Monday, June 25, 2012

scandi-design::copenhagen


 Design Museum Danmark / Kunstindustrimuseet:: a reflection of the facade is woven into the carpet covering the courtyard leading up to the main entrance...
[the museum shop features the coolest selection of designy stuff and the museum cafe serves the most delectable hot cocoa!]


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 the royal city of divine as well as mere mortal powered wheels in two of their many design permutations...


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 from the venerable Georg Jensen flagship and the illustrious Royal Copenhagen store and museum next door to the luminous Designer Zoo with the largest collection of contemporary Danish craft and design, my attention was more often riveted by the ever happy and superbly designed danish men walking by with their bikes...


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 from an elegantly simple yet visually arresting modification of balconies on this older apartment building [designer unknown] to the most slicing dicing edge designs from Copenhagen's sizzling hot architect Bjarke Ingels
this is my kind of can't-stop-licking ice cream town where the architectural offerings are truly deliciously frozen music...


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 the charmingly thoughtful stair design for the lucky ducks to climb decorously out of their pond in the courtyard of the Royal Library and the lovely art nouveau-esque curved stone steps for those needing to find the discreet lavatories within...


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and on one of the oldest buildings in Copenhagen, the Old Stock Exchange built in the first half of the 17th century, is a coiling spire of the twisted together tails of four dragons symbolizing the union of the Nordic countries and manifesting an altogether uniquely royal danish design [by King Christian IV himself no less] atop a Dutch Renaissance inspired building...