Sleek & Minimal Copenhagen Penthouse Contemporist

Sleek & Minimal Copenhagen Penthouse
Contemporist

This penthouse apartment's gleaming white interior is the result of a gut-rehab envisioned by NORM Architects. The design involved pouring a white resin floor, creating full height doors, integrating tons of built-in (and hidden) storage and keeping door and cabinet hardware hidden — all done in an effort to reduce visual clutter and create a single unified space where the furnishings would be the focal point...

It's interesting to see how such a stark shell of a space can really change with furniture alone — image this space with a large leather sectional or a crazy and colorful Moroso design — it completely changes the space!

You can see even more of this nearly seamless space by
NORM Architects on Contemporist: Copenhagen Penthouse II by NORM Architects.

Comments (11)

I can't imagine anyone who could actually live like this -
- it's so impersonal, sterile and unwelcoming.

posted by bepsf on June 30th 2009 at 6:23pm
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Very simple and elegant with classic designer pieces- I like!

posted by Petra- Designfragment on June 30th 2009 at 6:29pm
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Wow, this place is amazing. Really beautiful.

posted by BrooklynRob on June 30th 2009 at 7:13pm
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Wow.... I would live like that if I could afford it... stunning!

posted by modern on long island on June 30th 2009 at 7:54pm
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I feel like it is very....hmm... cold.
Almost as if everything has been staged.
The only personal touch I am able to see are the books.
That being said .....it is just my opinion ...and that's what makes this wonderful design world so diverse...I guess
I actually admire people that can live like this..... ZERO CLUTTER... I wish I were that type.

posted by lilipixi on June 30th 2009 at 8:02pm
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"Almost as if everything has been staged" ??? Well, of course everything has been staged in order to be photographed and published. That's the norm, isn't it?

I imagine some personal clutter and WOW - beautiful place. I'd also love to live in Copenhagen, at least in the summer months.

posted by midmodfan on July 1st 2009 at 9:08am
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BBRRRRRR... I just caught a chill.

posted by swizz on July 1st 2009 at 10:33am
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very sterile. no books, no art - it feels like a rental

posted by Anusha73 on July 1st 2009 at 11:17am
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The point of this post is the floor and the doors, not the decor.
We can all name the chairs and the lights, they are nothing new.

posted by kiljoywashere on July 1st 2009 at 2:05pm
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I love minimalism but I find this presentation ridiculously sterile and cliched. They might as well have digitally generated the whole thing and left it at that.

posted by RichardinLA on July 1st 2009 at 3:42pm
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s dat a bodybag under the bed?

posted by cookiemonsta on July 1st 2009 at 8:10pm
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