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Intro Thomas Graversen P. 4 DESIGNER LOUISE CAMPBELL ON THE DESIGNER NANNA DITZEL Louise Campbell on Nanna Ditzel P. 80 MINIMALIST LUXURY ON YIN AND YANG AND FEELING THE WAY FORWARD DESIGN IS THE LANGUAGE THAT COMMUNICATEs WITHOUT SUBTITLES børge revisited, legacy rediscovered Rasmus Graversen on Børge Mogensen P. 28 AN INTIMATE HAVEN GamFratesi P. 42 PATO, THE ENVIRONMENTALLYAWARE PLASTIC DUCK Welling/Ludvik P. 72 UNCOMPROMISING WORLD-CLASS QUALITY BEGINS WITH THE STORY OF A RATHER DRY DESIGNER Christian Holmsted Olesen P. 112 Index & Technical info P. 126

If the desire to satisfy customers requires us to make trendy choices, then we’re paddling upstream and choosing what’s new based on our gut feeling. If a polished surface makes it difficult to sense a material, we let the opportunity for a sensory experience prevail in our furniture. If a willingness to reject quality by producing goods in the Far East is in fashion, then Fredericia is going against the grain.

Thomas Graversen, owner At Fredericia, words like ‘doctrine’ and ‘mainstream’ are not in our vocabulary. In our collection, you’ll only find the furniture that we ourselves love. Furniture that is able to form part of a dialogue with its contemporaries. We want people who enjoy furnishing with, and around, our designs, to feel a sense of familiarity. We’re happy to go against the tide by always trusting our feelings. No one can ever doubt Fredericia quality, and a lack of compromise in striving for the highest quality will always be our guiding star as long as we exist. Enjoy your journey...

SCANDINAVIAN DESIGN USUALLY EQUALS LIGHT, MODEST FURNITURE WITH SUBTLE ORNAMENTATION LUCKILY, DESIGN DUO SPACE DIDN’T GET THAT MEMO Spine collection by Space Copenhagen

Rasmus Shepherd-Lomborg owns and runs Copenhagen’s absolute hippest cocktail bars, Ruby in Nybrogade and Lidkoeb in a courtyard between Vesterbrogade and Tullinsgade. You have to know which doorway to go through to find Lidkoeb as there’s no sign on the door. (It’s right before the enormous Føtex supermarket on Vesterbrogade.) This old factory building has a cocktail bar on the ground floor and bars on the first and second floors. In the cocktail bar, there’s a long line of Space Copenhagen’s Spine barstools, and why? Over to Rasmus Shepherd- Lomborg: MINIMALIST LUXURY

week. Lidkoeb opens daily at 4 pm and there’s always something to do. I’m very pleased with my Spine barstools. There’s something completely Nordic about them, in contrast to so many other barstools. They are simple and clearly not designed for a nightclub. They look good lined up in a long row at the bar. Guests often comment that our club is cosy and stylish in a Danish way. The mix between the old things I’ve bought second-hand and the new Nordic design works really well. It’s a luxury to open this kind of place here and be able to realise your idea.” “The Spine barstools are great for...

Signe Bindslev Henriksen and Peter Bundgaard Rützou are the designers behind Space Copenhagen. Over the past eight years, they have designed spaces for restaurants of the Michelin-star variety. Often they were unable to find the piece of furniture they wanted to use, so they simply designed it themselves, which is how Spine was conceived. At Space Copenhagen, they make use of the dialogue between male and female, their yin and yang. Light and dark. This sometimes leads to the dark side and they do a lot of arguing, says Signe Bindslev Henriksen (SB). When she gets annoyed, she throws...

How about Spine? SB: “We like the meeting between the solid, comfortable, organic and the modern. Taking that field feels open. We like simplifying dimensions and like the lightness of the piece. It is an exercise in composition that you struggle with until you feel that now it’s right.” PB: “In the process, it became clear that there’s a balance between two tonalities: wood and leather. We feel a recognition in the new, and that’s where FREDERICIA comes in with their heritage, Børge Mogensen and the rest. We felt that FREDERICIA was written on this chair. We contacted Thomas Graversen who...

Perfected in 2032. The Hunting Chair, by Børge Mogensen

24-year-old Rasmus Graversen is one of the heirs of FREDERICIA. As a child, he wasn’t force-fed Børge Mogensen although he grew up around it. He remembers more about Nanna Ditzel, the groundbreaking designer who embraced his father’s desire to develop new products. However, Rasmus’ grandfather, Andreas Graversen the founder of FREDERICIA, was full of the master. Apart from a Finn Juhl chair, everything in his childhood home was designed by Børge Mogensen. And of course, the stories and memories he was told about Mogensen, who was almost part of the family, made him so familiar with him as a...

Børge Mogensen’s home

“I like the attitude Børge had towards materials. The raw material is always exposed and honoured in a way. The furniture becomes very tangible. I like to think about it in the way that you cannot cut down a 200-year old tree and then make a cheap looking or disposable piece out of it. You have to do your best to respect the tree and make a piece that will last for years. I see Børge as one of the first Danish architects to think through furniture for the home. In many regards I find his approach inspiring. Børge Mogensen looked at what a family needed. He didn’t just create chairs, but...

1/ ørge Mogensen joking around B 2/ ørge Mogensen’s summer residence B 3/ ørge Mogensen’s home B B 4/ ench 3171 5/ he Spanish Chair T 6/ ndreas Graversen and Børge Mogensen A 7/ ørge Mogensen’s kitchen B 8/ ørge Mogensen resting in sofa 2213 B 9/ he Hunting Chair T 10/ Ottoman 11/ ørge Mogensen’s summer residence B 12/ ørge Mogensen, Hans J. Wegner and B Textile Designer Lis Ahlmann