I Expected to Love My First 3Days of Design in Copenhagen. But I Could Never Have Anticipated What Would Make It So Great.

If you can believe it, this was my first year attending 3DaysofDesign in Copenhagen, and I went to the fair, now in its 10th year, armed with absurdly high expectations. I knew that just existing in Copenhagen in early June — using Lime bikes to cycle around, drinking natural wine, eating smørrebrød — would set a good baseline for fun. But after my experience at Salone, which I wrote about here, I felt increasingly desperate for Copenhagen to mean something. I told people I was going because, as a chronicler of design fair culture, I felt compelled to see one that had become such a word-of-mouth success. But on a personal level, it’s like I needed Copenhagen to prove to me that design fairs were still worth attending. As hesitant as I am to say this — lest everyone frantically start planning their show next year in Denmark, which is simply not the right move for everyone — Copenhagen actually exceeded my expectations.
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An Emerald Green Sushi Counter and One-Off Parrot Wallpaper Turn This Tiny Bar Into a Jewel Box

The main attraction, and taking up the most real estate at Bar Miller, a 250-square-foot, eight-seater sushi restaurant designed by Brooklyn's Polonsky & Friends, is the omakase bar made from Avocatus Quartzite in deep green with swirls of white and the one-off wallpaper running parallel to the bar, which features a painting of an eastern rosella bird by illustrator Hollie M Kelley in Australia — the home of these colorful parrots.
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