A manufacturing unit that when made Denmark’s basic Viking faculty pencils now comprises a one-room resort conceived by homeware model Vipp.
The 90-square-metre resort – which is aptly known as Vipp Pencil Case – is located on the manufacturing unit’s floor flooring and accessed through a sun-dappled courtyard.
That is one in every of six hospitality areas that Vipp has established for design-conscious travellers – others embody Vipp Shelter, a pre-fab cabin nestled alongside the shores of Lake Immeln in Sweden, and Vipp Farmhouse, an 18th-century dwelling positioned in a rural pocket of Denmark’s Lolland island.
The interiors of Vipp Pencil Case is the work of Danish designer Julie Cloos Mølsgaard, who spent a yr curating a impartial but heat house that she felt sat comfortably throughout the industrial setting.
On the coronary heart of the resort room is a light-filled residing and eating space. To 1 facet lies a powder-grey version of Vipp’s V1 kitchen suite, the place company are invited to rustle up their very own meals.
To the opposite facet of the house is a big oak eating desk with a Jura stone countertop, and numerous storage cupboards that maintain further crockery and cookware.
Woven baskets, ceramic vases and modern artworks have been dotted all through as ornament.
“Vipp Pencil Case isn’t your common resort room – extra like a studio or atelier, it elicits an inventive atmosphere and holds a uncommon quietude within the coronary heart of the Danish capital”, defined Mølsgaard.
A set of tall sliding doorways may be pushed again to disclose the bed room, which has been dressed with a few marble-topped facet tables and a plump white seating pouf.
Mild streaming by the constructing’s expansive crittal-style home windows is dampened by floor-to-ceiling Kvadrat curtains.
The picket floorboards that function right here and all through the remainder of the resort room are supposed to nod to the materiality of Viking pencils, and the truth that the constructing additionally as soon as served as a showroom for wood floors model Dinesen.
The room additionally features a glossy bathe room that is been virtually solely clad with jet-black tiles.
Viking’s former manufacturing unit is positioned throughout the water from central Copenhagen on Island Brygge. This isn’t Vipp’s first intervention on website – late final yr, the model remodeled one other a part of the manufacturing unit right into a supper membership the place cooks from around the globe can host intimate eating experiences.
Its interiors had been additionally designed by Mølsgaard, who stuffed the house with picket furnishings and tactile rugs and cushions.
The pictures is by Rasmus Hjortshøj.
