Welcome to our portfolio of stories – each one is a testament to the power of collaboration and the beauty of interdisciplinary thinking. We hope you will enjoy!
SOAP OBJECTS
Category:
Fragrance installation
Completed in:
2026
For 3daysofdesign, we were invited by AXOR to create a sensory installation for the launch of AXOR Archivio, a new bathroom collection designed by Barber Osgerby and presented at the Dinesen Showroom in Copenhagen.
Water becomes an essential element in the encounter with AXOR Archivio. In response, we worked with soap as both form and material, creating an installation that brings attention to the intimate act of washing hands.
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Created through a meticulous casting process, the soap objects carry the texture and presence of Dinesen Douglas. Imprints of the wood are transferred into the soap, allowing traces of the showroom's materiality to take on a new and temporary form.
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The process explores how the qualities of a material can be translated into another while retaining traces of its character. What emerges is a sensory interpretation – soft objects that carry the memory of the wood from which it was formed while diffusing Worn, our room fragrance profile. Notes of jasmine and palo santo unfold a calm and intimate atmosphere, allowing fragrance and object to meet within the same sensory experience.
Photo credits: Stine Christiansen for AXOR/Hansgrohe SE.
THE IDEA OF A FOREST
Category:
Fragrance installation
Completed in:
2026
We contributed a sensory layer to This is not a forest at the Danish Architecture Center, developed in collaboration with Archival and Dinesen Lab.
The exhibition invites visitors to reflect on how we perceive and understand nature once it has been transformed into architecture and design. Following the journey from forest to built environment, it explores the relationship between wood, architecture and our sensory experience of materials.
As architects, this is a question we continually return to. How do materials shape our experience of a space? And how can we deepen our awareness of the qualities they carry with them?
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Architecture is often considered primarily through sight. Yet our perception of a place is formed through the stimulation of all the senses.
We notice the warmth of a material, the way sound moves through a room, the texture of a surface beneath our hand and the subtle smell impressions that inhabit a space. Together, these impressions shape what we often describe as atmosphere.
When wood is transformed into architecture, furniture or objects, it continues to carry traces of where it came from. Its grain, texture and smell all speak of a material that once existed as part of a living landscape. This relationship between material and memory is central to This is not a forest.
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Our contribution unfolds a sensory layer through fragrance that encourages visitors to engage with the material beyond its visual appearance. Rather than recreating the experience of a forest, the intention is to draw attention to the atmospheric qualities embedded within the material itself.
Photo credits: Hampus Berndtson, courtesy of Danish Architecture Center, and Dinesen.
NEW JORUM STUDIO STORE IN LONDON
Category:
Interior design
Completed in:
2025
We were invited by our friends at Jorum Studio, a modern luxury perfume house, to interpret their story and heritage from Scotland into a spatial narrative for their new store in Marylebone, London.
The store unfolds across two levels. Rather than treating them as a single continuous space, we allowed each floor to hold its own atmosphere.
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On the ground floor, a light blue colour welcomes the visitor. It draws in daylight from the street and creates a sense of clarity and openness. Here, the atmosphere is light, almost airy – only contrasted by selected wooden elements that anchor the space. A wall display invites visitors to explore the different profiles independently, encouraging curiosity and personal discovery.
Descending the stairs, the mood shifts. A warm yellow meets heavy, dark curtains and deep wooden surfaces. The lower floor becomes more intimate and acts as a space for immersion. At its centre, a round table establishes a sense of gravity. Around it, our curvy stools invite one to sit, pause, and enter into conversation. Here, the perfume profiles can be explored in dialogue.
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The interior project is about framing Jorum Studio’s identity in a space outside Edinburgh, Scotland. For us, architecture is the shaping of atmosphere, and in Marylebone that atmosphere became a vessel for craftsmanship, storytelling, and fragrance experiences by Jorum Studio.
Address:
2 Marylebone Street
London W1G 8JQ
Great Britain
Photo credits: Fraser Scott for Jorum Studio, and Monica Grue Steffensen for Dinesen.
KLARA LILJA × STUDIO PNEUMA
Category:
Art
Completed in:
2024
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, artist, 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.
Credits:
Sculptural Art Piece: Klara Lilja
Fragrance: Studio Pneuma
Art Direction and Visuals: Claus Troelsgaard and Studio Pneuma
MUUTO: GROUNDED IN NATURE
Project category:
Brand experience
Completed in:
2025
We proudly joined Muuto as a collaborative partner during 3daysofdesign in Copenhagen, contributing to their exhibition on neuroaesthetics – the study of how design stimulates the senses and shapes our experience of space.
In deep resonance with our own philosophy, the exhibition explored how sensory input – in particular smell, material, light, and sound – can anchor us in the present moment and evoke our connection to the spaces we inhabit.
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At Studio Pneuma, we approach air as a carrier of atmospheric information. Smell is often the first impression we register upon entering a space – something we breathe in without effort, but store deeply as emotional or spatial memory. These invisible dimensions are often overlooked in contemporary building culture, yet they hold profound potential for shaping how we feel and dwell within a given space.
The room fragrance featured in the installation, Floating Leaf, is one of the first spatial fragrances we developed. Its composition is inspired by Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Solaris, where two men drift in the sterile interior of a space capsule, reminiscing about Earth’s natural sensations. That scene became a metaphor for our own architectural surroundings – often dominated by standardised and sensorially flat environments. Floating Leaf responds to this scenario with a longing for tactile, sensory depth: its crisp green notes are diffused through natural stone, unfolding slowly and subtly in the exhibition.
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The installation was presented as a landscape installation atop Muuto’s Copenhagen HQ – a layered experience where smell, light, sound, and material converge. Visitors were invited to move not just through a space, but through an atmosphere – one that speaks to the emotional and poetic potential of thoughtfully designed environments.
A SENSE OF DINESEN
Category:
Brand experience
Completed in:
2019
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.
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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.
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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.
Photo credits: Jonas Bjerre and Jens Jacob Dinesen for Dinesen.
MODULAR CIRCLE HOUSE
Category:
Architecture
Completed in:
2021
Modular Circle House emphasises the inherent qualities of its surrounding landscape, allowing wind and light to form the circular formation of the building.
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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, wind and landscape views.
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The soft circular shape of the house is built from a modular system, making it easy to add square metres to the building. The circular course of the interior appears undisturbed, emphasising a coherent perspective throughout the building layout, promoting an active knowledge sharing across departments in the organisation.
With Modular Circle House, we wanted to create a new type of work environment where the spaces offer intimate and stimulating experiences.
Architects: Studio Pneuma
Client: D4 ApS
Consulting: Jesper Vimpel, Link Architecture, and Studio Pneuma
Executive architects: Prisme Architects
Build contractor: Murerfirmaet Yde Larsen
Credits:
Photos: Claus Troelsgaard.
Photoshoot styling: Anne-Line Bo
