NAME:

Anna Starrén

AGE:

53

HOBBIES:

Doing what feels fun and enjoyable. Leisure or work doesn't matter

MOTTO:

Choose joy!

FUTURE PLANS:

Write a book about funerals. Build Tiny Houses.

BEST DECORATION HACK:

Dare to refuse white. With color, you can do absolutely everything.

I often draw inspiration from fabrics and colors. Old fabric stores can be goldmines.

Anna is a florist at heart, and a vocational teacher for florists. Anna describes herself as driven by desire and she does whatever comes to her mind. This, combined with her liking to "build things," led her into the interior design industry and she started the successful company Oddbirds together with a colleague.

Oddbirds is an interior and design studio that brings visions to life. A success story that started with 4 creative hands, a big bunch of ideas, dreams, and passion. Today, Oddbirds is a well-renowned design studio with major clients in public spaces.

Anna wanted to move forward, create and build new environments. She is driven and fueled by joy. Today, Anna runs her own business where she wants to inspire and enthuse creativity. Create wonderful interiors and inspiring environments, scenography, styling, and set design. Conduct workshops and lectures. Curate exhibitions, events, and parties.

At a workshop, we can do everything from tying bouquets, setting tables, or creating worlds from scrap. Build display windows just for you or find inspiration in a postage stamp.

Anna curates exhibitions, big and small. Styles photo shoots and filmings. I help create new contexts for things, build environments, and find new ways to show and present.

She gives lectures and workshops where she gladly shares the experiences she has gained during her 25 years in the industry.

The party is our time's shining campfire. You can find decorations in the forest and fields. Maybe a cherry drink, some bossa nova on the speakers? Don't complicate it! Serve something you've made before. Or invite to a potluck! We'll figure it out together.

Anna's best interior design tip is to "sneak a peek into other people's worlds." It can be a movie, an exhibition, or almost anything. Anna loves Astrid Lindgren's worlds and often draws inspiration from them. It could be a special color or a pattern that she recreates in her own way. "If you love, for example, James Bond, you can find your very own inspiration from 007's world."

ANNA'S FAVORITES