The Triple Folly Ebeltoft, Denmark

Completion

The Triple Folly

Ebeltoft, Denmark

The pavilion at Kvadrat Headquarters is complete.  The building, set in the coastal dunes surrounding the textile company’s headquarters in Ebeltoft, on the east coast of Denmark, is a design collaboration with the artist Thomas Demand.

The pavilion's form is inspired by the combination of three ‘found’ objects chosen by the artist: a piece of yellow legal paper, a paper plate, and an American soda jerk’s hat. The three objects are assembled as a still life on a gentle hillock within the landscape; they provide a meeting room, a small kitchen, and a larger flexible living room that holds a hanging textile piece by the artist Rosemarie Trockel.

Main photo by Nic Tenwiggenhorn, courtesy of Thomas Demand
Photos below by Caruso St John Architects

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