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A Postcard from Copenhagen

From 10–12 June, Copenhagen becomes the epicentre of global design as it hosts 3daysofdesign, Denmark’s official design festival and the city’s annual design week.

A Postcard from Copenhagen

From 10–12 June, Copenhagen becomes the epicentre of global design as it hosts 3daysofdesign, Denmark’s official design festival. Bringing together creatives, brands, and design enthusiasts from around the world, the event serves as an international platform for showcasing innovation, fostering collaboration, and exploring the ideas shaping the future of design.

The festival unfolds across Copenhagen’s designated Design Districts, transforming showrooms, studios, galleries, rooftops, and public spaces into vibrant hubs of creativity. Set against the backdrop of the city’s rich design heritage, award-winning architecture, and natural beauty, 3daysofdesign offers a unique opportunity to experience design in all its forms, both indoors and out.

This year’s theme, Make This Moment Matter, reflects a collective shift from more to meaningful. It champions purposeful design, work that goes beyond aesthetics to create connection, evoke emotion, and leave a lasting impact. 

VÆRKTØJ 3
Gothersgade 30, 1123 Copenhagen

VÆRKTØJ examines the profound role of tools as collaborators in the creative process. More than passive instruments, tools shape the way designers think, experiment, and make. They influence decisions, define limitations, unlock possibilities, and ultimately become embedded in the character of the finished work. The exhibition invites visitors to consider how creative outcomes are not only the result of individual vision, but also of the tools through which that vision is realised.

For this edition, the sewing machine serves as the exhibition’s common point of departure. Familiar yet endlessly versatile, it becomes a catalyst for exploration across disciplines and practices. Each participant is challenged to engage with the machine in their own way, transforming a shared tool into a vehicle for personal expression. The resulting works reveal the diverse ways a single instrument can be interpreted, manipulated, and reimagined, highlighting the dialogue between maker, machine, and material.

Sankt Peders Stræde 35A, 1453 Copenhagen

Bread and Butter is a nomadic exhibition platform that explores everyday rituals through the lens of paired objects. Inviting designers from different generations and cultural backgrounds, it transforms personal routines and local traditions into functional pairs that reveal the social, cultural, and sensory dimensions of daily life.

The second edition turned to bathing. More than a hygienic act, bathing was approached as a ritual of restoration and reflection. Yet these moments are as much shared as they are personal. From Danish harbour bathing and Finnish saunas to Korean jjimjilbangs and Japanese onsens, bathing unfolded within collective traditions that blurred the boundaries between self and others. 

Following the first edition's exploration of dining, the exhibition brought together 16 designers, each translating their own bathing rituals and cultural perspectives into a perfect pair.

Kronprinsessegade 4, 1306 Copenhagen

&Tradition presented Traces, an exhibition that explored the enduring marks of design, craft, and culture. Through process, material, and making, it reflected on how every act of creation carries both legacy and impact, shaping what is inherited and what is left behind.

Bringing together exhibitions and new product launches, including a new anniversary edition of the Flowerpot pendant, Traces examined the connections that bridge tradition and innovation, past and future.

Løvstræde 1, 1152 Copenhagen

The Fredericia showroom brought together mid-century icons and contemporary design, highlighting the brand’s enduring commitment to craftsmanship. Alongside landmark pieces and recent releases by Nanna Ditzel, Cecilie Manz, Mogens Koch, Barber Osgerby, and Børge Mogensen, visitors encountered Fredericia: A Chronicle of Danish Design, an exhibition first presented at the Triennale during Milan Design Week.

Tracing more than a century of furniture-making, the exhibition combined archival works, contemporary designs, and artworks to place furniture within a broader cultural narrative.

Fredericia also hosted ‘Who Gets to Shape Danish Design?’, a conversation exploring the future of Danish design with Marco Sammicheli (Director at Triennale Milano), Keiji Takeuchi, Hugo Passos, Maria Bruun (designers) and Rasmus Graversen (CEO of Fredericia). Moderated by Rosa Bertoli. (Global Design Director at Wallpaper*)

Ofelia Plads, Kvæsthusbroen, 1250 Copenhagen

To mark the 90th anniversary of Alvar Aalto's iconic vase, Iittala and Hydro unveiled a pavilion designed by Tableau that transformed the celebrated object into an architectural experience.

Standing seven metres tall, the walk-in structure reinterpreted the vase's distinctive flowing silhouette at an immersive scale. Constructed from low-carbon aluminium, the pavilion translated the contours of the design, originally created by Alvar and Aino Aalto, into a contemporary spatial form.

Inside, visitors encountered Iittala's new Aalto City Vase collection, a series inspired by cities around the world and launched to coincide with the anniversary, creating a dialogue between the historic design and its latest evolution.


For more Copenhagen highlights, join us behind the scenes on Instagram.

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