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A Award-Winning Rainbow

Published January 12, 2012 Design , Our Products , Respect Leave a Comment
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We are happy to announce that our colourful and decorative Rainbow Trivet, designed by the German design trio Ding3000, has been awarded the prestigious 2011 GOOD DESIGN Award.

From the designers point of view:

“Design has a magical ability to make products desirable as opposed to merely functional. When we developed Rainbow Trivet it was a question of finding the optimal folding mechanism, making the finished trivet both aesthetically attractive and practical to use. Rainbow Trivet has a playful expression and looking at the colours puts you in a good mood.” 

The award is hosted by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture & Design and Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd and is awarded for quality designs of the highest form, function and aesthetic appearance. GOOD DESIGN Award was established in Chicago in 1950 by Edgar J. Kaufmann Jr. in collboration with design pioneers such as Eero Saarinen, Charles & Ray Eames and Florence Knoll.

The winners of Be Creative and Win 2011

Published October 24, 2011 Our Products , Respect Leave a Comment
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We are proud to announce the winners of the  ”Be creative and win 2011″ competition.
During the competition we recieved many great submissions. Though this is the fourth time running the competition we are still surprised and amazed by the creativity of the submissions. We recieved 28 submissions which got 1349 likes!  Thanks to all of you who submitted and especially to all of you who “liked” on Facebook.

The winners are:

Most creative idea

Philip Christensen, turned the Norm 06 lamp, a swing vase, and a Krenit Salad set into a beautiful swan. Congratulations!

Best Craftmanship

Congratulations to Emma Sivell!
From the first time we saw the three bears we fell in love with them. It takes quite an imagination and craftmanship to turn a wine stopper, the Kula hooks and the fusion ladle into three bears.

Most liked picture on Facebook. 

Pip by Tanja Nørgaard

Just like last year we let our fans on Facebook pick their favourite. And this year it was “Pip” by Tanja Nørgaard, with more than 200 Likes. Congratulations.

See all the submissions on Facebook or Flickr

A picture is better than a 1000 words..

Published July 27, 2011 Food , Our Products , Respect 1 Comment
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When have you met an excellent sales person able to communicate a product to you by telling multiple stories and creating several pictures in your head, making you desperate to buy her/his products?

Their latest feature of adding recipes for drinks and food is mind-blowing and plays with almost all your senses. Still nor Scope or we have figured out how to have add smell and taste to the online experience – but mouth-watering it is.

Experience for yourself and start cooking – no need to understand Japanese:)

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We spotted a pile of houses – Vitra houses!

Published July 19, 2011 Design , Respect 1 Comment
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At the Normann Copenhagen flagship store in Copenhagen, we have mixed brands and products that we love, trying to create inspiring settings of lifestyle and shopping experience. One of the trendsetters of the design industry has set new standards taking a brand showroom to a whole new level.

The Swiss furniture company Vitra has a stunning collection of world class architecture at their Weil am Rhein location in the crossing between Germany, Switzerland and France. We find the Vitra house from 2010 to be the best of this impressiv collection covering some of the biggest names around.

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Claydies = anything but ordinary!

Published June 1, 2011 Designers , Respect Leave a Comment
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We love super creative people. They inspire us, provoke us and make us move in new directions. Creative people are always on the move – trying new things, discovering new land. One of the best examples of super creativity are the Danish design duo Claydies.


Claydies a.k.a. Karen Kjældgård-Larsen and Tine Broksø

One project from Claydies is True feelings where they designed a raw and romantic porcelain series blindfolded… we don’t know if they in fact were naked during the process… we will ask them next time they drop by the Normann HQ.


Killing a vase! – part of the Chamber of horrors exhibition at Malmö Art Museum.

A ceramicist´s worst nightmare was Claydies contribution to thinking out of the box when it comes to creative use of clay. They exhibited the murder of 12 clay pots at the Malmö Art Museum.


The making of the Grass vase

At Normann Copenhagen we are proud to produce 3 of Claydies designs. The Grass vase, the True feelings candle holder and the beautiful woolen rugs Dahlia which will be back in stock this summer.

Claydies just published their very own magazine full of fun (like a Claydies Crosswords) and exciting stories… it’s a must read for anyone who like creativity and design.

Size doesn’t matter!

Published March 30, 2011 Design , Respect 1 Comment
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What do you do if you live on a small iceland in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and you want to attract the attention of the rest of the design world?

By March 24-27th we have been attending the 2011 edition of Design March in Reykjavik, Iceland.

With its mid Atlantic location and a headcount of little over 300.000 heads of all ages, it is really impressive to see their involvement and dedication towards spreading their viewpoints on design.

Like Denmark, Iceland is a small nation, with a low headcount. With much less of a Design tradition, design institutions and design network, it is mindblowing what they have been able to achive in only 3 years of running the Design March.

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A LEGO shower!

Published March 3, 2011 Design , Respect 2 Comments
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How awesome is this. Imagine taking a shower but instead of drops of water falling on you – its Lego bricks. Well now you can. The super creative people from Billund has created the worlds first Lego brick shower. Spotted in Copenhagen during the Lego World expo.

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Learn how to wrap – in one minute!

Published December 8, 2010 CPH , Respect Leave a Comment
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Didn’t you get your gift wrapped at the store – don’t panic – help is right here.

If you are a skilled at wrapping gifts – nothing new here! But if you are like most of us, and don’t know the Zen of wrapping you might want to watch this video. In just one minute Peter Elmegaard – our Flagship store director  will show you how easy it is to gift wrap.

We like a bit of Sweden in Copenhagen

Published December 1, 2010 CPH , Respect Leave a Comment
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This is the Swedish bank SEB… nothing interesting about that. But take a look at how the brand new SEB HQ in CPH interacts with the surroundings. Note that the architects (Danes of cause) have made holes in the deck – to give room for the trees. What a awesome thing to do. The front of the building is created so that it looks like a Swedish mountain side with trees, bushes, grass and and  moss… when the result is this beautiful we don’t mind having a bit of Sweden in Denmark!


Pictures by tsaaby

And the winner is!

Published August 26, 2010 Design , Fashion & Art , Respect Leave a Comment
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This Thursday, the 26th August, the winner of the Time to Design award was announced. The award was presented at an event at the Danish Art Workshops. Designers from 34 nations had applied for this year’s competition, but there was only one winner.


Siren Elise Wilhelmsen, this year’s winner of the Time to Design Award

We are proud to announce this year’s winner; the 28-year-old Siren Elise Wilhelmsen from Norway.
She won with her design project Developing Time – Time Developing. The winning project is a development of her graduation project from the University of Arts Berlin.

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Normann Copenhagen is a way of living - a mindset. We like to think of it as putting on a pair of glasses and seeing the world in a different way. We love to challenge the conventional design rules.

On this blog we write about our design, the designers, and interesting things we spot around our hometown - Copenhagen.

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