Norm

Drawing on 15 years of international experience within residential, hospitality, industrial design and creative direction, Norm Architects works to re-sensualize the built environment.

Founded in 2008, Norm Architects is a Copenhagen-based practice working with design to enrich the human experience. As multidisciplinary architects and designers, we consider our work as a facilitation of well-being, as a distillation of aesthetics that resonate with the unique person and place, and as a system that supports universal human needs.

Each project – be it architecture, interiors or products – exemplifies minimalism infused with a larger aim to re-sensualize the built environment through haptic designs that embrace mind and body. As we work, our goal is always to find the essence of the design no matter its scale or location to create buildings, spaces and objects that connect with the innate human desire for belonging, autonomy and identity. Our expertise lies in recognizing the moment when there is nothing more to add or take away; when function meets beauty and the work feels as good as it looks.


People

Katrine Goldstein

Managing Director & Partner

Katrine is responsible for tying together the firm’s many disciplines into one cohesive approach. As managing director, Katrine works across platforms and geographical borders to ensure that projects are developed and delivered at their full potential. With a background at renowned branding and communication agencies in London and Copenhagen, Katrine’s previous work with international corporations has instilled in her a deep intuition into the nature of building client relationships and collaborations. At Norm Architects, she leverages her experience and skills to create tailor-made client experiences and project management processes.
kg@normcph.com

Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen

Architect MAA & Partner

Jonas is one of the founding partners at Norm Architects with over a decade of experience as an architect, designer, art director and photographer. Jonas shares his passion for phenomenology—the philosophical study of human experience—and striking spaces, objects and images with clients that range from established design brands to international magazines and private homeowners. Trained at both The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Copenhagen Business School, Jonas mixes business-oriented and strategic thinking with the conceptual thoughts and visions that bring creative projects to life. ‘I have a strong vocation for creating thoughtful projects that make a difference and stand out in an understated, refined manner,’ he says of his work, which has won awards including the Red Dot, IF Design Award, Design Plus Award and Good Design Award.
jbp@normcph.com

Kasper Rønn Von Lotzbeck

Architect MAA, Designer & Partner

Kasper founded Norm Architects together with Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen in 2008. Combining a strong intuition for shapes and details with extensive technical insight, Kasper leads Norm Architects’ furniture and product design projects, such as those for Danish design brands Menu and &tradition. Trained at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and, later, in the studio of industrial designer Ole Palsby, Kasper’s products and furniture pieces are an integral part of the firm’s design process and portfolio. “When we succeed in building on the past while looking forward,” he says of his motivation; “we truly feel like we’ve arrived.”
kr@normcph.com

Frederik Alexander Werner

Designer & Partner

Trained at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Frederik’s focus is on furniture and product design, working with a large range of our domestic and foreign clients. With a functional and minimalist approach, he creates coherent collections as well as unique exhibition pieces in close collaboration with our clients – always striving to design characteristic and iconic products. Frederik has both domestic and foreign experience, working in Japan and doing more than 2 years of consultant work for Georg Jensen.
fw@normcph.com

Peter Eland

Architect MAA & Partner

Before founding his own studio, Peter was the Creative Director at Wagas Group and worked at Neri & Hu for half a decade prior to that. In his years of experience in China, he has been responsible for building and designing many restaurants, cafés, hotels and private residents including the Baker & Spice on Anfulu, the Mi Thai restaurant, which was mentioned in the China Michelin Star guide, as well as Le Meridian hotel in Zhengzhou.
pe@normcph.com

Sofie Thorning

Architect MAA & Partner

Trained as an architect Sofie worked abroad for 7 years, gathering a wide range of international experience in retail, office, residential, restaurant and hospitality design. Prior to joining Norm she worked at Neri & Hu for 3 years and continued on to work independently, in charge of the design and execution of several restaurants and residential projects. At Norm, Sofie is lead architect and responsible of bringing projects from concept design to completion.
st@normcph.com

Nicolaj Friis Nøddesbo

Senior Designer

As part of the design team at Norm Architects, Nicolaj works with furniture and product design. With an urge to draw furniture pieces that are not only aesthetically beautiful, but also functional and timeless, Nicolaj greatly considers the lifespan of the form language and durability of the materials used, while also favoring sustainable production methods. Trained at the Aarhus School of Architecture, he has developed his core values within architecture and design, and has later applied these in his work for multiple companies and design firms in Copenhagen. As a furniture designer with an architectural background he is able to see the bigger picture and create furniture pieces as everyday objects rather than statement pieces. At Norm Architects he strives to create memorable yet simple, functional and tactile design that last.
nn@normcph.com

