Copenhagen\u2019s 3 Days of Design offers a glimpse into the future of interiors, where warmth, craft and character are replacing minimalism. <\/b><\/p>\n
\n 3DD literally festoons Copenhagen for three whole days – in brand showrooms, converted apartments and purpose-built installations, as well as ground floors of historic buildings, rooms behind restaurants
\n and private apartments. This makes it feel like a glorious mashup between a design tradeshow and a string of intimate dinner parties.\n <\/p>\n
This year\u2019s theme was Make This Moment Matter, \u201cencouraging a collective recalibration from more to meaningful\u201d and the mood was considered and assured. If you were wondering what comes after minimalism, Copenhagen had the answer: warmth, craft and depth.<\/p>\n
Interiors focused on atmosphere, emotion and ritual rather than visual perfection. There was a strong emphasis on craftsmanship, heritage and longevity, with decorative objects, lighting and accessories playing a larger storytelling role. Rather than \u2018curated\u2019, our homes should feel \u2018collected\u2019, and most importantly, comfortable.<\/p>\n
Here are my five trend take-aways and how you can use them at home.<\/p>\n
Muuto treated colour as something emotional rather than decorative.<\/p>\n
Trend 1: Colour finds its nerve<\/p>\n
The palette shift that started last year has now fully arrived. Richer, darker and warmer, oxblood and burgundy dominated entire room settings at designers Gubi, Fritz Hansen and &Tradition. The blond timbers and pale linens that have been a signature of northern European interiors for a decade are done.<\/p>\n
Purple and cobalt blues were also chiming into the tone fest with chocolate, tobacco, rust and caramel entering as the new neutrals.<\/p>\n
Greens have evolved, too. Sage is out and olive, moss and forest are in – and when paired with walnut or dark stone, could almost be interpreted as neutral.<\/p>\n
Sky blue appeared repeatedly as a compositional counterpoint, cooling and balancing the richer palettes. Norr 11 demonstrated this range with rigorous glamour: deep chocolates and greens anchored by caramel and champagne, with rust and chrome used as punctuation.<\/p>\n
For the colour-forward, lilac, peach and butter pastels appeared at Muuto and Hay and were treated as emotionally expressive rather than decorative or matchy-matchy.<\/p>\n
Bring it home:<\/b> No need to repaint. A single armchair in oxblood, using wine-coloured linen napkins or incorporating a chocolate throw will shift the temperature of a room more than you\u2019d expect. If deep colour feels like a risk, start with an object: a vase, a lamp, a cushion: then give it a wall to lean against.<\/p>\n
The Summer Nights collective exhibition uses layering.<\/p>\n
Trend 2: The collected interior<\/p>\n
The clearest macro shift of the festival was a deliberate move away from the highly edited, nothing-out-of-place interior that appears to have defined aspirational design for the last 15 years. In its place were rooms that felt lived-in – as though someone had been creating and collecting for a very long time.<\/p>\n
Ferm Living created residential environments rather than showrooms. Art leaned on walls, books sat on shelves without being alphabetised, a collected ceramic sat next to a family heirloom.<\/p>\n
Eilersen named their showroom \u2018Eilersen House\u2019 and was shaped entirely around how people actually move through and inhabit their homes, rather than how those homes appear in styled shoots.<\/p>\n
&Tradition boasted dark walnut, layered textiles and vintage-influenced shapes. The spaces felt evolved, as opposed to just arriving, while Normann Copenhagen summed up the same idea philosophically: furniture as something that adds meaning, connecting people and spaces.<\/p>\n
Bring it home:<\/b> Layering is the technique. A textured cushion, a second lamp, a piece of artwork propped rather than hung, and a ceramic from a holiday. Juxtapose objects, artwork and furniture from different periods. Resist the urge to match. The goal is accumulation and authenticity, not coordination.<\/p>\n
Claire Delmar presented handwoven textiles alongside ceramic and stone accents.<\/p>\n
Trend 3: Craft and longevity<\/p>\n
The craft message this year was specific: how something is made is as important as how it looks.<\/p>\n
