A slew of top-notch design teams came together to create the Danish retreat
Words by: Alia Akkam• Photos Stine Christiansen + Andy Liffner
Arches made from copper found on the building s roof add character to Villa Copenhagen s breakfast restaurant
Little has changed on the façade of the neo-Baroque Copenhagen Central Post Building. Unveiled in 1912 as the headquarters for the Danish Post and Telegraph Company and now reborn as the 390-room Villa Copenhagen, its interiors, by contrast, are largely shorn of historic ornamentation.
“From the outside, it looks palatial. You would have expected the same inside, but so much was stripped out in the 1960s and ’70s,” recalls Richard McConkey, associate director and head of hospitality at London’s Universal Design Studio, which designed 381 of the guestrooms. Local jeweler Shamballa Jewels, responsible for the villa’s glass-capped courtyard lobby, designed eight suites, while Danish architect Eva Harlou kitted out one
Responsible chairs: the sustainable furniture to buy now
Responsible chairs: the sustainable furniture to buy now
Designers such as Nendo, Barber Osgerby and Konstantin Grcic have upped their sustainability efforts, with ongoing research and development resulting in sustainable furniture collections, including garden furniture, that merge good design with a responsible approach
The ‘T07 Sling’ lounge chair by Sam Hecht and Kim Colin for Takt is a fine example of sustainable furniture for contemporary living: the brand (a certified B-Corp) calculates that the production of this chair generates 17.1kg CO2-e – equivalent to just 50 lattes or 1.6 pieces of steak
If you’re seeking sustainable furniture with timeless design, look no further: the design world has been channelling its efforts into material research, pushing towards a more circular way of producing furniture, and these chairs are the ready-to-use results of extensive experimentation. This next generation