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Design Your Dream Home – Denmark Edition
Viktoria Ceramic Studio Shop.
Find creative flow at Viktoria Ceramic Studio’s stunning hidden shop and atelier Located just 400 metres from Copenhagen Central Station, Viktoria Ceramic Studio is right in the Scandinavian capital’s sweet spot – or ‘smørhul’, as they say there.
the shop themselves, they always have time to tell it.
By Lena Hunter
Five creative universes, one secret basement
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Despite the location, the ceramic shop, workshop and school is by no means obvious to the average passer-by. The sculpture-adorned doorway, hidden in a cobbled backyard, requires a little help from Google Maps.
shopping street – which could be in any major city. But when they come to this back alley, past the rabble of Danish bikes, down into this basement workshop, they feel they’ve found what they were hoping for.”
“Tourists love it,” says Signe Bailey, one of five resident artists at Viktoria Ceramic Studio. “They think they’re coming to Denmark to see something authentic, and they end up on Strøget – the main
The 400-square-metre atelier sells everything from quality cupboard handicrafts to exclusive clay art and jewellery. Each piece is handmade on-site, and each has a story – and, as the artists run
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February 2022
The ceramicists that make up the Viktoria collective are Pia Lund, Signe Bailey, Mark Lauberg, Helle Hansen and, under the moniker Clib Klap, Claire Maria Lehmann and Iben Harboe. Downstairs from the shop, the five workshops are separated by high dividers offering just enough privacy for the spaces to resemble mini creative universes. Muddles of shelves hold casts, half-finished clay ornaments and polished displays
