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At Focus 2026, Tollgard presents new work from Tollgård & Castellani -the design duo of Staffan Tollgård and Filippo Castellani - for Italian house, Riva1920, at the heart of a stand shared with De Castelli, Jeroen De Ruddere and Ceccotti Collezioni.

Solidity and softness runs through every piece: functional sculpture, made in the studio's own hand, where architectural forms have their edges quieted and their presence softened.

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Wood - Older Than Architecture

Join us at theTollgard Showroom for Wood, Older Than Architecture - a conversation exploring the enduring language of wood indesign, with product designers Jeroen De Ruddere, Staffan Tollgård and FilippoCastellani, hosted by Pip Rich, Executive Editor of Livingetc.

‍Date: Wednesday 16th September, 4.30pm

Location: Tollgard Showroom, Unit 115, Chelsea Harbour Design Centre, London SW10 0XE

Please email rsvp@tollgard.com to confirm attendance.

Riva1920

Suiseki (水石) translates as "water stone" - the Japanese art of appreciating a naturally formed stone for the landscape it evokes, held in miniature and contemplated for tranquility and longevity. Offered as a low table, a console and a dining table, the Suiseki collection moves Riva1920's language toward something more sculptural and fluid. Sharp edges are eased into organic shape. Monolithic, soft, harmonious.

Heiko 平衡) means balance and equilibrium. The Heiko dining chair is built around exactly that: structure and aesthetics in quiet dialogue. Sculptural and iconic, it is also grounded and refined, holding visual lightness alongside a chair that is genuinely comfortable to sit in.

De Castelli

Few makers understand metal the way De Castelli does. From their workshops in the Veneto, the house has spent four generations turning brass, copper and steel into surfaces with memory - oxidised, hand-finished, warm rather than cold. Two new pieces bring that craft into the collection.

Francesco Forcellini's Dorica sideboard lays the language of a classical column on its side: clad in metal, its front runs in vertical concave flutes that read as a quiet relief, opening on a polished steel interior. Adele Martelli's Light&Shade wall light sets two overlapping metal discs one before the other, the light glowing from the perimeter and the gap between -the metal doing the work of a shade. One grounded, one luminous; both unmistakably De Castelli.

Jeroen De Ruddere

Belgian designer Jeroen de Ruddere rests a softly diffused light on solid, turned wood, with his FL4 and FL5 floor lamps. The FL5 is a fitting close to the story. Its silhouette is drawn from a tree trunk: a solid, tapering wooden base in oak, mahogany or American walnut, carrying a softly diffusing fabric shade. Handmade and dimmable, it is architectural in presence and gentle in the light it gives - solidity and softness, in a single object.

Bieke Castelyn

Some pieces arrive with noise; the Clover settles. Hand-built in troweled cement stuc - each one signed, numbered and unique - its soft four-lobed top reads like a cloud at rest on a single rounded plinth. Matt, tactile and quietly warm, it comes in a range of powdery tones, with an Edged option that traces the silhouette in natural stone or afrormosia wood. Two sizes, custom height on request. Familiar in feeling, new in form.

Ceccotti Collezioni

Alongside the shared stand, Tollgard brings forward five new pieces from Ceccotti Collezioni, the Italian house at its Centre Dome showroom.The standout is the Captain Hook wall clock by Guglielmo Ulrich - a piece of design archaeology recreated from a single archival photograph of his 1940s original. A perpendicular beam in solid American walnut holds a brass dial, its numerals enamelled by hand, hands and fixings in burnished brass. Part of Ceccotti's Masters Tribute, it honours the overlooked design objects of the last century - the solid, softened, in its most literal form.

One idea, several houses

From Italy to the Netherlands and Belgium, Focus 2026 makes the case for a single thread running through very different materials and makers. It is the same instinct Tollgard brings to every project: finding the röda tråden, the creative DNA, at the point where environment, architecture and identity meet.

We look forward to welcoming you to the showroom soon.

If you’d like to know more about Focus, please get in touch with our showroom team, they would be delighted to help you.

Email: sales@tollgard.com | Phone: +44 (0)20 8067 2123

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Three days in Copenhagen: our guide to 3 Days of Design 2026

3daysofdesign is Denmark’s leading annual design event, turning Copenhagen into a playground for creative minds.

