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Color gradient wooden baskets

Published May 21, 2013
CPH, Design and Flagship Store
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Tags: Baskets, color gradients, copenhagen, Flagship Store, Oak veneer, PCM Design, Wooden basket.

We just received these beautiful one of a kind wooden baskets at our Flagship Store in Copenhagen, and we’re completely in love.

The baskets are designed by the Spanish design company PCM Design and each basket has its own unique color gradient.

PCM Design explains the special technique used to craft the baskets on their website:

“Using a specially constructed machine, an estimated 97-metre-long oak-veneer-strip is slowly glued and coiled up around a wooden base to form a basket. During its production, a marker draws onto the wooden veneer and continuously fades out, leaving a colour gradient on the basket. From very intense colouring at the base to just a hint of the marker at rest, each basket represents all intensities of one colour.”

Check out the video below to see the production in action.

97 metre veneer – high res from PCM design on Vimeo.

The baskets are available in two different sizes with a Diameter of 29,5 cm or 36 cm and comes in several different colors.

If you’re curious to know more about PCM Design you can visit their website right here.

Seletti Exhibition at our Flagship Store

Published May 17, 2013
Design, Events, Flagship Store and Uncategorized
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Tags: Flagship Store, knotchair, Norm12, Seletti, Tablo table, White.

Right now, we are hosting an exhibition with the creative and artistic brand, Seletti, in our Flagship Store in Copenhagen.

The Seletti design philosophy is based upon an unconventional way of thinking, by using materials like glass, metals and porcelain in pieces where the materials are not normally used. Undefined shapes, finished products with an “unfinished” expression, experimentation and imperfection creating new ideas.

In the exhibition is based around a white universe, characterized with a very simple, clear and stringent design language that makes the products come alive in their true shape.

The exhibition includes eye-catching items such as “The Sending Animals” made out of wood, the Hybrid porcelain, build on the idea of pairing two different kinds of porcelain, creating a new and contemporary expression, or the Crystaled lamps in different beautiful colors and figures – just to name a few.

If you are in Copenhagen, come by our Flagship Store from now until mid-June to get a taste the fun and skewed universe of Seletti.

Want to exhibit your designs at Stockholm Furniture Fair in 2014?

Published May 15, 2013
Design, Designers, Events and Fashion & Art
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Tags: design award, Design Competition, exhibition, fair, prize, Stockholm Furniture Fair, time to design, Trade show.

Good news… A new sponsorship agreement between Time to Design – new talent award and Stockholm Furniture Fair means that the winner of Time to Design 2013 can exhibit his or her project at Stockholm Furniture Fair 2014!

Previous winners

Frederik Hardvendel, CEO at The Danish Art Workshops explains the new collaboration: ”Stockholm Furniture Fair has become one of the most important design fairs in the world. Time to Design is a Nordic initiative, and so Stockholm is the perfect place for this year’s winner to show the world the winning project. On behalf of the partners, I am very grateful that the good and industrious people at Stockholmsmässan reserve a prominent place at the fair for Time to Design”.

Winning project 2012: “Fade” By Catherine Aitken, photo: Malene Jorck Heide

Poul Madsen, CEO at Normann Copenhagen elaborates: ”Stockholm Furniture Fair is a fantastic forum for the winner of Time to Design to be part of. It gives the designer a huge visibility and will allow the winner to meet suppliers, manufacturers, and clients. This will elevate an already solid award to a new level.”

Winning project 2011: “Petites Fréres” by Millia Seyppel, photo: Erika Svensson

Are you a designer in the beginning of your career and do you want to develop a project in a professional environment – and then exhibit it – apply before June 14 2013 via www.timetodesign.eu.

Winning project 2010: “Developing Time – Time Developing” by Siren Elise Wilhelmsen, photo: Miriam Lehnart

The fair takes place February 4 – 8, 2014 and is the worlds largest meeting place for Scandinavia furniture design with exhibitors from 58 countries over the world and a total of 31,150 visitors in 2013.

Winning project 2009: ”Spaciale Series” by Lanzavecchia + Wai, photo: Davide Farabegoli

ABOUT TIME TO DESIGN
Since the beginning in 2008, Time to Design has been designed to be a unique platform, which can bring young designers further in a professional career.

