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The design team lowered the cellar floor by a foot and extended a rear-facade addition toward the lake. “I am all for an architecture for its time—this house had a strong personality,” Jens says. “The overscale windows create a tension, a dialogue . . . it’s a new element, but one that celebrates the original idea.”
Jens Martin Skibsted salvaged an 1890s house just outside of Copenhagen, reworking it with architect Jürgen Mayer H. The structure is a retreat for Jens, his wife, Naomi, and their children. The dining table was designed by him to accommodate 18; the legs were produced by HAY, as were the Shanghay molded plywood chairs. “The house has so many things,” explains Jens. “Every corner has a story.”
The living room on the ground level features facing Brick sofas by KiBiSi, a design firm Jens cofounded along with Bjarke Ingels and Lars Holme Larsen in 2009; the cushions, covered in Kvadrat fabric, are tied together and studded with a molded fiber-concrete button. An Arco lamp by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni for Flos extends over an On the Rocks sofa by Francesco Binfaré for Edra.