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Restoration and renovation of a listed apartment in the center of Copenhagen.
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The building is part of a larger scheme developed by renowned historicist architect Ferdinand Meldahl in the late 19th Century.
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The last time the apartment had been redone was in the 1990s, with a lot of design choices typical of that era. The wish of the client was to bring back the original 1870s charm of the place. Luckily a lot of it was still there, only buried beneath the newer layers – such as the original plank floors that we discovered underneath a 90s parquet flooring.
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A lot of bespoke details were designed by us for the place, such as brass and bronze hardware for the cabinets, and kitchen and bathroom furniture.
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As part of the restoration all the plasterwork details were stripped of 150 years worth of paint coats and left unpainted.
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For the bathroom floors we did a pattern of intarsia brass ornaments, based on an ornament found in the fence around the neighboring Marble Church, also designed by Meldahl.
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The finished bathrooms are a mix of terrazzo, ceramic, Carrara marble, elm and brass.
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Furniture was built in European elm, and kitchen and other cabinetry in Danish ash wood.
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For the kitchen walls, antique Delft tiles were mixed in with newly manufactured ceramic tiles, also from Delft.
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All work was done in collaboration with the carpenters and cabinet makers of Rammelisten.
Photos by Peter Dalsgaard.
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