Winning project 2008: “Saturated Porosity” by Anne Romme, Photo: Normann Copenhagen

Besides the opportunity to exhibit in Stockholm, the winner receives:

A three month residency at The Danish Art Workshops
6700 Euro to cover material costs sponsored by TA, the Danish Association of Wood and Furniture Industries
Individual career coaching by OeO
A two week exhibition in the Normann Copenhagen Flagship Store

Textile Design Workshop

Published May 14, 2013
Design, Designers and Events
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Tags: Design, fabric, Gabriel, Krabbesholm, normann copenhagen, Simon Legald, workshop.

Two of our designers, Simon Legald and Hans Hornemann, went to Krabbesholm creative school to do a workshop last week.

The workshop focused on the incorporation of fabric in design: The students had 1 week to each draw/create a product that used its own construction to highlight the qualities of the textile.

The workshop was based on the notion that textile rarely stands alone; it is usually seen in context with other elements. The construction is therefore an important part of the expression of a textile product. Simon Legald explains: ”Textile is a 2-dimensional material, but when it is combined with other materials, a spacious and tactile object is created”.

See some of the finished projects below:

Feeling inspired? Check out Krabbesholm and its wide selection of creative courses here or see more pictures from the workshop in the gallery below.

Pins for inspiration

Published May 13, 2013
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Pinterest is an ever increasing place of inspiration for us, and we share more and more of our pictures on this platform. We just love to see all our products being used in creative settings all over the world, and Pinterest is a perfect source for this.

If you are not yet familiar with Pinterest, a great way to start out is to check out our favorite pins on our board “Favorite Pins”.

Pinterest is fun and addictive – Join us on Pinterest and be a part of the creative pinning.

Cubes & pluses on my mind

Published May 10, 2013
Design, Designers, Online Shopping and Our Products
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Tags: Anne Lehmann, bed linen, colorful prints, cool subdued blue, Cube, discrete nude, graphic design, inviting mint, Minimalistic, normann copenhagen, Plus, plus and cube bed linen, Plus&Cube_Story, sandy, warm grey, weaved cotton, Webshop.

Designer Anne Lehmann, has created four beautifully minimalistic sets of bed linen for Normann Copenhagen. Instead of having the usual flowery designs or big and colorful prints, often seen on a lot of bed linen, Anne Lehman has created the Plus and Cube bed linen which has a minimalistic look and soft touch.

Plus Bed Linen, nude and grey

Cube Bed Linen, mint and blue

The graphic expression of the bed linen, made out of pluses and cubes gives it a discreet feel while still making a strong visual impression. Due to its stringent graphic design and simple pattern, the bed linen is neither solely masculine nor feminine which makes it ideal for the bedroom whether you are a couple or single.

Plus and Cube are made of 100% satin weaved cotton making them incredibly soft, smooth and comfortable to sleep in. One of Anne Lehmann’s main focus areas when designing the bed linen has been to ensure a streamlined look with a simple finish.

The designer explains the importance of understanding and accepting the bedroom as a unique space to relax in: “It should be a place where it is both peaceful and enjoyable to be. Therefore, Plus and Cube have repetitive patterns with a simple and calm feel.”

The Plus Bed Linen comes in a sandy, warm grey and a discrete nude. Cube is available in an inviting mint and a cool, subdued blue. The simple graphical patterns and dusty colors make Plus and Cube ideal for most homes. The bed linen is available in 140 x 200 cm and is now available on our online shop. Get Plus here and Cube here:

Normann wins gold at Creative Circle Awards 2013

Published May 8, 2013
Architecture & Tech., Design, Online Shopping and Our Products
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Tags: awards, creative circle, normann copenhagen, Valtech.

Together with our associated digital agency, Valtech, we have won the prestigious Creative Circle Gold Award for our website. The award is presented for exceptional and unique online solutions, within the creative domain.

With the site, we’ve realized our dream of creating a digital universe of inspiration and we’re very proud of the significant recognition the award represents. We aspire to provide our customers with exceptional visual material and look forward to continually inspire you.

Happy Mother’s Day

Published May 7, 2013
Design, Events and Respect
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Tags: Facts about Mother's Day, Grandmother, Honouring mothers, Krenit_Story, Mom, Mormor_Story, Mother, Mother's Day, tradition.

This Sunday is Mother’s Day here in Denmark – a lovely tradition that we have celebrated for many years, but did you know when, where and why it all started?

