Every project at the studio starts the same way: with a wooden tray, a pile of samples and a long afternoon. By the end of the first week we usually have forty candidates on the table. By the end of the month we have six.
Start with the floor
The floor is the largest surface in most rooms and the hardest to change later, so we choose it first. Oak, pine, limestone or tile: once that is decided, everything else has a reference point.
Look at it in your light
Samples look completely different under the studio's north light than they do in a south-facing flat in Frederiksberg. We leave every shortlisted sample in the client's home for at least a week.
- Floor first, then walls, then joinery
- No more than two woods in one room
- One material that will age visibly, on purpose
A good palette should still feel right in ten years, not just on the day we photograph it.Freja Lund
When the tray is down to six pieces, we photograph it, label it and keep it on the shelf until the project is finished. It settles a surprising number of debates.
