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Design is to the Danes what food is to the French: a national pride, a
sense of purpose and the consummate “everyday” subject matter. So
enmeshed in design-thought are the Danes, they’ve festooned their
alphabet’s letters with slashes, rings and other sexy-making
diacritical marks. So during my first visit here to interview a new
crop of the city’s chefs, it was apropos that I bunked down at the hip
five-star First Hotel Skt. Petri, Copenhagen’s sole member of the Design Hotels group and Mecca for modern-design aficionados, architects and savvy
travelers who know a thing or two about Functionalist fenestration.
Danish design aims to capture the essence of hygge, which is a
sort of Scandinavian feng shui and loosely translated means “cozy, and
the snug state of mind coziness creates.” The Skt. Petri — a department
store transformed in 1993 by Danish designer Per Arnoldi (who also
produced the logo for the sparkling new Copenhagen Opera House)
— is exactly that.
Empty-nest jet setters and Europe’s spectacled
belle-monde standing underneath early modernist chandeliers in the
light-flooded lobby seem genuinely content to be taking in the room’s
literal brilliance, just as I did while lingering over my coffee,
organic yogurt and Hallegaard Farms salami at the adjacent in-house
restaurant Bleu, now serving a popular Sunday-afternoon gastro-brunch.
On June 19th...
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Heidi Mitchell is editor-in-chief of Town & Country Travel and Town & Country Weddings, and features and travel editor of Town & Country.
Adam H. Graham is a contributing writer for this blog; his work also frequently appears in Town & Country Travel, both in the magazine and online.
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