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MENU Design Copenhagen: talent and experience
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MENU Design Copenhagen: talent and experience

Menu is one of the most emblematic brands on the Scandinavian design scene. Its success story began in 1988 with the Irish coffee set designed by Bjarne Hansen, a real best-selling item.

Menu’s beginnings actually date back to 1979 when it was trading as the Danish Steel House, a firm that manufactured iron and steel products for the Danish catering industry, then directed by Simon Hansen.

Scandinavian style for real connoisseurs

From here, ten years later, came the inspiration for the name Menu. This disyllabic word is as easy to memorize as it is difficult to find on-line, without first finding thousands of lists of dishes and desserts.

Menu Scandinavian Design is a niche brand. You can find it if you appreciate its style, you will look for it if you already know it exists. It’s revered by the expert design lover but unknown to the general public. Simplicity, a select choice of colours, the aesthetic relies on voids rather than solids: these characteristics aren’t for everyone

In 2004, Menu became part of the Scandinavian Living group and the Hansen family sold shares to various noteworthy designers, as well as launching the production of contemporary accessories, something that gave lustre to the brand.

Norm Steel table clock
Stick System bookcase 3x2
JWDA Concrete table lamp
Stick System bookcase 1x4
Dancing pendant
Yeh side table

Menu per un mondo più bello

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We want to make the world a more beautiful place, less complicated, a better place to wake up to every morning.
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Menu’s philosophy is in line with its style: clean and simple, the kind of simplicity that can seem close to naivety, but which belongs, rather, to the world of enlightenment. Menu is part of the world of normalized complexity, stripped of whatever could seem superfluous or irrelevant.

In spite of the fact that making the world a better place isn’t simple at all, this Danish brand has always chosen understatement, with a straightforward and sincere design style, which can even laugh at itself and this translates into the products’ ironic asides.

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We’re obsessed by smart solutions for modern living.
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Extraordinary talent for a unique identity

You need to have a lot of talent and experience. Menu works in partnership with the most promising Scandinavian designers and it’s constantly scouting for skilled local craftsmen.

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Wherever we can, we work with local craftsmen from around the world, and even if our starting point is deeply-rooted traditional skill, we are able to produce modern design.
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The well-known designers that work with Menu include: the much-praised Scandinavian designer Pernille Vea, the established Italo-Scandinavian duo Gamfratesi (who can claim to have worked with some of the top contemporary design brands like Gubi, Cappellini, FontanaArte, Casamania), the collective Norm Architects, Grethe Meyer.

But though it works with some of the most established names in the business, Menu invests in the new generation too: emerging young talents on the international design scene, especially chosen to inject new life into the brand’s distinct identity, a partnership which Menu fosters and strengthens in an almost obsessive way.

New Norm jug 1 L
Beer/milk foamer
Afteroom chair
Fire Hurricane candle holder
Afteroom chair - Fabric
Afteroom side table

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Our A/W 17 collection paints a clear portrait of the MENU. It’s not a hand painted family portrait, unmoving and mounted on the wall in an expensive gold frame – it depicts an inquisitive, passionate, open, friendly and honest family, which is always ready to take on new challenges. The A/W 17 Ritratti collection by Menu includes the Spazio Menu too.
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Menu Space, a new concept for the store

Menu Space is Menu’s new showroom in Copenhagen and it also includes a coffee shop. Because Menu, starting from the name itself, is all about sharing.

The showroom, designed in partnership with Norm Architects, aspires to be a focal point for the creative community that gravitates towards this iconic brand. A new touch point for the end consumer, a hub where creative talents can compare and discuss views, a workspace for professionals in the field and interior design, at the disposal of those designers and associates who feel up to rethinking the layout.

So that Menu Space will always be

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A vibrant space, a creative and lively arena that will continue to inspire our neighbours, visitors, friends, clients and designers.
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Tactile large vase
Container
Shadow Play tealight
Steel grinder set
Jewellery Flacon - Low
Cage mirror
Jewellery box
Jug with copper lid 1 Lt
Wire bin - Chromed steel
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