A kitchen that came home, and will go out again. At the centre of our Copenhagen showroom stands a kitchen we built in 2015. It has been lived with for a decade, and now it is back.
CaseExhibition
Type Kitchen, Showroom
ModelSolid Classic
MaterialeBurnished brass, Oak
Around it stand the most recent pieces from the workshop. At first glance, the difference is hard to see.
It is not a coincidence. It is the point.
For us, the measure of a piece of furniture has never been how it looks when it leaves the workshop. It has been how it looks ten, twenty, forty years later. Whether the wood has gained depth through use. Whether the joints still hold. Whether the design still feels inevitable rather than dated.
The returned kitchen is model Solid Classic in Dinesen HeartOak. It is not a restoration project. It required very little work. It came back because it was made properly from the beginning. The appliances have been replaced with refurbished models from the Swiss house V-ZUG, and the faucet is a Toni from their Vintage Repair Shop . Every part of the kitchen has been chosen or renewed by the same principle: to carry quality forward rather than replace it.
The kitchen points towards a practice we are currently developing. A buy-back model in which previous kitchens and interior solutions are bought back, carefully restored and brought into new homes and new projects. Made to Return, as the project is called, is both the proof and the beginning of that practice.
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Would you like a personal walk-through of the Made To Return kitchen and the showroom? We are happy to arrange a guided tour at a time that suits you. Please contact us to book.
mail@gardehvalsoe.dk +45 7022 2260
Garde Hvalsøe Showroom
Esplanaden 8D, ground floor
1263 Copenhagen K
Denmark
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