{"id":3823,"date":"2022-04-22T09:51:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T09:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holmenlofoten.no\/?p=3823"},"modified":"2023-01-09T09:04:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T09:04:23","slug":"holmen-lofoten-featured-in-local-folk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holmenlofoten.no\/nb\/holmen-lofoten-featured-in-local-folk\/","title":{"rendered":"Holmen Lofoten featured in Local Folk"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are proud to be part of and share our story in the Northern Norway issue of Local Folk, a design platform where you find stories about artists, designers and entrepreneurs from Norway:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘When Ingunn Rasmussen was growing up, Holmen was, in her words, \u201creally in the middle of nowhere.\u201d With no bridges or roads from the mainland to the distant western end of the Lofoten archipelago\u2014and only an infrequent ferry service\u2014life had its challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou had to be as self-sufficient as possible. And that meant making do with whatever resources you had to hand.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now the founder and owner of Holmen Lofoten, a remote hotel and fine restaurant in the Arctic Circle, Ingunn was born into a family of 13 children. Her father was a fisherman, she tells me when we speak on the phone\u2014just like most of the men in this part of Norway\u2014while her mother was a seamstress and housewife. Together, Ingunn says, they would put whatever they could on the table, from hunting, fishing, or foraging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was inevitably a locally-focused, sustainable way of life,\u201d Ingunn tells me. \u201cIt had to be. You had to follow the shifting patterns of nature and the weather. This is how we grew up, by learning how to survive in\u2014and to appreciate\u2014the nature around us.\u201d’<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full feature her<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n