Nordic Warmth

Jewellery designer Charlotte Lynggaard’s Copenhagen home reflects every bit of a refined Scandinavian life.

- Herve Dewintre

We were at a cottage of pure Gustavian style, romantic to a fault, a construction of clear lines and rough, strong materials, contrasted with soft and bright colours. On one side, there were shining tin coloured surfaces of the Straits of Øresund, where silver grey clouds merge into the waves. On the other, dense vegetation, just like dark green velvet covered an enormous garden. Sandwiched between the two, was a wooden cabin. It is a child’s room, rather a teenager’s... an adolescent, who loves to paint and writes poetry, who hasn’t yet given up her stuffed animals. Charlotte Lynggaard’s family home, to which she invited us, was without a doubt spectacular. Rebellion is not a characteristic of the Lynggaard family, who, for the last 50 years, has ruled over the world of Scandinavian jewellery, apart from being the official jewellers of the court of Denmark. Charlotte is Ole Lynggaard’s daughter, who founded his jewellery company in 1963.

INFLUENCE OF HAPPINESS