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 — Selected spaces
Three places built around the same question: what does a room need in order to feel calm?
All projects02 — Material matters
Materials chosen to grow more beautiful with time, not to survive a photograph.
Soft mineral surface
Deep natural grain
Pre-weathered sheet
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 detailWe begin with the way you live, the qualities of your site, and the possibilities you want to explore.
Sketches, models and material studies give shape to a shared vision, with room to question and refine.
We bring spaces, structure and surfaces into focus, working through every junction and everyday detail.
Through close collaboration with makers and builders, the design becomes a place ready for life.
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.