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An inspiring new book from the bestselling author of The Little Book of Hygge about how to use space, light, and Danish design to transform your home to fit your needs Now more than ever before, our homes need to be a place of comfort, a place to feel safe when we shut the door. Our homes are where we can truly be ourselves, unwind, and create special memories with our family and friends. Inspired by Danish design and traditions, this beautiful new book from Meik Wiking shows us how to turn our home into a cozy sanctuary and live a bit like the happiest people in the world-the Danes. Hygge (pronounced hoo-ga) is the art of surrounding yourself in comfort and is at the core of Danish culture in creating a happy space. With simple tips based on new research from The Happiness Institute in Copenhagen, this book reveals what makes a happy home: including the difference between space and size, the importance of lighting, and how to foster better connections with our loved ones. No matter how much space you have or what your budget is, Meik explains how you can use color, light, and space to create your happy place and celebrate coziness the Danish way.

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Publié par	ABRAMS BOOKS
Date de parution	15 novembre 2022
Nombre de lectures	2
EAN13	9781647009236
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	5 Mo

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Editor: Soyolmaa Lkhagvadorj
Design Manager: Zach Bokhour
Managing Editor: Lisa Silverman
Production Manager: Kathleen Gaffney
Library of Congress Control Number: 2022938578
ISBN: 978-1-4197-6637-4
eISBN: 978-1-64700-923-6
Copyright 2022 Meik Wiking
Photography credits can be found on this page
Designed by Saffron Stocker
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First published in the UK in 2022 by Penguin Life, an imprint of Penguin Books/Penguin Random House UK.
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Contents
CHAPTER 1 DANISH DESIGN AND HYGGE HEADQUARTERS
CHAPTER 2 HYGGE, A PERFECT NIGHT IN
CHAPTER 3 SHINING A LIGHT ON HAPPINESS
CHAPTER 4 SPACE FOR HYGGE
CHAPTER 5 HOW TO DESIGN FOR CONNECTION
CHAPTER 6 WORK HYGGE, PLAY HYGGE
CHAPTER 7 THE C ZANNE EFFECT
CHAPTER 8 HYGGE IS HOMEMADE
CONCLUSION A HEALING PLACE FOR THE SOUL
PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CHAPTER 1
DANISH DESIGN AND HYGGE HEADQUARTERS

Can our homes make us happier? Can we design for well-being? Can we create better homes where we not only live, but thrive? The answers to these questions had been under my nose all the time, because growing up in Denmark means you grow up with two things: design and hygge.
You may be familiar with some of the names of Danish designers. Arne Jacobsen, Hans Wegner, Poul Kj rholm, Poul Henningsen, and B rge Mogensen are not just Danish household names, they are design icons throughout the world-and if you have watched Danish TV dramas such as Borgen, The Killing , and The Legacy , you have had a glimpse of Danish urban and interior design.
In fact, you may be one of those people who pause Borgen just to make sure those were Poul Henningsen Artichoke lamps in the prime minister s office. That attention to detail is why these shows have sometimes been referred to as furniture porn. By the way, I googled furniture porn. Regretted it immediately. Not what I thought!
Denmark is so linked with design that when the Simpsons-in the cartoon show-go to Denmark, the flight attendant instructs the passengers to apply the final coat of varnish if they have been designing and building furniture during the flight.
But design goes beyond beautiful chairs. Design by its very definition is a plan to show the function or workings of a place or an object before it is created. It is to imagine how a place or a thing could be different and how this difference may impact us.
Design impacts how we move in our cities, what food we put on our plate, how we interact with our loved ones, whether we have dinner with our neighbors, how happy we are at work, and what we do with the time that we have been given. In short, it impacts the fabric of life and what makes life worth living.
Design can inspire us to become better human beings, to change the world positively, and if we harness the power of design, we have the tools to improve our quality of life.
That was the foundation of Danish design. It s a design tradition with a humanistic approach. Design for human beings. An ambition to create functional products with superior quality for the ordinary citizen. Products that could be bought by the average worker. A combination of simplicity, functionality, sustainability, quality, user-friendliness, and aesthetics. And design in Denmark has always been a broad field. Architecture, for instance, has always been a big part of it; architects would typically design not only the building but also everything in it-furniture that fit the building and cutlery that fit the restaurant.
One example is the SAS Hotel in the center of Copenhagen, designed inside and out by Arne Jacobsen in 1960.
Danish design is all about making where we live the best possible environment for our health and well-being. Or as John Heskett, professor at the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology and School of Design at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, puts it, Design, stripped to its essence, can be defined as the human capacity to shape and make our environment in ways without precedent in nature, to serve our needs and give meaning to our lives. Perhaps there is only one thing bigger than design in Denmark-and that is hygge.

