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Thanks to the rapid ascension of brands like Ganni and Saks Potts in recent years, Danish fashion has become a global sensation with its unusual silhouettes, playful colors and patterns, and effortless, bike-ready vibe. The same trendsetting sensibility can be said of Scandinavian art and design, which is flourishing more than ever. While Scandinavian style has been at the vanguard of modern living for over a century, Copenhagen’s 3 Days of Design festival has firmly cemented the Danish city as a design capital.
Since launching in 2013, the summer festival has mushroomed from a four-brand presentation to a citywide extravaganza in which hundreds of stores, showrooms, galleries, and restaurants showcase the best in historic and contemporary design. Held from June 18 through 20, this year’s edition was themed “Keep It Real,” promoting designs that, as the festival’s press materials describe, are “authentic, original, caring of people—and the planet.”
Below, discover a selection of 3 Days of Design’s most striking exhibitions, collaborations, and product releases, from statement-making modular furniture to decorative flourishes that harness the restorative power of outdoor living.
Romanticize your sleep with Tekla’s dainty bedding
Since launching in 2017, Tekla has expanded from bedding into sleepwear, bathroom sets, and more. For its latest launch, the Danish homeware and textile brand returns to its roots with a collection of broderie anglaise duvet covers, pillow shames, and decorative pillows. A departure from Tekla’s signature stripes and distinctive colors, the crisp white palette hearkens back to handcrafted textiles of centuries past, complete with delicate embroidery, stitching, and lace. Tekla introduced the airy and elegant collection through Modern Romance, a collaborative exhibition with Copenhagen-based architectural studio Mentze Ottenstein at Charlottenborg Palace—a dreamy and aptly historical venue.
Artek and Marimekko’s first collaboration fuses printmaking with wood bending
This year Finnish furniture company Artek is celebrating its 90th anniversary by collaborating with another icon of Finnish design, Marimekko. The limited-edition collection, which was previewed at 3 Days of Design and will launch globally on September 4, 2025, features Alvar Aalto’s birchwood Stool 60, Table 90D, and Bench 153B. By interspersing different wood grains in circular and wavy patterns, the collection reimagines Marimekko’s signature prints. Pragmatic yet playful, these pieces embody the breadth of Scandinavian style and innovation.
Kvadrat’s curtains make spray paint serene
Frequency, the newest collection from textile purveyor Kvadrat—one of four Danish companies to launch 3 Days of Design—brings together visions from three distinctive designers: Isa Glink (Creative Director at Kvadrat Residential), German interior-architecture firm Studio Greiling, and Berlin- and Luxembourg-based Studio Meyers Fügmann. Each design in the wide range of rugs and curtains uniquely plays with color and light, largely through transparency and clever tonal shifts. For the artfully inclined, Scan, designed by Studio Meyers Fügmann, is a standout cotton and hemp offering that comes in three inspiring ombré colorways. The digital print is based on an analogue design technique that layers colors through silkscreen printing, overlaid with spray paint. The result is ethereal, prismatic, and unlike anything on the market.
Helle Mardahl’s colorful creations are sealed with a kiss
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Following a career in fashion, Central Saint Martins-trained designer Helle Mardahl debuted her candy-colored glassware at the 2018 edition of 3 Days of Design. Since then, the Danish artist has produced a rainbow’s worth of lamps, Bonbonniere jars, and tableware, all masterpieces of contrasting colors and sinuous forms. This year, Mardahl presented an exhibition titled Nostalgia, which introduced a more detailed direction for the designer. Dozens of petite drinking glasses and vases, each one of a kind, appeared as if stamped with wax seals featuring ears, eyes, mouths, and noses. With this series—an ode to heirlooms—Mardahl also pays tribute to the senses that shape one’s experience of the world.
Finnish designers perfect the art of outdoor living
One of 3 Days of Design’s most poetic exhibitions was 10 Days of Summer, a collaboration between the Finnish Cultural Institute in Denmark and a group of Finnish or Finland-based designers. Curated by Anne Blond, director of Denmark’s Museum Wegner, the show embraced the magical, yet short-lived, period of sunny summer weather in the Nordics, where life shifts outdoors. From birdhouses to barbecues, the display of everyday objects and furniture was a masterclass in how thoughtful design can enrich one’s physical and mental health. Standouts included Jonas Lutz’s greenhouse-inspired display case, which seeks to “extend the feeling of joyous summer,” and Aino Michelsen’s Pomello Chair, a colorful steel, nylon, and polypropylene cord design, sure to be the chicest seat on the beach.
