I've been rather careful in my production, says Anki Gneib. "I want it to feel right - ideas need time to mature."

But despite her self-critical approach, Anki Gneib has produced a great deal since she graduated from University College of Arts Crafts and Design in 1993. She won the Excellent Swedish Design award, and received Sköna Hem magazines’ Furniture of the year award in 1997 for the ingeniously slanted shelf Squeeze.
That wasn't the only competition she won in 1997. Svensk Form and Woodex put out a call for modern furniture inspired by the folk culture of the province of Halsingland.

"I travelled around looking at old houses and museums she says" and discovered that I loved the textured look of their cabinet doors and drawers".
Anki was already working on sketches for a dresser and when she added a banded profile to the drawers her contest entry was complete.

The chest and cabinet series Hambo was first produced in co-operation with the arrangers of the contest. It is now manufactured by Fogia, which has taken over Hambo and the bedframes that go with it, Sambo, Delsbo and Enbo.
At a distance the dresser looks like a little cabinet. Only when you come close is it obvious that the horizontal lines are not part of a door, but drawers that can be pulled out .

"I love to do things that surprise you. That aren't always exactly what they seem to be, she says"
Anki also decorates public spaces. Context comes first in her decorating philosophy.

"Furniture design gives you more freedom, more room to play with particular ideas. Once I've designed a piece of furniture, it's up to someone else to decide how it will fit in. And I love seeing how other people think my furniture should fit in. "