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ORBISHOME & DESIGN IN COPENHAGEN6 stores · curated ORBIS register
Værnedamsvej 6, Frederiksberg/Vesterbro / Online
DORA is a mother-and-daughter interior and vintage shop run by Frida Frank and Sara Aagaard on Værnedamsvej. The edit mixes design objects and vintage finds with small exclusive collaborations developed directly with selected designers.
Best for Homeware, gifts, glass, ceramics, textiles and stationery
Fredericiagade 57, Copenhagen / Online
Studio in a 19th-century apothecary — permanence-minded furniture, kitchens and scent; the St. Pauls Apotek shelving alone is worth the walk.
Best for Apothecary-housed design & scent
Østerbro, Copenhagen
HAY's concept store — the full range of HAY furniture, accessories, and collaborations in a beautiful Østerbro showroom. The seasonal sales are among Copenhagen design lovers.
Best for The HAY collection, the Østerbro showroom, and the seasonal sales.
Amagertorv 10, Copenhagen / Online
Four floors of Danish design orthodoxy since 1941 — the department store as national museum, everything purchasable. With artistic consultant Brita Drewsen, Dessau's BO presented fully arranged interiors rather than isolated stock — contemporary accounts describe the 1925–28 concept as previously unseen.
Best for Danish design under one roof
Illums Bolighus has traded on Amagertorv since 1941 as Copenhagen's — and by widespread consent Scandinavia's — definitive design department store: four floors given entirely to Nordic living, from furniture and lighting to ceramics, glass, textiles, and kitchenware. The store functions as a permanent survey of Danish modern and its heirs: Wegner and Jacobsen chairs, PH lamps, Kay Bojesen's teak monkey, Stelton and Georg Jensen steel, contemporary studio ceramics — the canon and its newest additions under one roof, staged with the store's celebrated Christmas displays as seasonal high point. For visitors it solves a real problem: Danish design is scattered across dozens of makers, and Illums assembles the whole argument in one building on Strøget. Buy the small classics — a Bojesen animal, a PH glass shade — as the portable essence of the Danish home.
Ship large purchases rather than carrying — the store handles export smoothly — and start at the top floor, working down as the rooms move from furniture to hand-luggage scale.
Bredgade 3, Copenhagen
Bredgade’s mid-century vault — Wegner, Juhl and Mogensen originals with provenance; the museum where everything has a price.
Best for Collectible Danish mid-century
Copenhagen / Østerbrogade 70 / Online
The design house of the Norm 69 lamp — Jan Andersen and Poul Madsen's 1999 challenge to Scandinavian convention, its flagship a 1,700 m² former cinema where furniture, lighting and fragrance are staged like exhibitions.
Best for Contemporary Danish design with a wink.
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