This is the super-sleek home of Morton Bo Jensen, the chief designer at Danish design company Vipp, and his graphic designer girlfriend and their super-cute five year old twins. Located on the island of Brygge, an old industrial harbour area in Copenhagen, they live in a New York-style loft which was once a Viking Pencil factory. Just around the corner is BIG’s (Bjarke Ingels Group) public baths on the Copenhagen canal and a series of manufacturing workshops, including Vipp’s headquarters.
‘The apartment was stripped to the bone; I spent a great deal of time reflecting on how I wanted to live. My conclusion was quite simple; function and efficiency must be the starting point, both in the architecture, the interior and the location. I am close to work, and the city. Being located here, I can minimise transport and optimise my daily life with the family,’ explains Jensen.
Inside, the monochrome space is dotted with furniture that Jensen designed himself, from the blacker than black Vipp kitchen island and old kitchen bin to the bathroom and some of the accessories. A sense of openness is reinforced with sliding doors, integrated bookcases and the light Dinesen wooden flooring that spans across the different spaces. He says:
I enjoy living in a space that is functionally and visually cohesive. It embodies a certain visual calm and daily efficiency. Living in your own design is a confirmation of how you work and which choices you make professionally. At Vipp I work with a DNA that personally reflects my style and what works for me. Being surrounded by these values and using the products everyday is legitimizing why product design must start with function. That is why I don’t have three different sofa arrangements but only one. I surround myself with things that are meant to be used, which only embraces the Danish concept of ‘hygge’ (cosiness)
Scroll on for the full house tour… (ps…I love the Danish concept of ‘hygge’, I’m going to live by that from now on!)
The full bookcase wall and firewood rack was added for both practical reasons and to create cosiness
Bookshelves are raised off the floor to give the illusion of a larger floor space
All images courtesy Vipp
