Art´keting wants Sumo and Geo
We were proud that our Sumo pouf and Geo thermos were chosen to be part of the Art´keting trendzone during Maison & Objet.

Bike Event in very cool Merci Merci in Paris
On Saturday January 21st the Merci Merci shop had an opening event for their new  ”Bike” exhibition. You can still make it. The exhibition runs from January 18th to February 18th 2012.

British designer Tom Dixon, who visited Normann Copenhagen Flagship Store in August 2010 where he gave an interview, has designed this huge ”bike lamp”. We like it!

The Normann Bike as part of the exhibition.

Our stand at Maison & Objet January 2012

We attended the Maison & Objet trade show in Paris, where we showed our spring 2012 novelties to the design world.

The Tablo table, designed by Nicolai Wiig Hansen, now comes in three new colours. The Sumo pouf designed by Simon Legald, here shown in black and turquise.

Flag Candleholder by Jonas Wagell

Knife Pot by DesignWright.

New products spring 2012

For lighting they used our Hang lamp designed by Rikke Hagen. The soft retro inspiration and the classic design make every room special. The lamp is a good example of functionallity and simplicity.

Ingredients:
4 chicken breasts
4 thin slices of parma ham
4 tbsp. feta cheese
2 large red onions
3-5 spring onions
1 cup of black olives
8 -10 cloves of garlic
Rosemary, thyme
Olive oil
Salt & pepper

Method:

• Add 1 tbsp. feta cheese on each chicken breast. Wrap a piece of parma ham around each chicken breast.
• Place the chicken breasts in the Familia Warm dish.
• Cut the red onions with peel into slices and put them in the dish along with the other vegetables and the spreaded herbs.
• Pour olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
• Get the dish into the oven for 45-60 minutes at 200°C.

Serving suggestions:
Tastes great with salad served in a Krenit bowl.

With its soft, voluminous forms, this is a chair you can snuggle into as well as appreciate for its edgy, humorous contribution to any room. Bunny is a fresh interpretation of the classic ear chair. The chair’s cheeky and playful design is further emphasised by the tightly-strapped strings wrapped around the soft, upholstered body.

Soft Edges.

Tight Strings.

Bunny comes in three colors grey, pink and purple.

Straight Back – soft shapes.

Bunny is created by the designer duo Iskos-Berlin aka Boris Berlin and Aleksej Iskos.

The designers explain : “We have always felt that the ear chair has somewhat been forgotten as a style of furniture. Most people associate it with grandpa sitting with his newspaper or with granny and her knitting. It was therefore exciting to reinterpret the chair in a fun way, with recollections of the cute cuddly toys we had as children and of the soft Bunny – now also for adults!”

Buy Bunny online from our online shop.

Impressions from Urban Nature by Eckmann Alive Studio:

Our True Feelings Candle holder as flowerpot.

Impressions from “Well-being” by Design Circus:

Impressions from Mono mind by Design Circus

Our Flagship Store manager Peter Elmegaard exploring a tent with a road-trip-feeling.

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.

Tomorrow, we are attending our first fair this year, Formland in Herning, it is the first of many.

On the fairs we will present our latest additions to the Normann Copenhagen family.

Not going to the fairs, or just curious? Find a sneakpeak below. Click here to explore the online version of our  brand new catalogue.

Normann Copenhagen has been awarded the Denmark global innovation award (gia) for ‘most innovative store’ for our 1,700 m² Flagship Store at Østerbro in Copenhagen. Gia is an international award presented to the most innovative and exciting store in the field of interior design and décor in Denmark.

The award is then presented on an international scale, with Denmark competing against the rest of the world at The International Home + Housewares Show in Chicago in March 2012. We won in the ‘small independent retailers’ category.

“We are delighted and proud to receive the Denmark gia, and we are excited about the international prize-giving event in 2012. We want Normann Copenhagen to be an ongoing source of inspiration for our visitors 24/7. As an example, we design a new window display every evening,” explains Peter Elmegaard, Retail Director and co-owner.

In 2005, we opened the 1700 m² Flagship Store in the heart of Copenhagen. The former cinema is now home to a unique shopping experience with an extensive selection of design and lifestyle products, as well as fashion, by high-end brands. The experiential side of the old cinema has been preserved, and exhibitions and events provide the platform for extraordinary design experiences.

Whether Normann Copenhagen becomes the overall global winner among 20 other winners from five continents will be revealed at a big gala show during the International Home + Housewares Show taking place between10-13 March, 2012.

We are proud to be featured in both the Guardians Insider Guide  and the Monocle Denmark Survey .

We look forward welcoming design lovers all over the world.

We would like to wish you a very merry christmas and happy holidays from the Normann Copenhagen Headquarters

We like to end this year with a backflash on some of the past events of the year.

So here it goes! In 2011 we:

had a flood  

lit up the city  

had a drink

named it dropit

got new friends