White apartment in an 18th-century house in Copenhagen
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24 Dec 2022
The owner of this apartment, Karin Schandorf, decided to preserve the details of the old house without obscuring them with bright colors. In the updated interiors, she introduced a small number of shades (straw, cream-white and charcoal gray), preserving color harmony
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The owner of this apartment Karin Schandorff (Karin Schandorff) was born in Denmark, but lives and works in Germany, where she has her own company Little Chelsea. She searches for and buys old houses — preferably late XIX century-early XX century — then restores or repairs them and puts them up for sale with updated interiors. Once in this old house of 1783 in the center of Copenhagen, Karin could not resist and bought an apartment for her family.
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It was important for the family that the apartment was located in the center, where you can feel the atmosphere of the old streets and alleys. "There are many big cities in the world, but none of them can compare with Copenhagen, where there is both a cosmopolitan dynamic environment and at the same time a sense of home," says Karin, who has visited many cities around the world.
She decided to preserve the details of the old apartment (the original stucco, doors, door jambs and fireplace portal) and emphasize their graphic beauty with the help of white. Its shades, including the color of eggshells and melted milk, are present not only on the walls, but also in the furniture, the rest of the colors Karin chose from a palette of gray and black. So in the living room she put a wardrobe and a sideboard made to order by a familiar Berlin carpenter, and graphite Camaleonda armchairs and sofas designed by Mario Bellini for B&B Italia.
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An old fireplace has been preserved in the kitchen, which could not be fully restored and brought to working condition. Then Karin decided to install a wood—burning stove inside his giant portal - now there is a living fire here. The black kitchen from Uno form was installed without upper cabinets so as not to clutter up the space and not distract attention from the wall with the fireplace. And Karin found a large round table at a vintage auction in Belgium, complementing it with original chairs from the 1950s created by Pierre Jeanneret for the Indian utopia city of Chandigarh.
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For the floors, Karin used wooden boards, tinted with white lacquer, to match the light walls. The hostess likes the white base of the interiors very much, the light walls perfectly reflect natural and artificial light. "For me, light is one of the most important things in the house, helping to shape the perception of space and the furniture itself," she says.
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The sculptural black Roly Poly chair is made by the British designer Faye Toogood.
Karin often draws inspiration from the films of David Lynch, her choice of furniture balances between modern and historical. She can easily buy design classics and convert items into modern fabric. She likes stools and chairs that look like sculptures, and light curtains that do not hide the light. And she also likes to have "air" around the furniture — so that the design and individual character of each thing can fully reveal itself. Therefore, there is not a lot of furniture in the rooms and a lot of free space.
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Cream sofas, de Sede. Carpet, Beyond Marrakech.
There are many works of art in the apartment — pencil drawings and lithographs that fit perfectly into black and white interiors. Karin likes to outweigh them from place to place, changing the situation in the rooms depending on her mood.
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In the bedroom, Krin hung light Gardinbussen curtains. Bed, IKEA. Bedside tables, Pottery Barn. Panthella Mini lamps, Louis Poulsen. Linen bedspread, Zara Home. Rug, RugVista.
