Impartial Cupboards on the Outdoors, Festive on the Inside

Stilleben, a design retailer within the coronary heart of Copenhagen, focuses on family objects that “replicate the time we stay in.” Along with promoting work by modern artisans, the model has its personal collections of ceramics, glass, and prints, even hair clips. Just a few years in the past, Stilleben Kitchens was added to the roster.

Created by Stilleben founders Ditte Reckweg and Jelena Schou Nordentoft in collaboration with architect Ditlev Rahbek, the designs intention to current the kitchen as “each a sensible work place and a social residing area.⁠” They’re at present accessible via Reckweg’s agency, Stillark.

The 2 fashions on provide are all about solid-wood craftsmanship, performance (together with a shock place to perch), and suave colour: The exteriors and interiors are sometimes painted in two totally different tones so as to add a contact of shock and Danish-style joie de vivre.

Right here’s an instance of the top-of-the-line model, the Body Kitchen, composed of modules tailored to every family’s wants and area. An analogous, extra price range mannequin, the Part Kitchen, can also be accessible.

Pictures courtesy of Stilleben and Stilleben Architects.

The kitchen belongs to Marie Louise and Mads and their three younger youngsters who moved from an condo to a Nineteen Twenties townhouse in Fredericksburg, simply west of Copenhagen, to realize more room—and be capable of set up their best kitchen. “The design needed to be sensible and maintain intensive on a regular basis use the place spilling and enjoying with meals are a part of life,” says Marie Louise who works for Unicef. “We like the truth that the look is modest and doesn’t demand your consideration, whereas on the identical time it lifts all the pieces round it.”