Danes are among the leaders in world design and Copenhagen offers everything from furniture design and to textile design at museums and showrooms as well as several design related events.
If you want to catch up on current Danish designers and design trends, then Dansk Design Center is a good place to start. But in department stores like Illums Bolighus, Bodum Home and Hay House you will also get a good impression of the Danes ability to design.
Every second year the world known design festival INDEX takes place.
01.Feb.2012 - 29.Feb.2012
The exhibition at Danish Design Center is a chronological journey through the last ten years of Danish fashion.
Danish Design Center introduces Arne Jacobsen's private home in Charlottenlund in miniature form for the first time.
Artium is Scandinavian design par excellence.
Bodum's flagship store is located on Strøget.
CasaShop is a super design shop located in the charming area of Store Regnegade.The 400 square metres is packed with designer goods like furniture and lighting from Italy and Spain. Danish items are of course also represented, for instance Arne Jacobsen's Egg and Swan Chairs.
Big, colourful rings, beautiful bracelets and petite necklaces. At Casten's Gallery you will find all of the above - and lots more. The jewelry artists at the gallery are inspired by fairytales, and so you might feel like a princess when you walk into this gallery.
Corfixen is a shop at Frederiksberg selling textiles, ceramics, glass and other designs for interior decoration.
The Danish Design Centre, designed by internationally acclaimed Danish architect Henning Larsen, opened its doors to the public in 2000. The centre houses two permanent exhibitions and also features a number of changing special exhibitions.
The Danish Design Museum in Copenhagen offers displays of decorative art, crafts, and industrial designs from the Western world and Asia from the late Middle Ages and up to the present.
One never leaves this Vesterbro design shop empty-handed. At Designer Zoo you get two vast floors of changing exhibits and a total of seven active workshops. The shop offers a varied selection of Danish design, art products and crafts, created by the in-house and visiting designers.
Designers Remix Collection has its own store in Pilestræde in Copenhagen as well as in the department stores ILLUM and Magasin du Nord.Designers Remix is an international high-end line of clothing designed to be as unpredictable as the women who wear them. In a style that’s sexy, edgy and slightly askew.
29.Jan.2012 - 29.Feb.2012
This year the Danish designer Finn Juhl would have turned 100. This causes for a celebration, and so The Art museum Ordrupgaard and the Finn Juhl House invites everybody to come by for a day with tours, jazz and beautiful furnitures.
The Art museum Ordrupgaard celebrates the centenary of Finn Juhl. His private home built in 1942 - right next to Ordrupgaard - is open to the public.
In the large GUBI showroom in Frihavnen you can see world class Danish furniture design unfold on 2,000 square metres. GUBI is one of the biggest Danish design successes in modern times, and their furniture can be seen in places like the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
Hay CPH are located both in the shopping street Strøget and in Pilestræde. A both places you will find Danish interior design in a class of its own, furniture in unconventional shapes, and smalller often funny things for the home.
Danish interior design in a class of its own.
Illums Bolighus, located on Strøget, is the premier centre in Scandinavia for Danish and international design.Furniture, lamps, kitchen and bathroom articles, ceramics, porcelain, silver, and glassware.
Paustian offers the best in Danish and international design.
The Radisson Blu Royal Hotel was designed by Danish architect and designer Arne Jacobsen for the airline SAS in 1960.The entire hotel – from the exterior facade through to the stainless-steel cutlery used in the restaurant and the Swan and Egg chairs gracing the lobby – was designed by Arne Jacobsen himself. Jakobsen is considered to be the godfather of Danish design.