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Space Copenhagen was established in 2005 by Signe Bindslev Henriksen, born 1973, and Peter Bundgaard Rützou, born 1966. Both trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts' School of Architecture in Copenhagen, where they met. The studio operates across a deliberately wide range of scales and disciplines: product design, furniture, spatial planning, hospitality interiors, and art direction. This breadth is not accidental but reflects the founders' conviction that coherent environments emerge from control over every element, from the cup on the table to the volume of the room.
The studio describes its approach as "Poetic Modernism," a term they use to name the tension they work in - between the disciplined geometries of Scandinavian modernism and a warmer, more textured and layered quality drawn from craft, history, and material sensitivity. Rather than resolving this tension, their work tends to hold it open, resulting in objects and spaces that feel considered without being cold.
Their furniture collaborations with Gubi have produced the Stay Collection (2015) and the Wonder Collection (2019), both of which have entered the regular production canon of contemporary Scandinavian design. The Stay lounge chair and sofa, with their low, bracketing profiles and careful proportions, have become particularly widespread in hospitality and residential interiors across Scandinavia and northern Europe. For Fredericia, they designed the Swoon lounge chair, a more overtly organic piece built around a sculptural solid wood frame with generous upholstery. They have also designed for Stellar Works, Mater, and &Tradition.
On the interior design side, the studio has built a strong record in high-profile hospitality environments. Projects include the interiors of Restaurant Noma in Copenhagen (before its 2019 relocation), Restaurant Geranium - the three-Michelin-star restaurant of chef Rasmus Kofoed - Geist, and the 11 Howard Hotel in New York. The SAS Royal Hotel restoration in Copenhagen and The Stratford hotel in London are among their more recent hotel projects.
At Nordic auctions, Space Copenhagen pieces appear primarily through Bukowskis Stockholm and Stockholms Auktionsverk. The Swoon Lounge Chair for Fredericia has reached EUR 8,000 for a pair, and the Stay collection for Gubi circulates at more modest levels. All 14 auction records tracked on Auctionist involve furniture - chairs, sofas, and tables - confirming that it is the product design output rather than interiors work that finds a secondary market.