Why we smoke oak instead of staining it
A stain sits on the surface and wears off unevenly. Smoking changes the timber all the way through. The difference shows up in year three.
Architecture & Interiors
01 — Built and unbuilt
What does a room need in order to feel calm? These are three answers, arrived at from three very different sites.
All projects02 — Material matters
Materials chosen to grow more beautiful with time, not to survive a photograph.
Soft mineral surface
Quarried in Jutland. Honed rather than polished, so it holds light instead of throwing it back.
Stone · Fine-grained · Warm ivory · Walls & floors
Deep natural grain
Fumed, not stained. Colour runs through the section, so wear reads as patina rather than damage.
Timber · Open & tactile · Deep brown · Natural oil
Pre-weathered sheet
Arrives grey. There is no awkward decade of a roof looking new.
Metal · Standing seam · Slate grey · Roof & fascia
03 — The practice
04 — From first thought to final detail
A clear path from your first conversation to a place that feels entirely your own.
How we work, in detailThe site, the brief, the way you live.
Sketches, models, material studies.
Every junction, drawn and specified.
On site, beside the people making it.
We come back at one year, and at five.
05 — Join the practice
We welcome curious people who care about how spaces are made, used and experienced. Nine of us, in Copenhagen.
All open roles and how we hire06 — From the journal
Material tests, daylight studies and the unglamorous middle of a project — written down as we go.
A stain sits on the surface and wears off unevenly. Smoking changes the timber all the way through. The difference shows up in year three.
Most rooms are designed for noon and photographed at golden hour. We check them at four in the afternoon in November, when a room has nowhere to hide.
Before drawing anything on an existing building we spend a fortnight recording what is already there. It changes the project more often than the brief does.
07 — Start a conversation
Whether it is a house, a workplace or a building that deserves a second life — we would like to hear what you are imagining.