The importance of hygge
Hygge is the art of creating a nice atmosphere. It is about being with the people we love. A feeling that we are safe, that we are shielded from the world and can allow ourselves to let our guard down. You may be having an endless conversation about the small or big things in life, or just being comfortable in each other s silent company-or you may simply be by yourself, enjoying a cup of tea. It is the feeling of home. In other words, hygge is about how we turn a house into a home-into a place where we find comfort and connection. Designing your hygge home is to imagine which activities can take place here that will have a positive impact on your well-being-and then shaping your living space to make that happen.
It s difficult to overstate how important hygge is to the Danes and the Danish culture. The Danish obsession with hygge seems so ingrained in our cultural DNA and national values that to say you don t care about it would be as much of a social faux pas in Denmark as it would be for a British person to say, I don t think we should stay calm-I think we should freak out, or for an American to say, I ve been thinking lately about this freedom thing-and I ve come to the conclusion that it is not for me. Let me try to demonstrate just how much hygge means to us.
In 2016, the Danish minister for culture asked the Danish people the following question: Which social values, traditions, or movements that have shaped us in Denmark will you carry through to tomorrow s society? It was part of a national quest to uncover which values have made Danes who we are and would shape society in the future-a Denmark canon. They received more than two thousand suggestions, and the ten most important ones were decided upon by the ministry. They included the welfare state, freedom, trust, equality, and yes-you guessed it-hygge.
In 2019, when the International Astronomical Union celebrated its hundredth anniversary, it awarded each country a planet and asked them to name it. In Denmark, of the 830 suggestions sent in, five were chosen as possibilities-hygge was one of them. (Muspelheim won, the name of the burning heat that comes from the south and is guarded by Surt, the fire giant, in Norse mythology. Admittedly, slightly cooler than chocolate by candlelight.)
In Denmark, you can even write your Ph.D. on hygge. The first to do this was Jeppe Linnet, and no, it does not mean he spent three years researching the perfect number of cinnamon buns to eat in a day (he discovered that after six months). In fact, Jeppe conducted extensive ethnographic research on how Danes related to their home and how hygge influences the consumption of hospitality, food, and drinks. According to his findings, hygge is a situational sense of ease and pleasure-enjoying the here and now-an atmosphere brought about by the way you are with people, the mood of the encounter, and the feel of the physical space. The surroundings are very important when it comes to the feeling of hygge. It is about places with atmosphere.
Homes are hygge headquarters to the Danes. Not only is it where we relax and recharge, home is also central to our social life in Denmark. Whereas other countries have a culture of socializing predominantly in bars, restaurants, and caf s, Danes prefer hjemmehygge (home hygge). Perhaps it is because going out in Denmark is relatively expensive, or because Danes are typically introverted people and feel more comfortable in their own surroundings. You can easily tell an introverted Dane from an extroverted Dane. The introverted Dane will look at their shoes, and the extroverted Dane will look at your shoes. We are a nation of silent Northmen and -women.
Combined with our passion for design, this makes us a nation of introverted nesters with hygge as a national sport. So when COVID-19 hit and the government asked Danes to stay away from crowds, stay indoors, and spend time in our homes with as few people as possible, we Danes were like, We ve got this. We ve been practicing for this our entire lives!
But recently, hygge has also become a global phenomenon. Every year, the World Happiness Report presents a list of happiness levels around the world. The five Nordic countries-Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Iceland-usually top the rankings. That has led to increasing interest in the culture and way of life of Scandinavian countries-such as Danish hygge.
Search for books on hygge on Amazon and you ll get more than five hundred results. I wrote one of them. It has been translated into more than thirty-five languages and has sold more than a million copies. It set sail in Denmark but has reached every global shore. It has become the second Viking invasion-but this time the