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In 2011, the Danish architecture studio Rosan Bosch designed Vittra Telefonplan, a free school in Stockholm without traditional classrooms. The open interiors are meant to reflect the school's educational principals, which encourage students to move about and work in leveled groups in five different learning spaces: "the watering hole," "the show-off," "the cave," "the campfire," and "the laboratory." The layout features an array of custom-made furnishings designed to inspire curiosity and facilitate collaboration.
One of your perennial favorites, Danish menswear brand Han Kjøbenhavn, just double-dosed the intercaves with its 2014 offerings--a Spring/Summer lookbook (photographs below) and Autumn/Winter über show (video at the bottom). The former is slick and technical with an airiness about it. The latter, presented at the National Museum of Denmark as part of Copenhagen's fashion week, is dark and formidable. It's a spectacle in which Speedoed hulks pedal white chariots in an ominous parade of gas-masked grotesques. In other words, it's more of the awesomeness you've come to expect from Han Kjøbenhavn.
Apparently you're late (by, like, four seasons) to the party on Danish label Han Kjøbenhavn, but for something this good, better late than never. The latest collection from designers Tim Faith Hancock and Jannik Wikkelso Davidsen features wools and fleeces in a neutral palette spiced up by dots, camo, and indigo finishes as well as hand-dyeing, bird prints, and embroidery. The lookbook is spot-on and gives a pretty clear indication of the level on which this Copenhagen-based brand is working. Casper Balslev directed the accompanying film, which is wild in its strange blend of nostalgia, violence, and debauchery. It's basically the opposite of Ordet.
