{"id":706288,"date":"2025-11-18T12:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T09:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=706288"},"modified":"2025-11-18T12:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T09:38:10","slug":"you-can-now-spend-the-night-at-this-newly-reopened-copenhagen-design-hotspot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=706288","title":{"rendered":"You Can Now Spend the Night at This Newly Reopened Copenhagen Design Hotspot"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By <\/span>Eleanor Cording-Booth<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

November 18, 2025<\/p>\n

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    When you tell a design-literate friend that you\u2019re going to The Apartment in Copenhagen,\u00a0its name likely brings to mind a medley of color and print, with a Svenskt Tenn chair here, an Akari lamp there, and tabletops dotted with paper plants by The Green Vase. For those in the know (around 100,000 people on Instagram alone), it\u2019s not just an<\/em> apartment, it\u2019s the<\/em> apartment.<\/p>\n

    Founded in 2011 as a shoppable gallery and showroom by designer and curator Tina Seidenfaden Busck, for the past 14 years, its reputation and influence has traveled far beyond Denmark. Then, without fanfare or fuss, The Apartment quietly closed its doors earlier this year. Thankfully for its many long-standing fans (including this writer), it wasn\u2019t the end\u2014merely an evolution. After a fallow period of renovation and reinvention, it relaunches this month as a carefully curated place to stay, and with a revised name: The Apartment Residence and Space.<\/p>\n

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    The Apartment was (and still is) based in an imposing 18th-century building overlooking the canal in Christianshavn. It\u2019s where Busck and her husband raised their children, and where her husband\u2019s mother has lived for 50 years, making it a place full of happy memories. It was this love of creating a home that led Busck to turn an empty apartment into a joyful, lamp-lit gallery space, decorated as if she might live there. Shoppers would ring a buzzer at the gate to be welcomed in, and if an antique quilt, rattan chair, or rare ceramic caught their eye, they could buy it. The Apartment quickly became a Copenhagen landmark for interior aficionados. Especially because, in a country respected for its good taste and design pedigree, but arguably best known for restrained Nordic palettes and pared-back furniture, Busck\u2019s playful and pattern-heavy approach always stood out as distinctive.<\/p>\n

    On a brisk Copenhagen morning earlier this month, I met Busck halfway up the building\u2019s winding stairs. She was heading down to help carry my bags, dressed cheerfully in a skirt and jacket combination that made me regret my dull black jeans and sneakers\u2014clearly, Busck is the embodiment of the bright and mood-lifting interiors she\u2019s known for.<\/p>\n

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    \u201cI’ve always been a curious person, and I like to find things that aren\u2019t obvious, but I also grew up with a father who was very much into decorating and collecting art,\u201d the designer tells me. \u201cI remember a friend of his was especially daring in the way he used color, such as bright yellow in a living room, with chintz curtains and contemporary art. From a young age, I\u2019d go with my father to auctions and museums, so I have been super-influenced by his taste.\u201d<\/p>\n

    After running a home-style showroom that\u2019s open to the public, Busck has pivoted to create a comfortable retreat for aesthetes who appreciate an experience more elevated and unique than a hotel room. It was the right time for a change, and Busck always trusts her instincts. \u201cWhen I decided to close, it was without knowing what would happen next. I just needed to do something different,\u201d she says. \u201cBack in 2011, my father thought I was mad to open a space on the second floor of a residential building, but I went along with it anyway, because I\u2019ve always followed my gut. I\u2019m glad I did it, but by the time it closed, I\u2019d started to feel trapped. I\u2019d taken advice to expand and open a webshop, so I was selling everything from trays to napkins\u2014and even as it was being developed, I knew something wasn\u2019t right. I realised I had moved too far from where I started, back when I was mostly focused on curating art. I\u2019d put myself into a corner that didn\u2019t feel like me anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

    The vacation rental concept still fosters Busck\u2019s love of creating unique, richly layered spaces, while also offering an immersive opportunity for those inspired by her taste. Decor enthusiasts hoping to study and learn from her approach can book a stay and, for a short time, live entirely inside her whimsical world. A couple of times a year, she estimates, the versatile two-bedroomed space will also be used for exhibitions, so there will still be an occasional opportunity for people to visit, even if they\u2019re not overnight guests.<\/p>\n

