Every design for Staffanstorp

Wedged between Lund to the west and Malmö to the south-west, Staffanstorp spreads across the fertile Skåne plain, the main town of its own municipality and a place where daily life has a calm, down-to-earth rhythm. Farmland and residential streets meet here, and for the commuter the cities are never far away.

The traces of the town's history show clearly in the names. Brågarp church rises with roots in the 1100s and is a reminder that people have lived and worked the land here a long time. Sockerbruksparken carries in its name the memory of the industry that once marked the place, while the Vikhem ponds and Balders hage give room for walks and stillness close to the houses. It is a small town where you recognise neighbouring farms such as Åstradsgården and Stafn.

An afternoon by the Vikhem ponds, where the water mirrors the sky and the ducks glide past, catches something of what makes Staffanstorp worth remembering. A shirt with the map of the town becomes a way of taking the familiar blocks and the wide plain with you wherever you go – for anyone who knows where Brågarp is without looking.