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This is Good Design!

Published January 14, 2010 Our Products 2 Comments
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“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.

The NW1 is not a simple table

Published November 16, 2009 Designers , Our Products 1 Comment
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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.

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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.

Claydies brings the flowers inside

Published November 10, 2009 Designers , Our Products 8 Comments
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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.

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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.

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It can be very hard to be spotted!

Published September 22, 2009 Our Products Leave a Comment
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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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Princess of Denmark meets Princess of Fashion

Published September 11, 2009 Fashion & Art Leave a Comment
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Two Danish Prinsesses spotted together. To the left Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mary of Denmark. To the right Camilla Stærk Danish fashion designer.

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Camping in Frankfurt

Published August 28, 2009 Design , Our Products Leave a Comment
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Jesper K. Thomsens Camping series spotted at the Personal Shopper trend area at Tendence 2009 in Frankfurt.

On display

Published August 14, 2009 Events , Our Products Leave a Comment
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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.

New Fashionable Rug

Published August 3, 2009 Designers , Our Products Leave a Comment
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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.

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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.

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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.”

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Hang is b(l)ack

Published July 14, 2009 Designers , Our Products Leave a Comment
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In the beginning of this year we launched the New Danish Modern collection featuring Danish designers and made in Denmark. Among the products was the lamp Hang, designed by Rikke Hagen. Hang is typical Danish design with its minimalist shape and soft retro shapes. We think its bound to become a classic.

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We met Rikke Hagen in her studio in Copenhagen for a talk (in Danish) about the the idea, the design process and why she loves light.

Pictures of the white version? Head for our homepage .

Here today – gone tomorrow

Published May 5, 2009 Fashion & Art , Our Products Leave a Comment
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You are getting older. No matter what you do to keep in shape , the fact is that you are getting older by the second… just by reading this you came a few minutes closer to retirement… how is that for a depressing thought!  To top it all your memory is also getting worse – here today – gone tomorrow. 

When Ole Jensen designed the Collect bookcase he thought of the third age. He wanted to create a piece of furniture that would help him remember the things that really mattered to him – when he was younger.

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We all surround ourselves with products – most of them are just nice to have, but some of them actually mean something special to us. A football that reminds you of that perfect game. A pair of shades that represents the wildest summer in your life, or the book that acturally did make a difference in your life.

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Filling the Collect bookcase with things is almost like going to an island where you can only bring a few things. It does’nt have unlimited rooms, and some of them have an odd shape. How would you prioritise?

Click below to see some of the things we would put in our Collect bookcase:

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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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