I’m ending the week with a look at the new-season collection from another of my favourite Danish interior-design brands: Menu. As always, it’s packed with elegant, minimalist pieces that are the perfect balance of form and function, and as always I’m already dreaming about adding a few of them to my own home!
Perhaps most notable is the gently curved ‘Tearoom’ seating series, which consists of a sofa, a lounge chair and a club chair. It’s the work of Stockholm-based Scottish designer Nick Ross, whose inspiration came from Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s ‘Willow’ chair, created for the Willow Tearooms in Glasgow in 1904. It’s currently available in a softly textured beige fabric known as ‘Savannah’ or a striking burnt-orange velvet.
There are also three new variants of Norm Architects ‘Harbour’ chair, first released last year: a dining chair, a bar chair and a swivel chair. All have the same contoured, cradling shape of the original but are designed to fit easily into the compact spaces beneath tables and bar counters. And the popular ‘Stick’ shelving system has been launched in a new dark-wood variant, which has an air of the 1970s about it and reflects the current shift towards earthy, natural colourways.
New lighting comes in the form of the simple yet striking ‘Cast’ wall sconce – the first collaboration between Menu and Canadian design duo Tim Chung and Jordan Murphy – and Norm Architects’ ‘Bank’ pendant, which was inspired by a vintage light spotted on a stroll through Manhattan’s financial district. I particularly love the latter’s semi-circular shape and the choice between opal or black smoked glass, and it looks stunning on its own or hung in rows above a table.
Accessories-wise, my favourite new piece is the stilted ‘Échasse’ hurricane lantern, designed by Theresa Rand. It’s a great addition to the existing ‘Échasse’ vase and bowl range, and comes in smoked glass with brass legs or opal glass with black legs.
Finally, the range of sleek black bathroom accessories created by Norm Architects has been extended with a soap holder, a towel rail and a toilet-roll holder. Their clean lines work brilliantly with the terrazzo bathroom used as the setting for the press images; I can also see them fitting well into grey marble and tiled schemes.
Head over to Menu’s website to browse the full collection and find a list of stockists around the world.
All photography via Menu
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