and Plastplan.

Heimur is his first solo exhibition. Logi is also a decorated musician, with a body of work spanning close to two decades.

About Lopedro

Lopedro is the Reykjavík-based design studio of Logi Pedro. Founded in 2024, the studio works across furniture, objects, and footwear, with recurring clients and collaborators including RANRA, Fila Fusion, 66°North, and Plastplan.