Sofie Bak

Architect

Trained at the Aarhus School of Architecture, Sofie’s philosophy is to create iconic, simple and lasting design within the fields of architecture and interiors, with an intense focus on the crafted detail. Through her work, she looks for spaces that move us beyond the ordinary, creating sensuous and generous architecture that builds on the narrative the context already tells. Sofie searches for the balance between the complex and the simple, where honesty and sensitivity are illuminated through strong concepts, timeless aesthetics and natural materials.
sbj@normcph.com

Victor Ohn-Breumlund

Architect

With a degree from the Aarhus School of Architecture, Victor works with an awareness of details and simple elegance. Due to his background in transformation architecture, he works with a dialogue between old and new – creating timeless aesthetics. He believes that quality, beauty, and good craftsmanship all help to ensure our future environment and buildings.
vob@normcph.com

 

Robert Antonio Graf

Architect

Trained at the Vienna University of Technology in Austria, Robert follows an efficient and organized approach to his work. Prior to joining Norm, he worked in several offices, including Steinkogler Aigner Architects, specializing in residential architecture and wooden construction. With his multinational background, he finds great inspiration from heritage and culture and strives to always have a holistic and interdisciplinary way of working.
rg@normcph.com

Lucille Gairin

Senior Architect

With a master’s degree from Paris La Villette Architecture School & Rome, Lucille has an international background that is both technical and creative. Having worked in several offices abroad, she is not only confident in working from concept to site follow up, but she also has a great understanding of how to make a project feel rooted in its local surroundings as she cherishes to work in and around different cultural environments. With a strong sense of details, Lucille plays with contrasts of tactility and finishes to create a balanced materiality in every project, creating a comfortable human experience.
lg@normcph.com

Alice Phillips

Senior Architect

With a degree from the Manchester School of Architecture, Alice works with an awareness of details and the essential interplay between all the elements that make up architecture. Having extensive experience with hospitality design, residential interiors as well as bespoke furniture design, she is confident with design and project management from concept through to on-site construction and delivery.
ap@normcph.com

Manuela Guidarini

Senior Architect

With a master’s degree from Ferrara School of Architecture in Italy, Manuela places great importance on incorporating heritage and cultural significance into her work. Her approach combines a deep understanding of local context with a minimalist aesthetic, recognising the modern-day need for peaceful environments. This combination of values allows her to create spaces that harmoniously blend sense of place, comfort and timeless relevance. With a remarkable international portfolio, Manuela has worked at firms such as Foster + Partners and David Collins Studio in London. These experiences allowed her to collaborate on high-profile projects, gaining exposure to diverse architectural styles. With extensive experience in the hospitality and retail business, she oversees projects from concept to completion.
mg@normcph.com

Charles Dunn

Architect

Trained at the Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow, Charles has experience working in both the UK and Europe. With a concern for human experience as well as the poetic potential of space, he brings a sensibility beyond the solely aesthetic and strives to translate this awareness into rigorous and meaningfully conceived architecture. Drawing upon each project’s distinct context and character, he enjoys articulating this in a suitably considered manner, finding balance between the conceptual expression and functional realisation of each project.
cd@normcph.com

Justin Mickow

Architect

Trained as an Architect at the Mies van der Rohe School, Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Justin soon used his education of detailing to focus on the interior of buildings. Through years of experience working from concept to construction within restaurant, retail, office and residential projects, he found a passion for being on site and working with builders to ensure the overall design is not compromised. Relocating to Copenhagen after working 6 years in Shanghai China, Justin soon co-founded ‘Trace’ with an understanding of culture and heritage from North America, Europe and Asia. With a focus on quality, materials and details, he has worked on a range of projects from small and intimate to large and public. Searching for links and connections to help influence and inspire his own designs, alongside freelancing for other design studios.
jm@normcph.com

Hedda Klar

Interior Designer

With a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Interior Architecture & Design from Florence, Italy, Hedda values an attentiveness to heritage and cultural context in her work. With a philosophy based on openness towards the human experience of space and a sensibility for the haptic experience of materials and clean details she works together with the team of Norm to shape thoughtful projects with a timeless aesthetic in the fields of architecture and interiors.
hk@normcph.com