Every June, Copenhagen turns its showrooms, courtyards and back-streets into a slow, walkable conversation about how we live. 3 Days of Design - now in its thirteenth edition - runs from 10 to 12 June 2026, with around 400 brands spread across eight design districts: Holmen, Nordhavn, Islands Brygge, Kultur, Rosengård, Kongens Nytorv, Christianshavn and Frederiksstaden.

This year's theme is Make This Moment Matter. A quiet invitation, in the festival's own words, to step away from speculation and pay attention to what design is doing now, for the way we live, the materials we use, and the things we choose to keep.

We come back each year because it suits the way we think. The brands we represent are makers first: workshops, family-run mills, cabinetmakers, glass-blowers. Copenhagen in June is one of the few weeks where you can see most of them in the same city, in spaces they have shaped themselves. Here are the conversations we'll be following.

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The Craft of Permanence: Wood, Bone & the Nordic Tradition

House of Finn Juhl

A pointed choice this year: Explore a program centered around heritage, materiality, and craftsmanship. At their flagship showroom on Gothersgade, the exhibition The Deviation is in the Detail, curated by Mentze Ottenstein, unfolds from Finn Juhl's belief that true character emerges through nuance and attention to detail. In collaboration with Sea New York, embroidered textiles introduce a new perspective on Finn Juhl's iconic furniture. At Edition Copenhagen in Christianshavn, the installation The Workshop offers a closer look at the making of Finn Juhl's furniture, as the entire space is transformed into a living production site.

The Deviation is in the Detail
Location: House of Finn Juhl, Flagship Showroom, Gothersgade 9, Copenhagen

The Workshop
Location: Edition Copenhagen, Strandgade 66, Copenhagen

‍PP Møbler

A double anniversary year for the Wegner workshop: forty years of the Circle Chair, seventy-five of the Papa Bear and the Flag Halyard. The newly redesigned flagship turns into a working space for the duration - cabinetmaker and weaver in residence, the Circle Chair shown stage by stage from raw timber to woven seat. The most significant moment is the first production, by invitation, of the pp101: a 1955 Hans J. Wegner side-chair brought into the catalogue for the first time, drawn straight from the archive in oak or beech with a hand-woven linen webbing seat.

PP Møbler Flagship Store, Bryggernes Plads 11, 1799 Copenhagen V. 10–12 June, 10.00–18.00.

Gemla

Sweden's oldest furniture-maker, established in 1861, still steam-bending wood in Diö, joins the Frederiksstaden district this year. The Gemla story is one of long, patient craft: bentwood chairs that have evolved across generations through quiet collaboration with designers including Sami Kallio, Norm Architects and Färg & Blanche.

Residence of the Finnish Ambassador, Grønningen 11, CPH.

‍The New Originals: Contemporary Makers Redefining the Object

Meridiani

Meridiani returns to Copenhagen on two fronts. The Meridiani Point at Rue Verte holds the brand's current collections in central Copenhagen, while Meridiani House - Christine Callsen's five-room apartment on Strandvejen in Hellerup - continues as a fully furnished residential setting, the kind of slow, lived-in showroom we always recommend visitors make the journey north for. Their reading of Make This Moment Matter leans, as ever, on materials and atmosphere.

Meridiani Point at Rue Verte, Ny Østergade 11, 1101 Copenhagen K. Meridiani House, Strandvejen 163, 2900 Hellerup. 10–12 June, daily.

Vipp

Vipp return to 3days, where Barcelona-based architecture and design studio @mesura.eu reimagines the idea of a guesthouse. Typically a place of retreat, it becomes something else entirely. At Vipp’s Copenhagen campus, the Barcelona-based architecture and design studio presents a vibrant new take on the Vipp guesthouse - transforming it into a bold, immersive experience.

Vipp HQ, Snorresgade 22, 2300 Copenhagen S. 10–12 June, daily.

‍Overgaard & Dyrman

Jasper Overgaard trained as a leather craftsman. Christian Dyrman trained as a blacksmith. They met at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and in 2013 founded a studio that fuses these two ancient crafts into furniture for the present. Every O&D piece is made to order, individually stamped and numbered. Their Wire Collection - structural steel and aniline-dyed leather - caused an immediate sensation at Imm Cologne. The Circle Chair followed, its compass-inspired backrest designed to be observed from every angle. Furniture conceived as both functional object and three-dimensional art.

