Top 10 Design Destinations in Copenhagen That You Must Know Today – If you are a design professional or a design lover and are also planning to travel to Copenhagen in the next days, then you cannot miss this top 10 design destinations that will surely make your trip complete and memorable. In case you’re not planning that, let me tell you that you definitely need to consider this city as one of the most powerful design centers. So, read through the article and start packing!

⇒ Subscribe to our Newsletter and be up-to-date with CovetED Magazine ⇐

With assignments under architects Jean Nouvel and Peter Marino, David Thulstrup has lived in New York and Paris—but since 2009, Copenhagen is the city he once again calls home. Since opening Studio David Thulstrup, Danish designer and architect Thulstrup has made his own indelible mark on the Danish capital, with high-profile projects including the Vipp Loft Hotel — a one-room hotel sleeping four on top of a printing factory. Most recently, he completed the interiors for Noma after the world-famous experimental restaurant moved to a new lakefront location. Thulstrup reveals his favorite destinations in Denmark’s most populous city, from an open-air restaurant perfect for a quick dip in the sea to a gallery that explores the liminal space between design and art.

Baby Baby Bar

On a prime waterfront spot in Copenhagen’s hippest area, the industrial district of Refshaleøen, this open-air bar is perfect for relaxing to music or sliding in for a dip on warm summer days.

Etage Projects

This gallery specializes in a cross-aesthetic method, meaning it explores the liminal space between art and design, as well as abstraction and function, in its journey to extend and enrich the field of interdisciplinary, collective culture.

Louisiana Museum

Refreshing and innovative contemporary art—as well as modernist classics—take pride of place at the Louisiana Museum, located on the shore of the Øresund strait in Humlebæk, 25 miles north of Copenhagen.

Danskmadeforrooms

In the large, bright rooms of this design and interior object shop located in the vibrant Vesterbro district, you’ll find great items for the home.

Botanisk Have Statens Naturhistoriske Museum, Københavns Universitet (Botanical Garden Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen)

One of the city’s most peaceful spots (with a recently opened butterfly house!), Copenhagen’s botanical garden has a high-tech air-conditioned system that can recreate environments suitable for Arctic and continental plants. Don’t miss the cast-iron spiral stairs leading to the top of the 19th-century Palm House.

Ved Stranden 10

At this iconic wine bar, located in an eye-catching room sporting a glass-tiled ceiling, guests can sip wine with picturesque canal views.

Thorvaldssen Museum

On the small island of Slotsholmen in Copenhagen’s harbor, this museum’s grand architectural design is enhanced by vividly painted walls. It houses a comprehensive collection of Danish artist Bertel Thorvaldsen’s (1770-1844) works in marble as well as plaster.

Restaurant Barr

Find top-notch Nordic cuisine and cozy woodworking in this Michelin-starred restaurant and beer bar, which belongs to the Noma family of restaurants and opened last year in Noma’s previous home, a waterfront warehouse.

Kunsthal Charlottenborg

In the heart of Copenhagen, within a historical extension to the Charlottenborg Palace, Kunsthal Charlottenborg offers one of the most striking exhibition spaces for contemporary art. Its ambitious exhibition program includes established as well as rising talents, from Denmark and abroad.

Torvehallerne

Find two glass-covered markets with over 60 stands selling all kinds of food, drinks, spices, and flowers, where you can also sit and have a quick bite to eat.