Karl Tranberg Knudsen

Designer & Photographer

With a master’s degree in furniture and product design at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Karl has experience in combining technical, aesthetic and rhetoric skills in design processes and creative communication. At Norm Architects he uses these skills in design projects, photography and promoting international company presence.
ktk@normcph.com

Csilla Michelsen-Kaman

Finance & Administration

With an Economic Masters degree specialised in Corporate Finances, Csilla is responsible for the Finance and Administration department of Norm Architects, with a passion to solve problems and create structure behind all the creative world at Norm. She leverages her experience from international corporations to ensure that the company has the needed systems and financial transparency to provide an amazing customer experience. Csilla’s great attention to detail enables smooth cash-flow, tax submissions and salaries.
finance@normcph.com

Emma Jo Ejskjær

Head of PR & Social Media

With a Bachelor’s degree in Communications from the Danish School of Media and Journalism, Emma Jo is used to working close to practice and targeted at a world in change. Currently studying Visual Culture at the University of Copenhagen, she has a strong understanding of combining aesthetic and rhetorical skills in creative communication across platforms and media, while her experience from renowned interior magazines has taught her the importance of communicating with a coherent, clear, and characteristic tone of voice.
ejs@normcph.com

Sandie Lykke Nolsøe

Photographer & SoMe Coordinator

Sandie is our in-house photographer as well as SoMe coordinator, working on the company’s visual communication. With a bachelor’s degree in Photographic Communication from the Danish School of Media and Journalism, she has experience in content planning, brand communications, photography and videography. At Norm Architects, Sandie is responsible for assisting online and printed publications, maintaining company platforms, outlets and general presence, while also managing our Social Media channels.
slh@normcph.com


Interns


Freelancers

Signe Hytte

Designer

Leading her own studio and formerly working as Head of Design for Danish furniture brand &tradition, Signe Hytte combines an artistic outlook and commercial understanding with designs that come alive through visual storytelling. She has an overall conceptual understanding, as well as knowledge of curating collections, building concepts and designing products. Trained within the fields of furniture and interior design, Signe has produced designs as well as concepts for Danish brands, with simplicity in focus and an eye for detail.
shy@normcph.com

Zihan Zhao

Architect

Educated in China and Finland and trained as an architect, Zihan has extensive knowledge in the sociological differences across cultures, and is passionate in exploring the relationship between context and design. Placing the experience and humanization of space at the center of architectural practice, she strives to create unfolding special narratives that not only stands the test of time, but connects to us as human beings.


Collaborators

CHRISTIAN M. ANDERSEN

Christian Møller Andersen

Christian Møller Andersen is a creative director, designer, and photographer based in Copenhagen. Working within the realms of design and fashion, his unique understanding of design, visual culture, and fashion has, over the years, been a valued resource for international clients and collaborators alike, in developing, producing, and executing original concepts, as well as growing their visual communication and strengthening their artistic output.


