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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