Copenhagen Ceramics Quest

On Friday we all set off for Copenhagen at 8am! We had been given a tour to follow of different galleries and shops as well as suggestions as to where to have coffee and lunch. However Anne and Tanja proved to be far more knowledgeable and better tour guides then an A4 piece of paper! We started at Design Zoo which showcased up and coming danish designers work. They also had in house studios and the bottom floor was mostly taken up with the manufacture of tables, that were ordered bespoke through the shop.






Our second stop was meant to be open studios however this did not seem to happen anymore but the studios where there and the kind tenants let us have a look around! It was amazingly clean and tidy, I don't know how they all managed it. The atmosphere was so calm and inspiring. It made me want a space in the studios and move to copenhagen even more!




From here we went to 2 Galleries in the Meat Market. This area was so much like Smithfields of London, early morning the meat was brought in and distributed, during the day there were galleries and at night a number of bars. However I may be biased and believe Smithfields is better looking! One gallery had Photos by Sigurdur Gudmundsson which were both hilarious and interesting as well as paintings by Ivan Anderson which I really enjoyed his use of media and form.



We stopped at a Coffee and Vinyl shop, which had some suspect music playing. There was a Parade of soldiers arriving back from Afghanistan, which was sad and patriotic all rolled into one.






Next was Keramik og Glaqsvaerkstedet which was full of Paul Scotts work and the lady who mage the light shades in our dinning room. I brought a new top on the way to the shop from a second hand shop that we popped into just quickly to get warm. Its a cute which shirt that I wore out that night. Our last cultural stop was the Decorative Arts Museum which had a timeline of objects similar to the Geffrye Museum in Bethnal Green. I saw some ceramic topped tables which were interesting that I thought I could do some work with. Also some modern design Classics by Kaare Klint, Poul Henningsen, Arne Jacobsen and Verner Panton as well as a ladder chair by Cecillie Manze that I liked.




That Night we had Dinner in a vegetarian restaurant in Christiania before going back to Tanja's house and getting ready to go out in the Meat District.