Take a look at the first snaps to surface of a new furniture range from Swedish fashion studio Acne.

Just like Acne's clothing line, it's clean and fairly minimal in design, but unlike their threads, there's more than whiff of retro - inspired by the work of Swedish designer Carl Malmsten.

In particular, it was Malmsten's New Berlin sofa which provided the key reference for Acne:

"With this sofa as a reference, I started to look at how we work architecturally, instead of just treating, say, the upholstery," says Acne's Jonny Johansson.

"I decided to objectify its form from a perspective play. As we do in fashion, we played with proportion, lineage and structure - stretching, squashing and pulling the simplistic shape to create new sculptural forms.’

Thoughts?