The Sociable Kitchen® by Kvik

In this episode, we speak with award-winning  furniture designer Lærke Ryom about the Danish design expo stand she created for the Confederation of Danish Industry at Habitare Pro in Helsinki, as well as Ukurant, a  platform for young designers that she co-founded.   We also speak with Nikolaj Duve from SaysWho about the co-creation process that resulted in our best-selling Ombra kitchen design. ...

Thank you for coming with us on this journey through Danish design. One of the things that came up again and again in my conversations was the notion of co-creation. And what is co-creation, you ask? In a way it's a collaboration - you invite a diverse group of people with different knowledge and talents into a room and everyone contributes to solving the task at hand. Everyone’s unique persp...

We've explored the Danish design DNA and now it's time to explore the possibilities of what Danish design can do. We spoke to designer Nikolaj Duve from SaysWho. We learned about a surprising project where Danish design helped solve problems in the toughest prison in Denmark from designer Sune Kjems. And we also spoke to designer Lars Thøgersen and Claus Johnsen, our own Head of Design. ...

As a Danish company creating and designing kitchens for more than 40 years, Danish design is close to our hearts. As we’ve expanded into more and more countries, we’ve noticed a need to be able to explain to new audiences what Danish design is and what makes it special. For this, our first podcast series, we’ve talked to a number of experts on Danish design to try to learn just that.   Here in epi...

Back in 2016, the Danish Design Council teamed up with the Danish Design Centre, the Royal Danish Academy of Architecture, Design and Conservation and Design Museum Denmark and decided to take a close look at Danish design and really get to the essence of it. The result was a mapping of the Danish design DNA which was presented in 2017 when Aarhus was the European Cultural Capital.  In this episod...

In our last episode, we learned about the origins of the Danish Design DNA, if you haven’t heard it, you should go back and listen now. In this episode, we dig a bit deeper into the ten strands of the DNA. In 2017, the Danish Design Council saw a need to redefine Danish design for the 21st century. If American design is business and German design is science and Italian design is art, then what is...

Most people are familiar with Danish design classics like Arne Jacobsen’s Egg and Swan chairs or the famous PH lamp by Poul Henningsen or perhaps Jørgen Utzon’s Sydney Opera House, even if you didn’t necessarily know that they were Danish design. But what is the essence of Danish design? The glue holding it all together? And where is Danish design heading today? In this podcast series, we try to f...