Clients

Dinesen
www.dinesen.com

Origin
www.origin-made.com

The Mindcraft Project
www.mindcraftproject.com

Ishinomaki Laboratory
www.ishinomaki-lab.org

Cabinetmakers’ Autumn Exhibition
www.se-design.dk

Furnishing Utopia
www.furnishing-utopia.com

L. Ercolani
www.lercolani.com

ALIUM
www.aliumcph.com

Fogia
www.fogia.se

OCE
www.oce.com

Ariake
www.ariakecollection.com

Labofa
www.labofa.com

Dline
www.dline.com

Sticks ‘n’ Sushi
www.sushi.dk

Copenhagen Bike Company
www.copenhagenbikecompany.com

Menu
www.menu.as

Karimoku
www.karimoku.com

Inbani
www.inbani.com

NÆRVÆR
www.naervaer.dk

KaDeWe Group – Signa
www.signa.at/en/retail/the-kadewe-group/

Sv. Michelsen
www.svmichelsen.dk

&Tradition
www.andtradition.com

Design Within Reach
www.dwr.com

Kinfolk Magazine
www.kinfolk.com

Wallpaper Magazine
www.wallpaper.com

Rainmaking
www.rainmaking.io

Ex.t
www.ex-t.com

Paper Collective
www.paper-collective.com

Cofoco
www.cofoco.dk

The Office Group
www.theofficegroup.co.uk

Turn
www.turn-handles.com

HNI Group
www.hniinternational.com

DUX
www.dux.se

Københavns Kommune
www.kk.dk

Rum Magazine
www.ruminternational.com

Von Lotzbeck Copenhagen

Zilenzio
www.zilenzio.com

Sørensen Leather
www.sorensenleather.com

Reform
www.reformcph.com

Studio MK-27

Dwell Magazine
www.dwell.com

Elle Decoration UK
www.elledecoration.co.uk

Yachtbau
www.msyachtbau.com

Zilenzio
www.zilenzio.com

Lagom
lagombath.com

håndværk
www.handvaerk.com

Bang & Olufsen
www.bang-olufsen.com


Awards

prix versailles – world’s most beautiful restaurant exteriors, listed
2023

kyoto global design awards nomination – best 100
2023, jp

lux life magazine leading designer awards – best wellbeing focused architecture firm
2023, uk

nautical tourism awards – best minimalistic boat architecture firm, y7 yachtbau
2022, uk

world prix versailles – exterior europe (restaurant category), restaurant äng
2022, fr

new york design awards – gold international hospitality, restaurant äng
2022, us

danish design awards nomination – designer of the year
2022, dk

wallpaper* awards – best flashback, cask collection
2022, us

metropolisLikes NYCxDesign – top 12 product picks, cask collection
2021, us

bdny product design competition – seating category, cask collection
2021, us

architecture masterprize – interior design firm of the year
2021, us

dwell design awards – furniture category nomination, koku tables
2021, us

architizer a+ awards – residential seating, reprise chair,
2021, us

wallpaper design awards – best curves, hashira pendant cluster
2021, uk

archiproducts design awards – bathroom
2020, it

danish design awards nomination – designer of the year
2020, dk

danish design awards nomination – furniture of the year, anna headboard
2020, dk

danish design awards nomination – lamp of the year, hashira collection
2020, dk

dezeen awards shortlisted – interior design studio of the year
2020, uk

dezeen awards shortlisted – large workspace interior, the audo
2020, uk

dezeen awards longlisted – apartment interior, kinuta terrace with keiji ashizawa
2020, uk

dezeen awards  longlisted – designer of the year
2020, uk

wallpaper design awards – best cabin
2020, uk

wallpaper design awards – best domestic design
2020, uk

archilovers – best project
2019, it

world architects festival – completed buildings, villa
2019,  nl

ahead awards – new concept of the year
2019, uk

international property awards – five star award for office interior
2019, dk

design awards – spatial designer of the year
2019, dk

nominated design awards – designer of the year
2019, dk

nominated design awards – spatial design
2019, dk

waf – completed buildings – villa
2019, uk

az awards – design – furniture systems and collections award
2019, us

HiP award for workplace – high-back seating,
2018, us

ad award nomination – interior design of the year
2018, de

jury at if design award,
2018, germany

design awards nomination – spatial designer of the year
2018, dk

edida – elle decoration international design awards
2017, it

archiproducts design award,
2017

lyngby-taarbaek’s architectural award,
2017, dk

design awards nomination – product design of the year
2017, dk

design awards nomination – spatial design of the year
2017, dk

design awards – designer of the year
2016, dk

creative circle
2016

wallpaper architect’s directory
2016

architizer a+ award,
2016, us

edida nomination – elle deco international design awards
2016, it

best on archilovers, nærvær and reydon grove farm
2017, it

design awards nomination, designer of the year
2015, dk

architizer a+ award,
2015, nyc

good design award,
2015, chicago

design awards, designer of the year
2014, dk

travel and leisure design award – best restaurant interior in the world
2014, us

rbda – best restaurant interior in the world
2013, uk

rbda, best european restaurant,
2013, uk

jury at if design award
2013, de

jury at if design award
2012, de

good design award
2012, us

cha design award
2012, uk

if design award,
2012, de

formland design awards nomination
2012, dk

bo bedre nomination – designer of the year
2011, dk

formland design award nomination
2011, dk

design plus award
2010, de

bo bedre nomination – design of the year
2009, dk

red dot award
2009, de



Web design & graphic design :
Aurélien Stein
www.astein.fr

Logotype :
Atelier CPH
www.ateliercph.dk