The Most Buzzworthy Debuts at Copenhagen Design Week 

Copenhagen Design Week, led by the annual 3 Days of Design festival, has emerged as a formidable presence on the international design calendar long dominated by Milan and New York. Yet the Danish capital maintains a distinct character. Rather than chasing headline-grabbing installations, brands often focus on thoughtful introductions, material innovation, and craftsmanship. This year proved particularly rich, with hundreds of exhibitors presenting new furniture, lighting, textiles, and objects across the city. Below, we spotlight the debuts that left the strongest impression, from Sophie Bille Brahe’s luminous Murano glass vessels to Kasper Salto’s outdoor furniture designed for the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. 

Louise Roe 

Since opening Roe Bar, her buzzing café, showroom, and gathering place on Copenhagen’s stylish Vognmagergade, designer Louise Roe has cultivated a world defined by sculptural simplicity. Among the latest additions is the Alice Object, a porcelain vessel whose rounded bowl and parallel handles draw on the silhouette of the ancient amphora. Elevated on a stacked pedestal vase, the piece functions equally well as a centerpiece or display object, whether filled with fruit, herbs, or seasonal branches, which elevates tablescapes into still lifes. Named after Roe’s beloved dog, Alice, the design comes in three sizes and two hues, with color infused directly into the clay to lend the porcelain remarkable depth. 

Studio Brocky  

Growing up in a former industrial town in northeast England, Max Brockbank developed a deep appreciation for the skilled trades that once defined the region. That outlook informs Studio Brocky, his new venture dedicated to furniture and lighting built to age gracefully. The eight-piece debut collection is handmade in England through collaborations with specialist metalworkers, upholsterers, and textile artisans. Among the highlights is the Vanguard Lounge Chair, a sweeping design upholstered in couture-grade velvet that curves upward before settling on a cylindrical metal base. Its low-slung silhouette recalls the futuristic glamour of 1970s lounge furniture, while traditional fillings—boar bristle, coconut hair—lend lasting structure. 

Sophie Bille Brahe 

Known for infusing her Scandinavian sensibilities onto classical jewelry motifs, Sophie Bille Brahe is now turning her attention to glimmering Murano glass vessels. The Cellophone Nuage collection reimagines several of her signature jewelry forms, including Escargot and Ocean, as luminous handblown vessels whose pearlescent surfaces catch and diffuse light. Personal references run through the series, from roses in her mother’s garden to Cellophane Daphne, a vessel conceived for her brother Frederik Ville Brahe’s new restaurant and inspired by the myth of Apollo and Daphne. Handmade in Murano and produced in limited quantities, the collection comprises six one-of-a-kind vases alongside a forthcoming line of scented candles.  

Jamie Bush for Marc Phillips Rugs 

Interior designer Jamie Bush has long explored the natural world through painting, creating aerial compositions inspired by crop fields tousled by wind, weather, and cultivation. For Field Studies, his new collaboration with Marc Phillips Rugs, those abstract works take on exciting new dimension as richly textured floor coverings. Silk, wool, help, and allo combine in layered constructions, while varied pile heights lend each piece the topography of an aerial landscape viewed from above. The collection was presented at Other Circle alongside nine hay bales that reference the agricultural imagery that inspired the collection, which comes in nine colorways. 

Griegst for Royal Copenhagen 

Approaching porcelain with the wax-casting techniques he developed as a jeweler, Danish artist and goldsmith Arje Griegst conceived Triton in 1976 as a fantastical seascape of swirling shells and wave-like contours. More than 50 years later, Royal Copenhagen has revived the cult collection in collaboration with the Griegst family, breathing new life into one of its most technically demanding creations. Royal Copenhagen modeller Bo Jørgensen, who helped develop Triton as an apprentice in the ‘70s, restored the original molds ahead of his retirement. Offered in hues including a caramelized sand, powder blue, and a luminous celadon, the collection encompasses tureens, plates, dishes, and bonbonnières.  

Studioutte for CC-Tapis 

Since launching Studioutte in 2020, Guglielmo Giagnotti and Patrizio Gola have built a reputation for distilling vernacular architecture and historical references into furniture refined to its purest, most primitive essence. Their debut rug collection, with Milanese purveyor CC-Tapis, now extends that sensibility to textiles. Called Dedalo, the collection comprises three rugs—Hydra, Cardo, and Cnosso—that explore a distinct relationship between woven structure, geometric pattern, and embroidered detail. Architectural motifs emerge as grids, pathways, and modular compositions that splay across the surface in ivory, brown, mustard, and black hues. 

Kasper Salto for Fritz Hansen  

Since creating the Ice chair for the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art’s popular café in 2004, industrial designer Kasper Salto has maintained an ongoing dialogue with the institution and Danish furniture purveyor Fritz Hansen. The newly released Vind series revisits that relationship through a contemporary lens, drawing inspiration from maritime architecture and the windswept coastline outside the museum. Crafted from powder-coated aluminum, the collection pairs slender silhouettes with handwoven seats made from nearly 500 feet of solution-dyed polyester cord, a process that requires four hours of meticulous work by a skilled craftsperson.  

Ladies & Gentlemen Studio 

Ladies & Gentlemen Studio enlisted Brooklyn artist Cara Marie Piazza of Calyx Studios to create Botanica, a special edition of its Veil pendants and Altostratus chandeliers—two fixtures that celebrate the flow of energy through sinuous layers of undulating textiles. Piazza applied her traditional dipping and bundle-dyeing techniques to the fixtures’ textile shades, using botanical materials such as mugwort, logwood, rose peony, and marigold to produce soft washes of color and hand-scattered organic patterns. When illuminated, the layered textiles cast a warm, atmospheric glow that highlights the nuances of the hand-dyed surfaces. Available by custom order, each Botanica fixture features a one-of-a-kind pattern that varies according to season and the handmade process.  

Other Matter for Made by Morgen 

Founded by Melbourne designer Jessie French, Other Matter has spent years developing algae-based materials that challenge the short lifespan of conventional retail signage. Its latest innovation, Other Matter Leather, transforms offcuts and end-of-life OM Signage Film—the studio’s algae-derived alternative to conventional vinyl graphics—into supple upholstery, creating its first fully circular system. The material debuts in a relaunch of Made by Morgen’s seating collection, replacing traditional leather across a chair, stool, and high stool presented at Latitude, the showcase of Australian designers curated by Claire Delmare. Elsewhere in Copenhagen, Aesop showcased the material in peelable window installations inspired by its Parsley Seed Skin Care range, inviting visitors to take fragments home for reuse.