Studio & Showroom (by appointment) Frederiksgade 1, 4th floor, 1265 Copenhagen, Kongens Nytorv District

Van Rossum

Founded in a Dutch workshop in 1978, Van Rossum has spent nearly five decades perfecting what solid wood can be. Their sober, timeless aesthetic is built on certified oaks and European hardwoods, handcrafted by artisans who regard each piece as both functional object and quiet sculpture. At 3 Days of Design, the brand habitually expands its frame - expect not just dining tables and chairs, but new moves into lighting, rugs and accessories, each material conversation anchored in the same measured, gallery-like restraint that defines their scenography.

Nyhavn 71, 1051 Copenhagen, Wednesday 10 June to friday 12 June 2026

FORMARKIVET

A new form for classic. Formarkivet are exhibiting at their Nordhavn showroom during 3daysofdesign. New Dualism, their 2026 exhibition, holds that tension beautifully: classic principles and modern sensibilities, each pushing against the other until something original emerges. One of the ones to watch.

Århusgade 128D, 1st–2nd Floor, 2150 Copenhagen, in the Nordhavn district.

‍Malte Gormeson

The Herlev cabinetmaker once again decamps to its Cabinetmakers Gallery at The Conary in Frederiksstaden - the kind of space where you can read the joinery from across the room. The Malte Gormsen Kollektion sits alongside pieces by Space Copenhagen, Norm Architects, Nanna Ditzel and Christian+Jade, all built in the Herlev workshop. The MG Sofa by Space Copenhagen has been shortlisted for Furniture of the Year, and is worth sitting with quietly.

Malte Gormsen Cabinetmakers Gallery, The Conary, Dronningens Tværgade 26, 1302 Copenhagen K. 10–12 June, daily.

The Atmosphere Makers: Light, Crystal & the Presence of a Room

Jeroen De Ruddere

Belgian designer who shapes sculptural lighting from oak, walnut, mahogany and solid bronze is exhibiting Meet the Family, presenting the complete collection of his handcrafted wooden objects and lamps under one roof for the first time. A quiet, architectural body of work; very much in the conversation we like to have.

Jeroen De Ruddere, Frederiksgade 1, 3rd floor, 1265 Copenhagen K. 10–12 June, daily.

‍Anour

Anour is Farsi for light. It is also the name that architect Arash Nourinejad gave to his Copenhagen lighting studio in 2007, and the word perfectly captures what his lamps do: they make light feel like a material decision rather than an afterthought. Working with some of the last remaining braziers in Denmark - artisans who keep a dying craft alive - Anour produces handcrafted pendants, floor lamps and wall lights in brass, copper and blued steel, each individually surface-treated using organic oxidising techniques. The I-MODEL, their first and most iconic lamp, has grown into a whole family. Their new PARS collection introduces modular onyx, where natural stone veining means no two pieces are identical. Design rooted in the past, made by hand, built for the future.

28A Gallery (with Kolon & Norm Architects) Bredgade 28A, 1260 Copenhagen K

A-N-D

A real moment for the Vancouver studio: A-N-D opens its first permanent showroom outside Canada, in a listed Copenhagen courtyard building that once printed paper. Three floors, three functions, and three new lighting series from Lukas Peet and Caine Heintzman - shown alongside earlier pieces in a sensory presentation that suits the brand's instinct for light as material rather than fixture. We've been following A-N-D quietly for a few years; this feels like the right moment to introduce them properly to our European audience.

A-N-D Copenhagen, Studiestræde 34, 1455 Copenhagen K. 10–12 June, daily. Opening party Tuesday 9 June, evening.

‍Bomma

Bomma fills Copenhagen's newly reopened historic Court Theatre (Hofteatret) with their Fragments of Light installation - handblown crystal chandeliers accompanied by live performances every 30 minutes. A spectacular venue for spectacular lighting. Christiansborg / Rosengård District.

Hofteatret (Court Theatre)

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Explore a map of our favourite brands

The festival spans eight distinct design districts. These twelve venues form a natural walking route through the city's most beautiful neighbourhoods - from the grand Frederiksstaden palaces to Carlsberg Byen and the intimate streets of Rosengården.