Cow on the Ice

Swedes and Danes don’t say “no worries” if everything is all right… they tell you there is “no cow on the ice.” (Ingen ko på isen).

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My name is Eva. I'm a designer and owner of COW ØN THE ICE, a design shop and studio with All Things Simple, Scandinavian, and Sublime.

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We offer homewares, art toys, paper goods, and accessories (as far from massive production as one can imagine), that will help you create unique moments, interiors, and heartfelt experiences.

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Our products are inspired by the fluctuation of nature; they are simple, tactile, and pleasing to the senses. 

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MANIFESTO:

 

I want you to feel beautiful.

I want your home to be a unique and cozy space filled with love and light. I want you to have a truly exceptional life.

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I am COW ØN THE ICE.

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COW ØN THE ICE is a genuine, independent project built around a fascination with modernism, Scandinavian design, simplicity, quality, and sustainability.

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THE STORY

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As a (roughly) 10-year-old kid, I've been sent away for a term break. If you were lucky, you spent 3 weeks somewhere in the woods with other children, with loads of usual outdoorsy adventures and a typical emotional roller coaster of a "young adult." If you weren't lucky, it could be 21 days of being bullied by fellow shitlings in a setup that felt more like navy seals hell week than a camp for children. This time, I won something in between and, mildly miserable, I really wanted to come back home...

 

In the meantime, my mum decided to use my absence to renovate my tiny room. She ran out of time, as you pretty much always do with DIY. As a result, when I came back, I found my whole little universe packed in black bin bags, and my poor, stressed mother wishing I didn't bless her with my presence for at least another 3 weeks...

I don't think I appreciated her efforts... and I didn't like the pastel yellow she used on the walls. All I wanted was for her to say: "Hello darling, welcome home", made me a hot tea, wrap me in a blanket and let me decompress in my 6 square meters lair...

 

Little did I know that this slightly ungrateful twat (aka me) from the past is responsible for developing the mission for COW ON THE ICE. This burning need to help you create spaces filled with love and light, where you can be at ease... feel welcomed, wanted, sheltered, and yes... wrapped in a blanket. Every single product I'm working on is here to create a soothing atmosphere, capture a happy memory, lovingly stimulate your senses and, in a way, tell you: "Hello darling, welcome home".
 

Fast forward to 2013... I decided to end 12 years relationship with my then-partner. As a result, he ended up in a monastery and I ended up with a very, very red bank account, an unsuccessfully renovated flat (basically piles of rubble), and overwhelming shame that I let my life transform itself into such a mess.

I was saved from ending this misery in the most horrific way possible by my dog that reminded me that no matter how badly I think of myself — he still needed me.

 

Equipped with pure desperation (and some electro tools) I decided to finish the renovation. I was dreaming about a bright, minimal, warm, and cozy space that would allow me to breathe, relax and feel safe. I wanted all the clutter, leftovers of the past life, and rubble to be gone. "I was pushing all the colours through a prism back to white".

My friends didn't want to leave me alone — even though I didn't want to see anyone  They were bringing me soup in jars and leaving it hanging on the door handle, they were trying to help with the renovation, they were trying to help me make everything ready for the Christmas Eve 2014. 

I was born on Christmas Eve so for me this night is quite special. We made it on time, so we could have dinner together and I could live happily ever after.

Have you seen my manifesto?
'I want you to feel beautiful.
I want your home to be a unique and cozy space filled with love and light. I want you to have a truly exceptional life."

Because that's how I felt that Christmas Eve

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You can find our studio & micro store at 32a High Street, Ely, Cambridgeshire.

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