The emphasis was on objects and furniture that accumulate meaning over time, that are designed to age, and are imbued with maker identity. The idea is that these pieces gain rather than lose value over time.<\/p>\n
Carl Hansen & Son anchored their exhibition in the enduring relevance of skilled making with the confidence of a brand doing precisely this for over a hundred years, in solid oak, woven paper cord, leather, wool boucle and stone.<\/p>\n
Interior designer Claire Delmar\u2019s group show featured a curation of Australian designers presenting handwoven textiles, natural fibres and ceramic and stone accents that celebrated visible craftsmanship and irregularity as a valuable asset.<\/p>\n
Origin Made showed ceramics and woven objects that resist the feeling of having been produced in the thousands.<\/p>\n
FDB M\u00f8bler collaborated with Danish textile artist L\u00e6rke Bagger to introduce handcrafted cushions onto their wood-focused range: reinforcing the idea that design gains value through hands, time and personality.<\/p>\n
And Tekla repurposed archival cotton into heirloom patchwork quilts, displayed inside antique enclosed box-beds. Humble, beautiful, and deliberate, this was craft reinterpreted for a modern audience.<\/p>\n
Bring it home:<\/b> Invest in pieces that improve with age. Seek out natural materials like solid timber, stone, linen and leather in pieces you intend to keep. Look for visible craft: a glazed ceramic, a hand-thrown pot, a textile with real weight. These objects don\u2019t date because they were never fashionable to begin with. They\u2019re just good.<\/p>\n
Gubi featured ceramics and dark timber. <\/p>\n
Trend 4: Texture over pattern<\/p>\n
The boucl\u00e9 moment is over – replaced with something arguably more interesting. The fabrics dominating this year are deeply textural but not ostentatious: brushed wool, heavy linen, artisan weaves that ask to be touched.<\/p>\n
Dark timber was everywhere. Walnut and smoked oak were the standouts with plenty of carved textures and mixing of light and medium tones.<\/p>\n
Coloured marble was a consistent feature, with travertine nowhere to be seen. Think darker, more dramatic.<\/p>\n
In metals, aluminium and steel were architecturally dominant, with brass conspicuously absent after years at the centre. Chrome appears to be having a moment, particularly at Norr 11, where we saw it complementing textured fabrics, avant-garde (almost otherworldly) ceramics, and mural wallpapers evoking 17th-century tapestries.<\/p>\n
Craft-led ceramics were in almost every district – acting as considered focal points as opposed to decorative afterthoughts. The sculptural mouth-blown glass vessels at iittala were in amber, moss green, cobalt, smoky grey and soft lilac.<\/p>\n
Bring it home:<\/b> Introduce texture before colour. A linen cushion, a heavy knit throw, a rough-glazed ceramic or a timber tray. These things change the sensory register of a room in ways paint or pattern rarely do. When everything feels nice to touch, a room feels right even when it isn\u2019t finished. Prioritise comfort. The most successful interiors aren\u2019t just beautiful: they feel genuinely enjoyable to live in.<\/p>\n
Lighting at the House of Making exhibit.<\/p>\n
Trend 5: Lighting as architecture<\/p>\n
Across the festival, lighting was used to frame rather than merely illuminate: a tool for defining spatial experience, shaping atmosphere and shifting the emotional temperature of a room.<\/p>\n
Royal Copenhagen\u2019s tablescaping presentation reinforced the broader shift: decorative objects and lighting are now primary design decisions, not finishing touches.<\/p>\n
In black, bronze and warm white, Vibia showed sculptural pendants and integrated LED systems that effectively blurred the boundary between object and architecture.<\/p>\n
Gubi\u2019s statement pendants and layered ambient light made richly coloured rooms feel cinematic.<\/p>\n
Bring it home:<\/b> Add a floor lamp before you buy another piece of furniture. Layer ambient, task and accent lighting with dimmers throughout. Lighting is the fastest, cheapest way to make a room feel genuinely designed.<\/p>\n
Hannah Middleton is Baya\u2019s head of design.<\/b><\/p>\n
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