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    Now that Busck is no longer staffing a gallery or worrying about packing and restocking homeware, she has more time to take on interior decorating projects, one-off design consultations, and use her many contacts to source specific pieces for clients. This changed direction seems like the best of all worlds, and the designer\u2019s enthusiasm is palpable. \u201cI really love what I\u2019m doing with The Apartment now\u2014I feel so energised and inspired again,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    This isn\u2019t Busck\u2019s first rodeo with a vacation rental. She first launched The Apartment Residence in 2018 (in the same building as the showroom and her home), but the Covid pandemic forced its premature closure in 2020. In a moment of serendipitous timing, that same apartment\u2019s long-term tenant moved out this year, so Busck seized upon the opportunity to finish what she\u2019d started. \u201cI felt so uplifted when this apartment became available again, just as I was closing the showroom,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

    For breathless guests who\u2019ve climbed the stairs to the fourth floor, The Apartment Residence rewards them with an impressive amount of space for a group of four. There are two bedrooms decorated with antique metal beds and wallpaper from Marthe Armitage, plus a generous bathroom with a spectacular green marble floor that complements the soft pink walls, and a luxurious freestanding tub (apparently a rarity in this city of small bathrooms and quick showers).<\/p>\n

    There are two large living spaces full of cushioned spots to sit and delve into Busck\u2019s substantial collection of art and design books (they\u2019re on almost every surface, and stacks of them double as doorstops). However, the best seat to claim is a high-sided sofa that feels almost bed-sized\u2014it\u2019s made to Busck\u2019s own design and covered in a bold print that we both love called Strawberry Leaf by Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler. \u201cI have a soft spot for red and brown together. I think there needs to be a bit of red in every room,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n

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    The designer\u2019s preference for soft lamp lighting, hand-woven baskets, vintage furniture and displays of collected objects all contribute to the feeling of a much-loved, incredibly special home. Though it\u2019s really Busck\u2019s ability to use endless colors and prints in a single space that\u2019s something to marvel at. I stopped counting at 11 different fabrics in the living room, with Soane Britain, D\u00e9cors Barbares, and Carolina Irving among many esteemed textile brands she\u2019s chosen. On paper, it sounds like mayhem, but her instinctive eye for combining and layering means every space feels intentional and inspiring.<\/p>\n

    Busck acknowledges that she has become known for mixing and matching, and people tell her they could never use that many fabrics in one room. \u201cI don\u2019t even really think about it,\u201d she admits, \u201cI just choose what I like. And somehow it comes together.\u201d Though she does acknowledge that each room has a thread that ties it to the next, even if it\u2019s not immediately obvious, and that\u2019s what makes the space as a whole feel harmonious.<\/p>\n

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    When The Apartment first launched in 2011, all the walls were white, but Busck quickly became more experimental and confident with colors, which eventually culminated in her own 33-shade paint collection\u2014a collaboration with natural Danish paint brand, St. Leo. Naturally, every color within the space is from her own range. Bell Green (named after artist Vanessa Bell) covers the walls of the dining room, and a large piece by 91-year-old artist Isabella Ducrot looks magnificent against it, as does a M\u00e4rta M\u00e5\u00e5s-Fjetterstr\u00f6m tapestry. Busck declares Ducrot\u2019s artwork as her favorite item in the apartment: \u201cI\u2019m completely amazed by this woman,\u201d she smiles.<\/p>\n

    The separate kitchen with its bright red freestanding unit is large enough to sit in, but with only a two-hob stove, a small kettle and an espresso machine, it\u2019s not designed for cooking. As Busck rightly points out, Copenhagen is a superb city for food, so guests would miss half the fun if they didn\u2019t take a morning stroll 10 minutes down the canal for delicious coffee from Prolog (who also stock pastries from iconic bakery, Juno) or Hart Bageri, which features in an episode of The Bear<\/em>. There\u2019s an overwhelming choice of restaurants and wine bars in the city, and most are within a 10-15 minute ride on a Lime bike. Everyone cycles here and it\u2019s the best way to maximize a weekend\u2014but do as the Danes do, and learn the arm signals before you take to two wheels. You want to get back to spend a cozy evening at The Apartment in one piece, after all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

    Source URL: http:\/\/vogue.com\/article\/the-apartment-copenhagen-vacation-rental<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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