The Dezeen team are reporting live from 3 Days of Design in Copenhagen with exclusive previews of products, installations and events.
11:30am – a taste of Noma
Noma – rated world’s best restaurant on five separate occasions – has opened the doors of its experimental food lab Noma Projects for this year’s 3 Days of Design.
Those unable to get a reservation at the actual restaurant before it closes this winter (including Dezeen’s own Jennifer Hahn), were able to sample some of the food innovations pioneered by chef René Redzepi and his team in the process of reducing food waste.
Among them is a seasoning made from dehydrated seaweed water (which Redzepi calls “kitchen crack”), miso made using leftover bread from Copenhagen’s bakeries and a kind of nut butter made from waste pumpkin seeds mixed with pine and parsley leaf oil – a favourite of the author, who is debating buying check-in luggage just to bring some home with her.
Also on show are some attempts at turning food waste into useful products, including soap, paper and curtains made from seaweed, and artworks coloured using beetroot and saffron.
11:00am – lots of wood
Dezeen’s deputy editor Cajsa Carlson has visited Enter the Salon, a furniture exhibition held at historic townhouse The Conary that is showing designs by brands including Karimoku and Ladies & Gentlemen Studio.
The exhibition curated by designer Signe Hytte, contained lots of wood and other natural materials, which made in a peaceful setting within the bustle of 3 Days of Design.
10:15am – up a wrickety old elevator…
Don’t be put off by the handyman laying down carpet across the five-storey stairwell of the apartment block at Store Strandstræde 19.
Instead, take the rickety old elevator up to the top floor to see a rarely accessible, century-old artist’s atelier transformed into a showcase of 25 emerging designers from Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway.
Highlights from the show, based on an open call by the House of Nordic Design, include a shaggy wool-covered desk by Studio Kasa Kasa, a sculptural Sissel Warringa pendant light (recently picked up by Frandsen for mass production) and hand-dyed marbled wood flooring by Anton Mikkonen (rumouredly laid all across Robert Downey Junior’s kitchen).
9:30am – welcome to day three
Good morning! It’s day three of 3 Days of Design and the Dezeen team – editorial director Max Fraser, editor-at-large Amy Frearson, deputy editor Cajsa Carlson, design editor Jennifer Hahn and social editor Clara Finnigan – are on the ground in Copenhagen reporting on all the action.
Catch up with everything that happened on day one and day two here.
Dezeen Events Guide has created a 3 Days of Design guide, highlighting the key events at the festival this year.
Dezeen Events Guide has created a 3 Days of Design guide, highlighting the key events at the festival. See Dezeen Events Guide for all the latest information you need to know to attend the event, as well as a list of other architecture and design events taking place around the world.
All times are Copenhagen time.
The lead image is by Clara Finnigan.