Louise Campbell is a Danish furniture and lighting designer with an English instinct for interior design. She is undoubtedly one of the leading protagonists in a new avant-garde generation of designers who are evolving the grand tradition of Scandinavian Modernism not only with respect but with new-found self-confidence as well. Between the poles of traditional minimalism and a far more playful approach that exhibits great courage in its willingness to experiment with forms and materials, she creates furniture and luminaires that owe their appeal just as much to their clear forms as to their emotional aesthetics. Louise Campbell’s works are anything but austere – instead, for all the stringency of their forms, their warmth and the playful, sometimes even humorous way she reinterprets everyday objects exudes an irresistible fascination.

In Louise Campbell’s hands, “Das Haus” is set to become a theatre stage
A totally new interpretation of “Das Haus” can be expected from the Danish designer. It is no coincidence that she mainly made a name for herself with lamps that are as classic as they are poetic. Today she is regarded as a specialist for using light to stage spaces. On the other hand, her furniture and objects always tell a story too, so that the architecture and interior design of “Das Haus” will probably have a strong narrative character as well. But one thing is certain: the “house” created in the midst of Pure Village at the imm cologne 2014 looks set to become a fascinating stage for Louise Campbell’s dream of home living, somewhere between Alice’s Wonderland, Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility”, the music of The Cure and the architecture of tomorrow.
“I want to try and create a very special, cosmopolitan, gentle voice,” says Louise Campbell in an almost mysterious announcement of her intentions. “Something that every ideal home has, without which the constant, gentle dialogue between the helpful house and its greedy occupants wouldn’t be possible.” It will be interesting to see what story she is going to tell us. [ text by IMM Cologne]

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