Art, architecture and travel in Denmark
Let Wallpaper* guide you through the worlds of art, design and architecture in Denmark - and discover where to go and what to see when you travel to Denmark.
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Six Montana Furniture classics get a colourful makeover by Kimpop
Danish designers and TV personalities Kimpop give Montana Furniture's classic designs a colourful new look: ‘People will either love it or find it outside their comfort zone’
By Ali Morris Published
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The Wallpaper* wellness report: thermal bathing is an ancient art set to rise in 2025
In this Wallpaper* wellness report, Emma O’Kelly investigates the rise of thermal bathing, an ancient art taking the world by storm in 2025 and beyond
By Emma O'Kelly Published
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Meditations on Can Lis: Ferm Living unveils designs inspired by Jørn Utzon’s Mallorcan home
Ferm Living’s S/S 2025 collection of furniture and home accessories balances Danish rationality with the elemental textures of Mallorcan craft
By Ali Morris Published
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The world’s most enticing new hotel openings
Explore the best new hotels in the world, from the revival of a grande dame in Madrid to the restoration of a gothic beauty in Prague
By Nicola Leigh Stewart Last updated
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Danish Architecture Center celebrates trailblazing 20th-century designer Nanna Ditzel
A new exhibition dedicated to the groundbreaking work of Nanna Ditzel opens in Copenhagen
By Ali Morris Published
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Natural diamonds bring zing to Copenhagen cool in Elhanati’s new jewellery
Elhanati has collaborated with Botswanamark on three mystically inspired new pieces
By Hannah Silver Published
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This restored Danish country home is a celebration of woodworking – and you can book a stay
Dinesen Country Home has been restored to celebrate its dominant material - timber - and the craft of woodworking; now, you can stay there too
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Greenland through the eyes of Arctic architects Biosis: 'a breathtaking and challenging environment'
Danish architecture studio Biosis has long worked in Greenland, challenged by its extreme climate and attracted by its Arctic land, people and opportunity; here, founders Morten Vedelsbøl and Mikkel Thams Olsen discuss their experience in the northern territory
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Danish manufacturer Zenvo Automotive’s Aurora is the true enthusiast’s hybrid hypercar
Zenvo Automotive dovetails Danish design culture with a love of high-end engineering and exceptional performance. We talk to the company’s Jens Sverdrup about its newest machine, the Aurora
By Jonathan Bell Published
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The Living Places experiment: how can architecture foster future wellbeing?
Research initiative Living Places Copenhagen tests ideas around internal comfort and sustainable architecture standards to push the envelope on how contemporary homes and cities can be designed with wellness at their heart
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Denmark’s BIG has shaped itself the ultimate studio on the quayside in Copenhagen
Bjarke Ingels’ studio BIG has practised what it preaches with a visually sophisticated, low-energy office with playful architectural touches
By Jonathan Bell Published
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Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory 2024: meet the practices
In the Wallpaper* Architects Directory 2024, our latest guide to exciting, emerging practices from around the world, 20 young studios show off their projects and passion
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Meet Mast, the emerging masters of floating architecture
Danish practice Mast is featured in the Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory 2024
By Jens H Jensen Published
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Carl Hansen & Søn reissues two masterpieces by Danish pioneer Kaare Klint
Danish design powerhouse Carl Hansen & Søn presents a bed and chair originally designed in the 1930s by Kaare Klint, the founder of the Danish Modern movement
By Léa Teuscher Published
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A redesigned Aarhus showroom reinterprets Danish history through modern context
Danish architecture studio Djernes & Bell transforms the Aarhus showroom for Dinesen and Garde Hvalsøe by blending old and new
By Tianna Williams Published
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Vipp’s Scandinavian guesthouse offers a sleek setting amid a wild landscape
Vipp Cold Hawaii is a Scandinavian guesthouse designed by architecture studio Hahn Lavsen in Denmark’s Thy National Park
By Sofia de la Cruz Published
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Minimalist Heatherhill Beach house was conceived with an 'essentialist mindset'
Heatherhill Beach house by Norm Architects in Denmark's Vejby is designed as a minimalist retreat conceived with an 'essentialist mindset'
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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3XN exhibition in Copenhagen discusses architecture through our senses
3XN exhibition 'Aware: Architecture and Senses' opens its doors at the Danish Architecture Center in Copenhagen
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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AI and creativity: Louisiana museum considers the human in the machine
‘The Irreplaceable Human’ at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark asks what creativity is in the age of AI
By Amah-Rose Abrams Published
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The Opera Park in Copenhagen is an urban green island where ‘nature comes first’
The Opera Park creates a new urban green lung near Copenhagen's fast-developing Paper Island district, courtesy of Danish architecture studio Cobe
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Tableau presents previously unseen Poul Gernes flower lamp
Danish design studio Tableau worked with the Poul Gernes Foundation to bring to life the design for the first time
By Rosa Bertoli Published
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Cave Bureau uses geology to refocus and understand the relationship between architecture and nature
Cave Bureau’s exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art opens in Denmark, marking the latest – and last – entry in the gallery's The Architecture Studio series
By Marwa El Mubark Published
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Wallow in Ragnar Kjartansson’s epic riffs on Nordic melancholia at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson brings his ‘Epic Waste of Love and Understanding’ to Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (until 22 October 2023)
By Alice Godwin Published
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The Danish shores meet East Coast America as Gubi and Noah unveil new summer collaboration
Gubi x Noah is a new summer collaboration comprising a special colourful edition of Gubi’s outdoor lounge chair by Mathias Steen Rasmussen, and a five-piece beach-appropriate capsule collection
By Rosa Bertoli Published
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Shifting sands: Kisawa Sanctuary aims to protect the Indian Ocean and its people
Kisawa Sanctuary, a ‘resort-to-research’ hotel, harnesses the power of luxury tourism to fund scientific projects
By Sean O'Toole Published
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Esben Weile Kjær’s zany tribute to 1990s teenage rebellion
Artist Esben While Kjær, a rapidly rising star in the Danish art world, has just unveiled a radically curated show of the Arken Museum for Modern Art’s collection
By Alice Godwin Published
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Travel the globe through colour with Giulio Ridolfo
In a new tome, Materialising Colour, Journeys with Giulio Ridolfo, join the Italian colourist on his scenic journey through colour, joined by botanical photographer Howard Sooley and curator Jane Withers
By Rosa Bertoli Last updated