We started our conversations in 2022 about how a physical, tangible art piece made in ceramic could ground an abstract smell experience and create an atmospheric realm.

We invited Klara Lilja to explore a curation of our fragrance archive in our studio. From pure intuition, she chose a profile, and from then on, her process began. Months later, we visited her atelier and experienced for the first time a beautiful sculpture drenched in just one green glaze—a colour she envisioned when she smelled our fragrance creation for the first time.

The art piece is filled with details formed by her hand. At the top of the sculpture is an open and porous detail—specifically made for the fragrance to drop and diffuse, spreading the smell through natural evaporation. It brings to life images of how a flower attracts insects with its colourful appearance and smell, allowing for an essential transaction between the flower and the insect—spreading pollen to propagate.

The art piece is directly connected to the smell it arose from.

The fragrance's name is Vascular Cambium, and it adds an almost real-time experience to a sculptural flower that has never existed before.

Together with visual artist Claus Troelsgaard, we interpreted the atmospheric realm surrounding the collaborative art piece. We created a fictional space where the contrasts of the synthetic understanding of nature and the handmade sculptural piece and gesture float together in a fluid, lonesome void.


Sculptural Art Piece: Klara Lilja

Fragrance: Studio Pneuma

Art Direction and Visuals: Claus Troelsgaard and Studio Pneuma

The newest member of our product universe is our Curvy Stool—a stool and a side table constructed from solid oak with a playful concept and composition.

We started drawing the design as a collage of our form alphabet—an alphabet of shapes with expressive curves heavily inspired by the human anatomy. Delving into corporeal scale and expressions is our extensive inspiration when designing objects that trigger our senses and invite us to interact with them. We always aim for our designs to fit the body—like puzzle pieces made for one another.

Curvy Stool is constructed of leftover cuts from beautiful solid planks by Dinesen, using high-quality pieces that would typically have been discarded.

Our relationship with Dinesen goes back to when we began our collaboration under the project name, A Sense of Dinesen, with artist and researcher in smell Sissel Tolaas.
Whatever part of the wood we investigate and work with, it always invites us to sense and ground us. Therefore, it seemed natural for us to create a wooden furniture object that invites you to touch it and let the curves melt with your scale and body.

As always, we are intrigued by the different facets that the play between light and shadow offers—the stool's character changes when experienced from different angles as the sun and daylight interact with it.

The stool is crafted close to the Dinesen production site in Southern Denmark by local, talented makers.

In collaboration with Sissel Tolaas, artist and researcher of smell, and Dinesen, we embarked on a journey to explore, understand, and pay tribute to Dinesen Douglas through the sense of smell. The collaboration was based on our curiosity and love for the majestic Douglas tree.

The outcome of the collaborative project was manifested in an archive of collected smells, from which we composed an intriguing scent that captures Dinesen Douglas's complexity—a complexity that goes far beyond the visual sense.

So, how do you record and collect the smell of a tree? We travelled with Sissel Tolaas from Schwarzwald, Germany, to Dinesen's main production site in Jels, southern Denmark.

Smells from the impressive Douglas trees were collected using special recording gear. Sissel Tolaas' meticulous recordings were first registered as data and hence converted to an archive of documented molecules, an archive we called DD–1, from which we explored a wide variety of Dinesen Douglas smells.

From the DD–1 archive, we isolated specific molecules we found interesting in order to create an essence of Dinesen Douglas through the sense of smell.

DD–2 is the name of the Dinesen Douglas scent. It represents beautiful moments from our field trips, the freshness of a newly cut Douglas tree, the dryness from the sawmill and the calm feeling of being surrounded by Dinesen Douglas planks.
DD–2 is an homage to Dinesen Douglas, curiosity, and collaborations that open our world.

Photographer: Jonas Bjerre, Jens Jacob Dinesen, Studio Pneuma

Modular Circle House is an architectural project completed in 2021 that emphasises the inherent qualities of its surrounding landscape, allowing wind and light to form the circular formation of the building.

We wanted the shape of the architecture to offer shelter from the wind while framing the surrounding nature, allowing for the ever-changing day and sunlight scheme to set the interior's atmosphere and indoor climate.

Through thorough studies in a daylight lab, we worked on orienting the building in correlation to light and wind.

The soft circular shape of the house is built from a modular system, making it easy to add to the volume of the building. The circular course of the interior appears undisturbed, emphasising a coherent perspective throughout the building layout.

With Modular Circle House, we wanted to create a new type of work environment where the spaces offer intimate and stimulating experiences—boosting creativity and knowledge sharing.


Architects: Studio Pneuma

Client: D4 ApS

Consulting: Jesper Vimpel, Link Architecture, and Studio Pneuma
Executive architects: Prisme Architects

Build contractor: Murerfirmaet Yde Larsen


Photographer: Claus Troelsgaard

Photoshoot styling: Anne-Line Bo

The Tasting Lab, framed by a glass curtain wall and airy, translucent textiles, emerges from the heart of the distillery.


Within the frames of the experimenting distillery of Empirical Spirits, the ambition was to support their curiosity and hospitality in a Tasting Room. 

In collaboration with Dinesen Lab, all furniture pieces came as bespoke solutions—from a black serving table with matching stools as the centrepiece of the space to a playful shelving system to display their archive of ingredients, artefacts and stories from their many travels, just like an ever-changing Cabinet Of Curiosities, from where visitors can observe the buzzing life from the distillery. 

We wanted to work with an overall organic concept inspired by Empirical Spirits' use of fermentation, letting materials interact and transform. We translated their approach to flavours into a spatial concept in an atmosphere that stimulates the senses and mind.

Photographer: Claus Troelsgaard