What do you actually do during Milan Design Week, apart from admiring installations, checking out new releases, and walking from one end of the city to the other? We met CEO Knud Erik Hansen of Carl Hansen & Søn in the Milan showroom for an interview – and experienced a moment that felt like a piece of Denmark: calm, clear, with a breath of fresh air in the summerly overheated atmosphere of Milan’s aperitivo culture. A cup of coffee before the talk Knud Erik Hansen brings something to
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For us, the end of Milan Design Week means one thing above all else every year: the anticipation of 3daysofdesign in Copenhagen. It makes perfect sense, really – and that’s precisely why it’s so fascinating to see how differently these two design worlds operate. Milan is one great work of art. The city becomes a stage, with design blending seamlessly with art, fashion and architecture. Amidst installations, courtyards and aperitifs, that characteristic sense of excitement takes hold,
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We may no longer live as we did 50 years ago, but we seem to enjoy furnishing our homes in that style. Anyone who strolled through Milan during Design Week this year or sought inspiration at 3daysofdesign in Copenhagen could hardly have missed one theme: re-editions. Everywhere, classic designs were being reissued, reimagined and recontextualised. But what was once considered a marginal phenomenon – especially for collectors, connoisseurs and design historians – has now become a real driving
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At 3daysofdesign Copenhagen 2025 our colleagues from smow enjoyed not only the pleasure of conversation with Erwan Bouroullec, but the chance to listen in to one of everyone's favourite Breton discuss his views on, positions to, approaches to design, and the creative power of embracing differing opinion, views, positions, approaches....... It's still early in the morning, and we're having our first coffee after our first long night in Copenhagen. We're still tired, but also full of
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In centuries past traditions were something that were established slowly, often becoming such long after those who had began them, who had understood their origins, meaning and function in contemporary society, had shuffled off this mortal coil; in our contemporary world traditions arrive over night, no-one having the patience to wait, no-one wanting to miss out on anything. In which sense, celebrating in 2019 its second edition, our traditional 3daysofdesign Copenhagen #embassytour. As
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"Monsieur, with these Rocher you are really spoiling us!" Ever since Ferrero brought a touch of self-congratulatory kitsch to the savoir-faire of international diplomacy, we've felt a great empathy for the concept of the Embassy. And while the years since we first heard those words may not have seen us follow an illustrious, freely debonair, diplomatic career, we do have as a substitute the embassy design exhibition. 3daysofdesign Copenhagen 2018 offered such a wealth and variety of embassy
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