We didn’t either… So we trawled the internet and here are 4 facts we came up with that you (probably) didn’t know about Mother’s Day.

4 Mother’s Day facts:

1: Mother’s Day was originally invented in USA in 1872 by Julia Ward Howe, an American writer and women’s activist, but it wasn’t until her daughter, Anna Jarvis, spread the awareness in honour of her mother’s work, that the day became known on a wider basis.

2: The day was originally inteded as a day for peace, but ultimately ended up as a day to celebrate mothers in general and their positive contributions to society.

3: Since the 1600′s, a tradition called “Mothering Sunday” or “Carling Sunday” had existed in Britain and Ireland. On this day, children and young people could get the day off from their place of service to visit their mothers. In some places it was a tradition to serve a special type of pancakes (carlings). Who wouldn’t like to come to that?

4: Mother’s day falls quite differently depending on where you are from in the world. The dates stretch all the way from early February to mid October, though most commonly celebrated in March or May.

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother’s_Day
http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mors_dag
http://www.historie-online.dk/special/morsdag/

Mother, you are in-Krenit-ble!

Oh, and don’t forget about your “Mormor” [which is the Danish word for grandmother]…

Solid Nordic Design

Published May 2, 2013
Design, Designers, Our Products and Uncategorized
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Tags: Calacatta Gold, Coffee table, Design, DIY, Lars Beller Fjetland, Marble, Nordic Design, normann copenhagen, self-assembly, Solid, Solid_Story, wood.

Made, quite simply, from one piece of calacatta marble and 9 pieces of nordic ash, our new Solid Table is a true tribute to contemporary minimalism.

Designer Lars Beller Fjetland says: “My basic philosophy as a designer is to design furniture that achieves a sense of both timelessness and durability. With its simple appearance, clean lines and natural materials Solid is a good example of a product that I think and hope will last for generations.”

Solid is a self-assembly table and is simple and intuitive to put together without the use of screws or glue. The parts lock together under the weight of the tabletop, forming a sturdy coffee table with a harmonious and luxurious look.

The design magazine Wallpaper devoted a doublespread to the trend of high-end DIY furniture – and we were thrilled to have both our Solid Table and our Bau Lamp in it!

Solid is already available at our Flagship Store and our webshop.

The LOVE FOR project: Do we need design?

Published May 1, 2013
Design, Designers and Events
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Tags: Dogtrot, Michael Geldmacher, Muuto, normann copenhagen, Patrick Norguet, Peter Bonnen, Poul Madsen, Stefan Diez.

The project LOVE FOR, made by the communication and design studio Dogtrot, is an inside view on design, based on interviews from the Design fair Salone del Mobile Internationale. Designers, entrepreneurs, and architects were asked the same three questions on how they view design today. Amongst the respondents was our CEO at Normann Copenhagen, Poul Madsen.

Poul Madsen CEO at Normann Copenhagen

Do we need design today?

Poul Madsen believes that design is important, as our personality often is expressed through how we dress and live.

Designer Patrick Norguet says: Design has a great importance as it is an expression of life and the development of human needs, and how these needs will be conformed into beautiful designs.

Designer Michael Geldmacher argues that design is about fantasy and imagination. Design is an visualization of evolution and an important part of humanity.

Designer Patrick Norguet

Can Design be accessible?

Design is all about accessibility says designer Michael Geldmacher. It is art happening in the mind.

Poul Madsen explains how accessibility is a challenge for producers. He uses our new product line as an example of how accessibility can vary from product prize to the availability of different products.

Designer Michael Geldmacher

How could communication add value to design?

Poul Madsen argues that design is not just about the product, but also the story behind. When purchasing a well communicated product, you also purchases a statement of your lifestyle.

Peter Bonnen CEO of Muuto believes that communication is important to add emotional value to a functional and practical product.

Michael Geldmacher speaks about how the importance of communication effects design. Good communication adds value in the spirit of design, so you have to get your design and communication in line, if you want to succeed.

Peter Bonnen CEO at Muuto

Our thoughts on Project LOVE FOR

The LOVE FOR project is mainly about how human development and understanding of products have a great influence on how design is today. As Poul Madsen argues, design is not a basic need to survival, but it has become a statement of who you are. Design, communication and purchase experience has an comprehensive influence on how consumers as well as producers sees good design today.

Visit project LOVE FOR and hear more opinions on why we need design.