Icehotel

Ella Jonsson

Title: Copywriter at Vinter

Email: ella.jonsson@vintermail.se

Web: twitter.com/ellajonsson

Ella Jonsson is a copywriter and author that lives in Luleå, Sweden. She loves vast forests and large cities, loneliness and crowds of people, silence and loud music.

Ella says: I’m enchanted with the words and colourful stories that live in Swedish Lapland. These stories carry knowledge, understandings and unique experiences; they exist only here and need to be made available to the rest of the world. My first novel Aftonrodnad vacker natt was published the summer of 2010, the main story takes place in the inland of Norrbotten. After 10 years in south Sweden and travelling around the world, it has become easier for me to see all the stories at home. It’s strange isn’t it; that you need to go away in order to find home?

Articles by Ella Jonsson

A cool reward that warms

It may be one of the most unusual airport transfers ever — by dogsled across a white expanse. In any event, it is a spectacular start to a weekend of Arctic adventure, 200 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle. 90 eager, yelping dogs wait...
Design with a feel for ice and snow

At home in the Netherlands, Marjolein Vonk works as an interior decorator and stylist. Each winter since 2001, she has returned to ICEHOTEL. With 4 suites and 4 ice churches to her credit, Marjolein is a veteran of ice and snow sculpting. For the...
The creative process that reshapes nature

When winter is at its coldest, magic blossoms at ICEHOTEL in Jukkasjärvi. The hotel's snow corridors are tunnels of adventure in which each suite opens the door to a whole new world. It is spellbinding and surrealistic. But how does ICEHOTEL take...
Love blossoms in ice and snow

Eternal vows and evanescence have a magical attraction for couples from around the world. Each winter, about 150 weddings are celebrated at ICEHOTEL, Jukkasjärvi. Perhaps it is because, in this unique setting, in the here and now that only happens...
Sweet dreams surrounded by art and design

We are in a privileged situation here at ICEHOTEL in Jukkasjärvi. Living so close to nature, even living off nature, with an abundance of pure freshwater from the Torne River, we are able to tap this inexhaustible source daily. I feel a sense of...
Sally Persson, Sales Manager Group, Conference & Incentive

Sally, tell us about your job. “I work with planning and sales of larger events for groups, conferences and incentives. These account for about 20% of our business at ICEHOTEL. Arrangements are always specially adapted, exclusive and unique for ea...
Håkan Söderqvist, Guide ICEHOTEL Adventure

Tell us about your work at ICEHOTEL. 'Hunting and fishing are my passion, so I love my work. My job is to accompany guests on outings in the magnificent country surrounding Jukkasjärvi. River systems in the vicinity are teeming with fish, there ar...
A tearful meeting of ice and magnetite

The two materials are so totally different to work with. Ice is pure and transparent; the material has an intrinsic lightness. Magnetite, on the other hand, is heavy and much denser. Working in magnetite is a hard and dirty job.” says designer Sof...
Kiruna moves you

There is something special about Kiruna, the city nestled in the middle of the mountain wilderness of Swedish Lapland, 200 km north of the Arctic Circle. This is the home of the world’s largest underground iron ore mine. This is where the...
THOMS & NILSSON: Top design with ice

We are met by a flurried explosion as we enter Oktagården and the ice artists’ morning meeting, a sharp contrast to the monochrome bluish white, silent and frozen winter landscape glittering outside the window. The explosion inside is a tumbling o...
TORNE RIVER – the mother of ICEHOTEL

It’s fall, and the temperature is dropping. Summer’s warmth rises in vapourfrom the river. Now the water and the cold begin a game of cat and mouse. The river seems to flow more slowly each day. In late-October, the current gives in to the cold,...
In Sauna Veritas - ”In sauna there is the truth”

The sauna culture is flourishing around the world, and thrives even in Swedish Lapland. svenska Bastuakademin, the swedish sauna academy, was inaugurated in 1988 with the opening of Kulturbastun, the Culture sauna, at the open air historical museu...