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The restaurant was conceived in close dialogue with Copenhagen-based architectural studio Mentze Ottenstein. We have worked together for many years, on places including Sofi Bakery in Berlin and Atelier September Århusgade in Copenhagen.

The project was about transforming an existing office space into a restaurant without erasing what was already there. We wanted to work with the raw and straightforward character of the building, adding a new façade, the dining room, a large open kitchen and carefully made elements that bring warmth and character.

The contrasts became important to us. The raw and industrial against something more refined and domestic. Hard surfaces next to softer things, something precise next to something a little more accidental. It creates a balance, but also a room where the eye can keep discovering things.

I like spaces that don’t feel too finished. Places that become themselves through the people using them — through food, flowers, music, conversation and all the small things that happen over time.

Daphne was made for life and fun. And hopefully it will keep changing with us.

Photography @philip_messmann by @mentzeottenstein

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Beata ruris otia fungis Danicis
 Blissful Hours in Nature Among the Danish Fungi
At @sophienholm

10 September 2026 – 17 January 2027

Curated by Mentze Ottenstein. Photos by @david_stjernholm

Works by:

Theodor Holmskjold and Johann Adolph Neander (DK) Magali Reus (UK)
Sanya Kantarovsky (US)
Paul Thek (US) Günter Grass (DE) Shigeo Otake (JP) Ebbe Stub Wittrup (DK) Nikolai Howalt (DK) Oliver Bak (DK) Peter Ilsted (DK) Vibeke Glarbo (DK) Thorvald Bindesbøll (DK) Natsuko Uchino (JP/FR) taken in Sophienholm by @mentzeottenstein

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Daphne in The New York Times

We’ve only just begun.

Thank you Gisela Williams for the words, Philip Messmann for the photographs, and everyone at Daphne for making the restaurant what it is.

Designed by @mentzeottenstein by @mentzeottenstein

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Today at 5pm is the inauguration of our new permanent installation at Søndermarken Krematorium’s Room of Departure.

Five pre-modern pieces of furniture from the 1700s to early 1900s have been cast in bronze.

A direct cast process where a mould was created around the furniture, which was then fired in a kiln, leaving only the cavities of the original pieces behind, for the molten bronze to be poured into.

The pieces are placed in dialogue with the mural by Georg Jacobsen from the 1930s.

The project was commissioned by Ny Carlsbergfondet who also funded the conservation of the mural by The National Museum of Denmark.

Everyone is welcome at the unveiling today.

Supported and commissioned by @nycarlsbergfondet

Photos by @david_stjernholm by @mentzeottenstein

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17 days ago

Beata ruris otia fungis Danicis
 Happy hours spent in the countryside studying Danish mushrooms

10 September – 17 January

Curated by Mentze Ottenstein

Works by:

Theodor Holmskjold and Johann Adolph Neander (DK) Magali Reus (UK)
Sanya Kantarovsky (US)
Paul Thek (US) Günter Grass (DE) Shigeo Otake (JP) Ebbe Stub Wittrup (DK) Nicolai Howalt (DK) Oliver Bak (DK) Peter Ilsted (DK) Vibeke Glarbo (DK) Thorvald Bindesbøll (DK) Natsuko Uchino (JP/FR) by @mentzeottenstein

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For this year’s 3 Days of Design we have collaborated with Tekla once again, exploring the craft traditions of Sweden and Scandinavia.

The cabin beds are our interpretation of a traditional Scandinavian alcove bed, with the woodwork of the cabinet doors taking patterns from the quilts on display – turning the bed into a piece of architecture.

Discover the exhibition at Charlottenborg, open 10-12 June from 10am-6pm.

Photography by @ludovicbalay taken in Kunsthal Charlottenborg by @mentzeottenstein

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4 months ago

Renew. Realign. Reimagine. ⁠
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In Volume XIII, architects Mathias Mentze and Alexander Ottenstein from @mentzeottenstein reflect on their rewilding of Dinesen's 19th-century thatched-roof farmhouse in Southern Jutland, which is now used as a guesthouse for collaborators by the century-old Danish wood trader.⁠
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⁠Read the story in our past issue, Ark Journal Vol. XIII.⁠
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Words by⁠ @alisalarsen⁠
Photography by @claustroelsgaard by @mentzeottenstein

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For Dinesen, the iconic Danish hardwood flooring company, we did this restoration and redesign of their Country Home in Vraa in Southern Denmark by @mentzeottenstein

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We collaborated with @teklafabrics for this 3 Days of Design exhibition at Charlottenborg. Launching their new broderie anglaise collection, we designed beds in walnut and the spatial concept to go along with it. Go visit at Charlottenborg until Friday 20th of June.

Captured by @ludovicbalay by @mentzeottenstein

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a year ago

The Tsuba Table at Designmuseum Danmark by @mentzeottenstein

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Mentze Ottenstein
Mathias Mentze @mathiasmentze and Alexander V. Ottenstein @alxvo by @mentzeottenstein

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