Danish Light: 8 Ideas to Steal from a New Restaurant in Copenhagen by a Studio on the Rise
Midway through a particularly bleak New York City winter, I’ve been fantasizing about a potential escape—most recently, to Copenhagen. A few weeks ago I was planning an imaginary/hopeful trip, looking at airfares, and poking around the Internet for new hotels and wine bars to try when I stumbled upon Hverdagen—a new restaurant in the city’s industrial-cool Kødbyen neighborhood with warm, clean-lined interiors, paper lanterns, and terra cotta-colored details—and added it to my wish-list itinerary.
A little more digging revealed that the restaurant interiors are by Danish studio Vermland, founded by cabinet maker Joakim Tolf Vulpius and young architect Anton Bak—the very same Anton Bak behind a scrappy two-week, $1000 renovation in Brooklyn we featured a couple of years ago, when he was a spacial designer at the Royal Danish Academy and his partner, Kristina Line, was interning at Søren Rose Studio in New York. The design world is small.
Back to the restaurant: It’s full of lovely, subtle design details to take note of—and looks well worth a visit should you find yourself in Copenhagen.
Photography by Jannick Boerlum, courtesy of Vermland.
1. Hang the table.
2. Keep to a tight color palette.
3. Disguise the W.C.
4. And keep materials of a piece.
5. Add texture with dried branches.
6. Employ the subtlest of checks.
7. Hang lanterns.
8. Use food as decor.
More Copenhagen restaurants and restaurants on my someday-itinerary: