So here I am — 3 Days of Design, Copenhagen. More or less the Milan Design Week of the North now.
Honestly, I've wanted to come for the longest time. But here's the thing — I'm a serious cat mom, monster parents type. I never want to leave my babies behind. Plus we always have a few interior projects on our hands, so it's never an easy week to step away from. Every year I'd see people posting from Copenhagen and I'd be like, next year. Next year. And then next year never comes.
This year, the push was actually our EU workshop — we had some paperwork to sort out. So I thought, okay, while we're flying out anyway, I might as well swing through Copenhagen. One bird kill three stones, you know? We're a small team operating across Hong Kong, Sweden, and Latvia, so any trip out has to do more than one job.
3DD, as we call it — every brand, every catalogue, right there in front of you. It's a lot. And honestly? I didn't come to source more lamps, or to grab another Togo sofa. You see those all over the internet anyway. For me, the whole point is the people — kind of funny coming from an introvert. Talking to the people behind the brand. That's the part you can't get from a catalogue.
A few really stuck with me.
Swedese. I actually met them for the first time four years ago. This round, I sat down with the team that does their refabricating work — they take old pieces back, restore them (probably a Lamino chair someone's family has owned for generations), and send them back to keep passing on. It really clicked for me, because we kind of do the same thing. Our Extentable collection, our bespoke pieces. Same idea really, we just call it differently.
Lundhs. A Norwegian brand from Larvik working with natural stones from their own quarries — larvikite specifically, only quarried in southern Norway. We talked a lot about bringing those into Hong Kong. Because honestly? I'm a bit tired of using Corian. I get it — people are scared of staining. But larvikite is naturally quartz-free, no sealing needed — no special treatment, just the stone. And I was like, yes. I'm sold.
Reform. A Danish kitchen brand with a beautiful collection. This is the kind of European kitchen you see in showrooms for the price of a small car. And the funny thing is, in our own workshop, Janis is already building this for our European clients. We just haven't shown it in Hong Kong yet. So that's something I really want to bring back.
That's what this trip gave me. Not a shopping list. More like a way of thinking about how all of this lands back home — how it becomes more local, more useful, more part of how people actually live.
I'll be a bit sarcastic here — but owning a designer piece you know nothing about is kind of like being into coffee for the fashion of it. Not for enjoying a good cup to start your morning. Design isn't a fashion thing. It's a daily thing. It's what you sit on, what you cook on, what you walk on, every single day.
That's why I came. And that's what I'm taking home.
— Trazi
P.S. If you'd rather watch than read — I filmed a reel walking through the trip. Watch it here →
