“Over the years, I have witnessed Normann Copenhagen grow
from a small Danish design brand and shop to an international
design company making good design accessible to a large audience,
but also opening up for new exciting creative collaborations
like the experimental Normann x Brask Art Collection and the
collaboration with Copenhagen’s International Documentary Film
Festival CPH:DOX. I like the fact that Normann Copenhagen
wants more than to “just create another design object”, like when
they work with objects that integrate art into the practice of
everyday life.”
Mette Barfod
Editor In Chief at Ark Journal. Former Editor In Chief at RUM Magazine.
“We met Jan Andersen in connection with a dinner held by
Blickfang, and we were on the same wavelength from the moment
we sat down at the table. It was a very special table design with a
built-in wine cooler and, let me put it this way; we sat very close
to that wine cooler. After a tipsy night, we agreed that we had
to find a project to do together one day. A couple of years went
by and then the right idea was there. At Normann Copenhagen,
there is room for differences, and it is never boring. Even though
Normann Copenhagen has become a major international brand,
one still clearly senses the entrepreneurial spirit.”
Mie Albæk Nielsen
Co-founder of Femmes Régionales, a creative agency based in Copenhagen offering
bespoke design solutions for lifestyle clients that dare to take things in a new direction.
Femmes Régionales has worked with Normann Copenhagen on the Daily Fiction and
Table Tableau design concepts.
“Normann Copenhagen was one of the
first contemporary Danish
design brands to conquer the world and one of the first brands to
produce craft items with great success. The craft artists are not
interested in trends, but are skilled makers that are quality- and
material-based. They are dedicated to their material and create
elaborate objects that transcend the test of time. Virtually all of
the things that craft artists such as Ole Jensen and Claydies have
created for Normann Copenhagen still stand today and several
of them have been included in museums worldwide.”
Charlotte Jul
Writer, editor and curator.