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Fashion designer Katrine Binné turns a Copenhagen factory into her family home

Lucy Pullicino — Tue, 23 May 2023 15:42:01 +0000

This interview is part of “Inside with…” a series of home stories and studio visits produced in collaboration with the Scandinavian design brand Muuto. Through dialogue with different creatives, the series explores the ever-evolving concept of personal space. “Everything you see is memories—something I’ve chosen with my heart. The painting, the decorations, it’s all very personal.”

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Redesigning the future of the office workspace with NORNORM founder Anders Jepsen

Aimee Shirley — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 13:30:00 +0000

Just as no person is an island, no chair, table, or any piece of furniture exists in isolation. Each object that makes up our everyday environment is part of a complex ecosystem shaped by resource extraction, global supply chains, and a linear economy defined by eventually disposing of the old and re-buying the new. The

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All the Way to Paris are the Danish-Swedish design duo using textiles to create a feeling of closeness

Aimee Shirley — Wed, 19 May 2021 08:55:58 +0000

While named after the French capital, All the Way to Paris is a Copenhagen-based design duo composed of Tanja Vibe and Petra Olsson Gendtmet. Having both studied graphic design at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, the pair founded their studio soon after graduation. Working across graphic design, branding, art direction, and illustration, they

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For Holger Schulze, immersive listening is his soundtrack to everyday life

Aimee Shirley — Mon, 20 May 2019 09:19:19 +0000

“To be in the present as a listener is a revolutionary act. We absolutely need it, to be grounded in that way.” Hildegard Westerkamp If listening is a revolutionary act, the approach is a rather relaxed one. It can start anywhere, at any time—at Il Buco, a restaurant in Copenhagen’s neighborhood of Islands Brygge, for

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Defining future classics that blend heritage and innovation with design house &Tradition

Aimee Shirley — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 06:02:11 +0000

Upon entering what feels like a sumptuous modern home in the center of Copenhagen, there’s no immediate tell-tale sign that this is anything other than someone’s personal residence. An enviable plant-filled courtyard leads inside to a sweeping staircase and floor after floor of contemplative living, dining, and study rooms—all overlooking Copenhagen’s oldest park, The King’s

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Danish modernism takes a playful turn in the design studio of Mads Sætter-Lassen and Emil Krøyer

root — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 04:54:42 +0000

There’s no bling in the bedroom, though—only the hallmarks of contemporary Scandinavian design: whitewashed walls, wooden floors, simple accents. And befitting one of Denmark’s most promising young designers, the style throughout his house—Eames chairs in the dining room, Royal Copenhagen cups in the kitchen—is timeless, not tacky. And no wonder. Mads is one half of

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Norm Architects’ Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen on stripping back design to its bare essentials

root — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 04:19:33 +0000

His design philosophy is one now synonymous with the region, based on taking existing architectural norms and stripping these down to the most essential elements. In 2008, along with Kasper Rønn, he founded Copenhagen’s Norm Architects, a studio that, despite its name, has an output that intersects the creative fields. Anything from residential properties in

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Stepping Inside a Geometric Universe: Andreas Jarner

root — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 22:30:48 +0000

His prints feature textured objects contrasted against clean backgrounds. They are aesthetic and somber pauses that draw in the eye and leave the mind at rest. After finishing high school and traveling the world, at age 24, he started his first design company, KBHM. He moved on to study graphic design at the Danish School

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Stine Goya

root — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 05:38:50 +0000

Her beautiful red hair is almost as legendary as her unique and celebrated fashion designs. Stine Goya grew up in a small town north of Copenhagen and started her career in the world of fashion as a talented model. Relocating to London she became so amazed and inspired by the big fashion houses like Chanel,

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Sacha Maric

root — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:02:45 +0000

One of Denmark’s most notorious and popular fashion photographers is actually a Brit. Sacha Maric moved to Copenhagen some years ago, with a degree in fine art and a portfolio full of gruesome pictures from the world’s war zones in his pocket. Now he is shooting campaigns for brands, lookbooks for fashion companies and editorials

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