“This is good design” was the first thing we said to Jesper K. Thomsen when he showed us his ideas for the Camping series. Now we are not the only ones to think his indoor furniture are awesone.

Camping has been awarded with the prestigious design award 2008-2009 Good Design Award. The award is given by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture & Design and Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd and is awarded to quality design of excellence form, function and aesthetic.

The Camping series was awarded with its first design award at a jury session in New York less than a year after the launch. In February 2009, the series was launch for the first time in Scandinavian at Stockholm Furniture Fair. The world premiere was in April 2009 at the Salone Internazionale Mobiles in Milan where Normann Copenhagen exhibited its new furniture collection New Danish Modern where the Camping series got lot of attention.

The series consists of chairs, table, stool and daybed in moulded beech wood.

Learn more about Camping on our homepage
www.normann-copenhagen.com/camping

See how the Camping furniture are – made in Denmark.

This is Nicholai Wiig Hansen’s NW1 table. It is made of more than 62 kg of wet clay in a Danish pottery. The decoration took several hours to get just right. Below is a video we made from the very first production of the NW1 table.

The inspiration behind the table’s colors springs from Nordic painters like Lundstrøm and Munck where especially the colors blue, green, brown and beige are used. Art is a natural source of inspiration for Nicholai Wiig Hansen who grew up in an artistic family.

Nicholai Wiig Hansen explains: ”The basis was to work totally without compromises and with regards to trends and tendencies. I wanted to create a larger object with a well-known Nordic decoration in stoneware.”

“Traditionally stoneware is used for small objects like teapots and bowls. For me it was important to design a timeless piece of furniture where the human workmanship plays a central part. I love the fact that you can see that the table is made by hands.”

The NW1 table will never pass the IKEA test. – doesn’t fold flat – a nightmare to ship – and takes forever to make… we love it.

We are happy to show you our latest design made by Clayides. You may have seen the Dahlia pattern before. It is simular pattern which you will find in a lot of flowers and traditional carpets.

With a background in traditional floor ornaments, Claydies has used geometry and reflections to interpret rugs in a new way. Using the motive of the Dahlia flower, hence the name of the rug.

Tine explains “We got hold of Karen’s old compass and a bunch of coloured pencils and played around with simple geometric forms and reflections. In this way the motif of the Dahlia was created and we believe that the rug has now achieved both a classic royal and a modern funky appearance”.

The Dahlia rug is both decorative and will bring some colour into your home.

The Dahlia rug is part of the New Danish Modern collection – all Danish designers and all produced in Denmark.

Other products designed by Claydies:

Blueclay bowl

Grass vase

True feelings

What would the world look like if you were a fly with a passion for design!!!

View from the stage of our flagship store.

The new Dahlia rugs designed by Claydies.

Hummel sneakers. Their logo is not a fly, but a bumblebee!

The pictures were taken with an iPhone using a program called TiltShiftGen

We are proud when magazines like Wallpaper contact us because they want to feature one of our products. But sometimes the result can be a bit difficult to spot even for us. The picture above is from page 280/281 of the Wallpaper October issue. Can you spot the Normann Copenhagen product? – if not click below.

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- and yes it is not easy to spot.

- in fact we had to go through all 322 pages twice before we found it!

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Wallpaper is featuring the Camping table which is designed by Danish designer Jesper K. Thomsen and is part of the New Danish Modern collection.

Watch a interview with the designer below (in Danish).

Learn how Wallpaper made the House of straw picture

Two Danish Prinsesses spotted together. To the left Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mary of Denmark. To the right Camilla Stærk Danish fashion designer.

Camilla Stærk is telling HRH about her Signature collection at the Gallery in Copenhagen. Both Princesses standing on the Spine Rug, also designed by Camilla Stærk.

More info about the Spine Rug right here. To buy, click here.

This is our new legs – table legs that is. One Table legs are quite simple, made out of a long metal tube. The designer is Nicholai Wiig Hansen. He is also the designer of the new Bob-game, the +30 kilo heavy NW1 stoneware table… ahhh we do love Danish minimalism.

Jesper K. Thomsens Camping series spotted at the Personal Shopper trend area at Tendence 2009 in Frankfurt.

Today we reveal our new products at the Danish design fair, Formland. Next week we will be showing them all on our homepage as well as here on the blog. Can’t wait for those nice and polished pics, well head for the design-fair in Jylland or beam over to our photo-archive at flickr.

Copenhagen Fashion Week is just about to hit town. Normann Copenhagen has teamed up with fashion designer Camilla Stærk melting the two worlds of fashion and interior design – the result is the Spine Rug which is now available. Spine Rug is part of the New Danish Modern collection .

The untamed, the dramatic and the distinguished are the essence behind Spine Rug. With its dramatic print in grey black shades Spine Rug has been designed for all of us who love fashion and design with delectable qualities. Its made out of 100% wool.

Inspiration comes from her favourite muse, Karen Blixen, and her meeting between Africa and her Danish roots.  Accordingly this provides the inspiration behind her spring/summer collection 2009.

Camilla Stærk says: ” For a long time it has been my passion to design products for the home. For me a floor rug must be interesting without dominating the room. It was natural to work with the grey black nuances and in this way remain faithful to the colour scheme which I most often work with. In addition to this the quality of the material makes the tones of the colours intermingle and the print is emphasised in Spine Rug. In this way the print also looks good in large sizes.”

Camilla Stærk was so taken by the African inspired prints that she felt prompted to see the print in its full form – enlarged and rectangular. Through doing this, the grey black spine’s print was transformed to the sustaining element in this elegant floor rug, the Spine Rug.

Normally based in New York, Camilla Stærk is known for her creations of quality design for clothes, shoes, bags and various accessories. Spine Rug is also redolent of her work which is characterised by quality and black nuances.