Copenhagen watch brand founded in 2017; every collection is designed by Jakob Wagner, whose work for Bang & Olufsen and HAY has also entered MoMA's permanent design collection since 2006.
Best for Sustainable minimalist watches
Nordgreen was founded in Copenhagen in 2017 by two Danish entrepreneurs aiming to build a watch brand around Scandinavian minimalist design. Rather than design in-house, the founders commissioned Copenhagen-based industrial designer Jakob Wagner, whose three-decade career includes work for Bang & Olufsen, HAY, Alessi, Cappellini, Stelton, and Muuto; Wagner is a five-time recipient of the iF Product Design Award, and a piece of his design work has been in the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection in New York since 2006. Wagner designed Nordgreen's core lines, including the Native collection, aiming for watches that read as classic rather than trend-driven, in cases running from 28mm to 40mm and finishes spanning silver, gold, rose gold, gunmetal, and black. The brand states it has sold more than 300,000 watches, and pairs its design positioning with a stated giving program tied to purchases. Assembly draws on components sourced from both China and Denmark.
Karamel Kompagniet cooks handmade caramels and fudge in Gudhjem, boiling small batches in copper pans and flavouring them with liquorice, sea salt and local ingredients. Visitors can watch the sweets being pulled and cut in the open workshop.
Pernille Bulow has blown glass in Svaneke since the early 1980s, and her studio produces coloured drinking glasses, vases and lamps in the expressive style that made her one of Bornholm's best-known designers. Visitors can watch the glassblowers at the furnace and buy from the adjoining shop.
A working glassblowing studio where glass is blown daily on weekdays, turning out cone and onion vases, optic and bongo bowls, lidded jars, pendant vases and glass jewellery. Visitors can watch the furnace work in the old merchant's courtyard before buying finished pieces in the adjoining shop.
A family confectioner pulling and cutting boiled sweets by hand on Nørregade since 1891, working with methods over a century old under a Danish royal warrant. Visitors can watch fruit drops, filled bonbons and liquorice being shaped in the open workshop.
City centre (near Rundetårn) and Østerbro harbour (Sea Lab)
A family-run ceramics and glass studio near the Round Tower, known for its hand-thrown Ghost figures, glazed lamps and hand-blown crystal. A harbourside space in Østerbro lets visitors watch glassblowing and throwing as it happens.
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