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    DANISH FAIRY TALE

    Jun 06, 2019 3 minutes
    WORDS CLAIRE MCCALL
    PHOTOGRAPHY
    ANDREAS MIKKEL

    KARINA AND MARCUS MENCKE VAGNBY, who designed this house in the trees, admit to some nervousness when the copper cladding they used on the double-storeyed living volume was first installed. “We had to be patient as the façade started off a dazzling rose-gold and, for a couple of months, its shine was quite extreme,” says Karina.

    The small town of Søllerød, 20 kilometres north of the Danish capital, Copenhagen, is steeped in a fairy-tale landscape of lakes and forests. The two industrial designers, both of whom studied at the Royal

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