The Studio Behind Solene Atelier

A small Copenhagen practice built on the belief that a room should ask nothing of you.

Solene Atelier was founded in 2014 in a former bookbinder's workshop off Nyhavn, with a single conviction: that calm is designed, not decorated.

We work slowly and take on few projects at a time. Each begins with listening — to how a family moves through a morning, how a hotel wants its guests to arrive, how light crosses a floor in February. From that, we build interiors of natural material, quiet colour, and precise proportion, meant to hold up for decades rather than seasons.

The studio remains deliberately small: four people, one atelier, and a network of Danish makers, joiners, and stone workshops we have collaborated with for years. Most of our work comes by referral, and most of our clients stay with us from one home to the next.

• 2025 Nordic Interior Award Residential shortlist — Nyhavn Residence
• 2024 Bo Bedre Design Awards Interior of the Year, nominee
• 2023 Frame Awards Hospitality shortlist — Restaurant Mølle
• 2023 RUM Magazine Featured in “Studios to Watch”