A neutral, minimalist home curated by Karakter and Ark Journal

I lately went to Copenhagen for 3 Times of Design – Denmark’s once-a-year layout festival showcasing the ideal in Scandinavian style and design. The party is totally free and open up to everybody – layout enthusiasts flock to the capital to get a peek inside showrooms and galleries, and see the most up-to-date exhibitions and design and style talks. It was so pleasant to ultimately be ready to see style and design up near and particular, right after two yrs or so mainly stuck at home many thanks to the pandemic. There is absolutely nothing like looking at a piece of furnishings in particular person, touching the materials with your possess arms and seeing the craftsmanship in element.

One particular of my favourite shows of the pageant was Co/Get the job done by Danish design brand name Karakter and style and design magazine Ark Journal. Their exhibition, impeccably styled by Pernille Vest and established in a neutral, minimalist condominium in the town centre, focused on the interaction concerning household and get the job done. That includes new styles and relaunched classics, it presented a refined, elegant globe that blurred the boundaries concerning formality and comfort and ease.

Karakter’s furnishings has a sculptural top quality that lends alone to a innovative way of residing. The area offered could be a sculpture’s atelier, but it could also similarly be an artist’s household or a collaborative work studio. It offers the concern, are Karakter’s designs a piece of art or a functional piece of furniture? Most likely they really don’t want to be one particular of the other. But alternatively this is evidence that you can curate your dwelling like your very own individual artwork gallery, and model your place of work as you would at residence.

All pictures Cate St Hill

I very first learned Karakter all through Milan Design Week and later on at 3 Times of Design and style in 2018. Karakter’s ethos pairs the Scandinavian design and style tradition with an global outlook (they are component of the exact same firm as Italian brand name Cassina).

They perform with modern designers such as Aldo Bakker and PlueerSmitt, but they also have the rights to a assortment of style and design icons by the likes of Bodil Kjær, Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Paul McCobb and Joe Colombo. It is this assembly of aged and new that presents the manufacturer a timeless aesthetic that defies time durations or tendencies.

For 3 Times of Layout, in the setting of this minimalist apartment, Karakter showcased the GB Lounge chair by Dutch industrial designer Gijs Bakker. Developed in 1972 and influenced by a competitors held by Dunlop, Bakker designed a comfortable modular chair by bending a piece of foam and securing it with a steel body. 1st upholstered in denim, it was at first dubbed ‘the Levi’s Chair’. Just like a pair of very well worn denims, Bakker desired to generate a calm, easygoing layout that expressed the flexibility of the Seventies.

The GB Lounge can be organized in a assortment of strategies, applying connectors to change it from a one particular-seater chair to a generous many seating procedure.

The basic strains and refined forms unite Karakter’s household furniture into a single household. I like how the black body of the GB Lounge is mirrored in the black legs of the desks, the floating black shelves and the black endeavor lighting. It aids develop a cohesive room that feels calm and controlled.

My favourite Karakter items are the TriAngle stool by Aldo Bakker, the Bronco stool by Guillaume Delvigne, and the Libreria Pensile cabinets by Achille Castiglioni and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni.

You can find out additional about the wonderful home furnishings and person parts in this minimalist apartment at karakter-copenhagen.com.