Product Description:

My table is a story about nature, family, and materials finding new life. I began with Iceland raw lava, black sand, silver driftwood, and soft green moss. Strong contrasts that feel like home. And, as in much of the Nordic landscape, everything is connected to water, the sea, the lake, the river, always close to summer houses and places of retreat.

Dundur was my father’s nickname, and in Icelandic it means to enjoy oneself or to feel cozy. He designed many wooden summer houses, and in his larger buildings he often worked with combinations of wood, metal, and concrete. The formwork of cast concrete left irregular striped patterns on the walls a language of structure and time. His architectural approach has deeply inspired me, and through this table I carry it forward.

Dögg means morning dew water droplets, softness, and the colours of the sea and the northern lights. I found the table’s blue-green tone through water collected from a remote spring high in Northeast Iceland, a place accessible only one week each year. A friend brought this water to me from the site where a völva a seeress was discovered, resting there since the year 900. The water and the story guided me toward this exact colour.

Where my father often worked with sharp and strict geometries, I am drawn to gentler lines. That is why I had the L-profiles in the legs specially produced with rounded corners, while the square profile that connects and stabilises the structure is a standard form. In this way, my own design language meets the one I inherited. And then there is the dock. The tabletop planks come from the old oak bridges of Dokøen and the Copenhagen Opera House. I have walked across these boards for more than 20 years with a stroller, to the harbour bus, with my children, or alone with my thoughts. Now, the wood is allowed to stand above the water once again. The oak is untreated, and over time it will naturally turn silver in the summer sun, continuing its life outdoors.