Hotels

In 2019 restaurant group Copenhagen Food Collective (Cofoco) sought to launch a design-savvy eco hotel in the buzzing Vesterbro neighbourhood. Today this four-star boutique hotel’s 88 rooms feature custom furniture and woodwork made by Danish artisans. Downstairs, there’s an inviting café that serves fresh pastries and organic coffee and a leafy courtyard where guests can tuck in to light meals or pick from an organic wine and cocktail list. “The property is best described as a small Parisian-style hotel with a Copenhagen sense of space and time,” Cofoco CEO Christian Lytje tells Monocle. The hotel has stayed true to the group’s sustainable message – all the electricity is generated from green sources and Cofoco’s own solar field.

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Joachim Kornbeck Engell-Hansen, brand and design director of furniture brand Audo Copenhagen, opened a hotel in the company’s HQ with the aim of fostering a sense of community around great design. The resulting 10-key property is a celebration of everything that the brand values: rich and tactile design that gives life to welcoming interiors. Housed in a 20th-century building in the recently redeveloped Nordhavn area, all of the rooms are fitted with a selection of the brand’s furnishings alongside bespoke artworks and essential amenities. The building also houses a café, a brand shop and a restaurant with an outdoor space, providing guests with the opportunity to enjoy a meal outdoors during the warmer months.

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The White Lady, as Hotel d’Angleterre is known, dates back to 1755. After a fire burnt down the original building in 1795, it moved to its current spot. The neoclassical palace’s underwent an extensive revamp in 2013 by the charitable Remmen Foundation, which aimed to make d’Angleterre feel like a “stylish but not stuffy stately residence”. Three of the 55 suites have a different theme – the Hans Christian Andersen suite contains charming cut-outs that the writer made in his downtime – and there are 37 good-sized rooms. There’s a mostly Danish art collection as well as Andy Warhol’s portrait of Queen Margrethe II. Come Christmas, thousands of lights on the hotel’s façade turn it into a yuletide landmark.