A neutral, minimalist home curated by Karakter and Ark Journal

I a short while ago went to Copenhagen for 3 Times of Style – Denmark’s yearly design pageant showcasing the best in Scandinavian style. The party is no cost and open to every person – style and design fans flock to the capital to get a peek inside showrooms and galleries, and see the latest exhibitions and structure talks. It was so good to finally be equipped to see layout up close and individual, right after two decades or so generally stuck at home many thanks to the pandemic. There is nothing like looking at a piece of household furniture in particular person, touching the materials with your individual hands and observing the craftsmanship in element.

One of my favourite shows of the festival was Co/Perform by Danish design brand name Karakter and design and style journal Ark Journal. Their exhibition, impeccably styled by Pernille Vest and established in a neutral, minimalist condominium in the metropolis centre, centered on the interaction among property and perform. Featuring new patterns and relaunched classics, it offered a refined, tasteful world that blurred the boundaries amongst formality and ease and comfort.

Karakter’s furnishings has a sculptural top quality that lends by itself to a imaginative way of dwelling. The house introduced could be a sculpture’s atelier, but it could also equally be an artist’s dwelling or a collaborative function studio. It provides the dilemma, are Karakter’s styles a piece of artwork or a purposeful piece of furniture? Potentially they don’t need to have to be a single of the other. But relatively this is proof that you can curate your dwelling like your personal own artwork gallery, and fashion your office as you would at residence.

All visuals Cate St Hill

I very first found Karakter during Milan Layout Week and later on at 3 Times of Design and style in 2018. Karakter’s ethos pairs the Scandinavian structure custom with an international outlook (they are section of the same corporation as Italian brand name Cassina).

They do the job with present-day designers these types of as Aldo Bakker and PlueerSmitt, but they also have the rights to a assortment of design icons by the likes of Bodil Kjær, Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Paul McCobb and Joe Colombo. It is this conference of outdated and new that gives the brand a timeless aesthetic that defies time periods or tendencies.

For 3 Days of Design, in the location of this minimalist condominium, Karakter showcased the GB Lounge chair by Dutch industrial designer Gijs Bakker. Made in 1972 and impressed by a competition held by Dunlop, Bakker established a cozy modular chair by bending a piece of foam and securing it with a metal body. Very first upholstered in denim, it was at first dubbed ‘the Levi’s Chair’. Just like a pair of very well worn jeans, Bakker preferred to build a calm, easygoing style that expressed the independence of the Seventies.

The GB Lounge can be organized in a variety of strategies, applying connectors to remodel it from a just one-seater chair to a generous many seating system.

The very simple traces and refined forms unite Karakter’s home furniture into just one loved ones. I love how the black body of the GB Lounge is mirrored in the black legs of the desks, the floating black shelves and the black process lights. It aids make a cohesive room that feels relaxed and controlled.

My favorite Karakter items 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 locate out more about the lovely furniture and individual items in this minimalist apartment at karakter-copenhagen.com.