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STØREN
We give our identity through garment. You wear where you are from.
STØREN is a Norwegian clothing brand. Each piece begins with one place: its landmark drawn rather than photographed, its
coordinates set small on the chest, and its name as type. The coordinates on the garment
are the coordinates of the place it depicts — not of the brand.
The world is the shop. Its first places are in Norway — the ones we can walk from
memory — and the map stays open to the whole world: a place earns its garment by being
someone’s answer to where are you from, and the map takes proposals.
What is real
One garment physically exists: Frogner. Until the made sample is photographed,
the images of it here are visualisations of the real design, and each one is captioned
Visualisation. Everywhere else you will see an engraved drawing labelled
Drawing — not yet made. Nothing on this site is presented as a photograph:
every generated image is captioned Visualisation or Study.
No synthetic fibres are used in any STØREN garment.A request takes no payment: it is recorded in this browser
only, and nothing is charged.
How a piece is made
A place is chosen and drawn. The drawing goes on the back; the place’s coordinates
go on the chest. Each design is one edition of 100, made to commission and numbered
1–100 in order of payment; the number is on the neck label.
Studies — not for sale
Earlier studies of the system, made while the first piece was being designed. None of
them is the made garment, and none of them can be commissioned.
Where the ground comes from
Every outline is a real object in OpenStreetMap, recorded with its id. Where OpenStreetMap
holds a place only as a point and no boundary exists, the site draws a circle of stated
radius around that point and says so, rather than inventing a border or borrowing the
surrounding borough.
The same honesty as everywhere else on this site — including about
what is not settled yet. Anything in a dashed box is a fact we do not have yet, and it
will be filled in before a single krone is charged.
No payment is taken yet — a
commission recorded here is a request, and nothing is charged.
Pieces are numbered in order of payment. A number is used once: if a buyer withdraws,
the number is not given out again and the count does not go down. If your payment comes
through after your size is already full, it gets no number and we refund everything you
paid within 14 days.
Delivery
Each piece is made to commission and delivered to the address you give at checkout.
Estimated delivery: by 31 March 2027. If that date moves, you hear about
it at the address you gave. If we are late, you can give us a reasonable extra deadline.
If we do not deliver within it, you can cancel the purchase and get back everything you
paid. In some cases you can cancel at once, and you may be entitled to compensation
(forbrukerkjøpsloven §§ 23 and 24). Risk passes to you
when the piece is delivered; the fourteen days run from that day.
Right of withdrawal (angrerett)
Under the Norwegian Cancellation Act (angrerettloven) you may withdraw from the purchase
within fourteen days from the day the piece reaches you, without giving
any reason. Tell us clearly — the statutory form below works, an email works, and so
does a call to [telephone] —
and return the piece within fourteen days of telling us. The refund, including original
delivery, is made within fourteen days of your notice with the same means of payment you
used; once made, your bank may take a few more business days to show it. You bear the
direct cost of the return, and the piece should come back unworn,
as it left.
The Norwegian Consumer Purchases Act (forbrukerkjøpsloven) applies. If the piece
has a defect, contact us at [contact email]. Write to us
first; we answer within fourteen days. You have at least two months from discovering a
defect to report it (up to two years overall) — no rush to a specific date — and
we will offer repair or replacement first; if that is not possible or not done in reasonable
time, you are entitled to a price reduction or to cancel the purchase. Unresolved, you may
bring the matter to Forbrukertilsynet (the Norwegian Consumer Authority) for mediation, and
then to the Consumer Disputes Commission (Forbrukerklageutvalget). The former EU online
dispute resolution platform has been discontinued.
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Frogner
59.9275° N 10.6989° E
Visualisation — The back: the avenue to the Monolith, drawn in graphite.
Bare trees in symmetry, and light the colour of old paper.
Crewneck. 70% merino wool, 30% cashmere. Undyed.
On the back: the avenue to the Monolith.
Made to commission. Numbered 1–100 in order of payment. Unisex, one relaxed cut, slightly oversized. Sizes: S, M, L.
Price: 2 995 kr. Delivery in Norway included. Delivery by 31 March 2027.
14 days to change your mind, counted from delivery. Return postage is yours.
Made in China.
The Monolith is carved from a single block of Iddefjord granite. It stands 17 metres and carries 121 human figures.
Drawn in January
Vigeland installation completed 1949
212 sculptures across 45 hectares
Frogner — history
1750
Frogner Manor
Major Hans Jacob Scheel built the four-wing manor. Oslo municipality bought the estate in 1896 to secure land for the growing city.
Hans Jacob Scheel
1904
The estate opens to the public
After the 1896 purchase the city decided to make the grounds a public recreation and sports area. The first landscaped parts opened in 1904.
Oslo municipality
1921
Vigeland’s contract with the city
Gustav Vigeland signed a contract leaving all his work — sculptures, drawings, engravings and models — to Oslo. In return he kept the use of his studio for life, and it became a museum after his death.
Gustav Vigeland
1947
The Fountain
Vigeland designed the fountain in 1906. The basin and its six bronze giants were put in position in 1944, and the water was turned on in 1947.
Gustav Vigeland
1929–1942
The Monolith
A 280-tonne block of Iddefjord granite was raised in 1928. Three masons — Nils Jönsson, Karl Kjær and Ivar Broe — carved it over fourteen years. It was first shown to the public at Christmas 1944.
Nils Jönsson · Karl Kjær · Ivar Broe
1949
The Wheel of Life
Vigeland modelled the Wheel of Life in 1933–34 as a figure of eternity. It was erected in 1949.
