A neutral, minimalist home curated by Karakter and Ark Journal

I just lately went to Copenhagen for 3 Days of Design and style – Denmark’s annual design festival showcasing the ideal in Scandinavian structure. The event is free and open up to everybody – style fans flock to the funds to get a peek inside showrooms and galleries, and see the newest exhibitions and style talks. It was so nice to ultimately be able to see design up near and own, immediately after two years or so predominantly stuck at house many thanks to the pandemic. There is nothing like viewing a piece of furnishings in human being, touching the elements with your possess fingers and looking at the craftsmanship in depth.

One of my favourite displays of the festival was Co/Do the job by Danish style brand Karakter and structure journal Ark Journal. Their exhibition, impeccably styled by Pernille Vest and established in a neutral, minimalist apartment in the metropolis centre, focused on the interaction among house and get the job done. That includes new designs and relaunched classics, it offered a refined, sophisticated planet that blurred the boundaries among formality and comfort.

Karakter’s furnishings has a sculptural excellent that lends itself to a creative way of residing. The house offered could be a sculpture’s atelier, but it could also similarly be an artist’s house or a collaborative function studio. It presents the dilemma, are Karakter’s styles a piece of artwork or a useful piece of home furnishings? Possibly they do not have to have to be one particular of the other. But alternatively this is evidence that you can curate your home like your very own personalized art gallery, and design and style your office as you would at property.

All pictures Cate St Hill

I very first discovered Karakter for the duration of Milan Design and style Week and afterwards at 3 Days of Structure in 2018. Karakter’s ethos pairs the Scandinavian style and design custom with an international outlook (they are section of the exact corporation as Italian model Cassina).

They get the job done with present-day designers these types of as Aldo Bakker and PlueerSmitt, but they also have the legal rights to a selection of style and design icons by the likes of Bodil Kjær, Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Paul McCobb and Joe Colombo. It’s this conference of outdated and new that provides the brand name a timeless aesthetic that defies time durations or tendencies.

For 3 Times of Design and style, in the placing of this minimalist condominium, Karakter showcased the GB Lounge chair by Dutch industrial designer Gijs Bakker. Created in 1972 and inspired by a competitors held by Dunlop, Bakker designed a comfy modular chair by bending a piece of foam and securing it with a metallic frame. Very first upholstered in denim, it was initially dubbed ‘the Levi’s Chair’. Just like a pair of nicely worn jeans, Bakker needed to build a peaceful, easygoing design and style that expressed the liberty of the Seventies.

The GB Lounge can be arranged in a wide variety of ways, working with connectors to rework it from a a person-seater chair to a generous various seating method.

The easy strains and refined sorts unite Karakter’s home furnishings into one particular household. I love how the black frame of the GB Lounge is mirrored in the black legs of the desks, the floating black shelves and the black process lights. It assists generate a cohesive house that feels relaxed and controlled.

My favourite Karakter pieces 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 come across out much more about the beautiful furnishings and unique items in this minimalist apartment at karakter-copenhagen.com.