Sophie Bille Brahe’s Venetian vases double as jewels for the home
With its picturesque canals, expertly crafted glass lights, and rich history of artisanship, Venice has long enchanted Sophie Bille Brahe. The Danish jewelry designer has increasingly dabbled in home decor, and anyone who has visited her Copenhagen and New York showrooms can attest to her eye for exquisite interiors. A limited-edition extension of her Cellophane glassware collection, the newly launched Bouquet de Venezia vases capture the iridescence and femininity of Brahe’s diamonds and pearls. Hand-blown in Murano, the collection features a clear, opalescent hue, as well as the peachy-pink Bellini.
Svenskt Tenn invites you to its colorful world
Svenskt Tenn, one of Sweden’s premier design brands, made a rare appearance outside of its transportive Stockholm store with its 3 Days of Design debut this year. Hosted in a private residential apartment in Copenhagen’s Christianshavn district, the exhibition combined its historic furniture, boldly patterned textiles, and pewter objects with new releases, all honoring Svenskt Tenn founder Estrid Ericson’s and Austrian-Swedish designer Josef Frank’s vision. It’s been a particularly historic year for Svenskt Tenn, which turned 100 last year, and celebrates Frank’s 140th birthday in 2025. To mark the occasions, Svenskt Tenn reissued a number of designs, including a green version of its hypnotic floral Eldblomma wallpaper, designed by Frank in the 1940s; a pewter fish platter, designed by Björn Trägårdh in 1931; and a new series of whimsical trays from its ongoing “Beneath the Same Sky” collection made in collaboration with the estate of Greek artist Alekos Fassianos.
Tableau and Edition Solenne’s objets d’arts will turn your home into a gallery
In 2018, floral designer Julius Værnes Iversen founded Tableau, a multidisciplinary creative studio, exhibition space, and floral boutique whose avant-garde arrangements could be seen across Copenhagen during 3 Days of Design. This year’s edition of the festival also saw the launch of Project Materia, an ongoing collaboration between Tableau and Edition Solenne, which produces art objects in limited editions. With functional art in mind, Project Materia examines the role of material history in contemporary practice. For its first exhibition, held in a sunny courtyard in central Copenhagen, nine internationally renowned artists—including Argentinian digital artist Andrés Reisinger, Danish painter Cathrine Raben Davidsen, and Danish designer Louise Roe—crafted sculptures composed of materials used since antiquity: bronze, marble, and glass. To encourage a deeper connection to the materials, all participants spent time in Pietrasanta, Italy, which has hosted artists—from Michelangelo to Isamu Noguchi—for centuries.
Fogia’s brutalist table system presents endless possibilities
With sustainability at the forefront of Scandinavian design, some brands are taking these practices to the next level. Take, for example, Swedish design brand Fogia, which has collaborated with leading designer Monica Förster on Kern, a modular table system that is as versatile and eye-catching as it is resourceful. The collection consists of a coffee table and side table made entirely from Outt, a new groundbreaking material composed of marble waste from quarries in Northern Italy. Thanks to its innovative manufacturing process, marble chips (used to make terrazzo) and marble dust, which acts as a binder, can be repurposed. Offered in three neutral colorways, the tables come in multiple heights and configurations and can be used indoors and outdoors. They are surprisingly smooth to touch, and no two tables are the same, as the corner breaks are done by hand.
Volum offers the latest in cutting-edge Norwegian design
Volum, an independent exhibition platform for contemporary Norwegian design, launched this year during 3 Days of Design with Volum 100, a dynamic presentation of work by 10 designers and artists. Curated by Kråkvik D’Orazio, an Oslo-based creative studio in collaboration with the team behind Norwegian Presence (an annual showcase of Norwegian design at Salone del Mobile), Volum 100 was presented at Other Circle. This international design exhibition from the production team behind production house The Lab Copenhagen blurred the boundaries between form and function with idiosyncratic objects, such as Marianne Skarbøvik’s Chained Candelabra and Kristine Five Melvær’s found ceramic vessels covered in Norwegian textiles.