Atlantica - 01.03.2004, Blaðsíða 12

ICELANDAIR FLIES 25 TIMES A WEEK TO COPENHAGEN
Kitschbitch
A little second hand shop offering small objects and clothing. It’s obvious
that the shop’s owner takes great pride in beautiful presentation and colours,
good service, and a fabulous location at Læderstræde 30, just below the
Strøget main street. Here you can buy clocks, lamps and glass vases: classic
items to enjoy for a lifetime, as well as second hand jeans that someone else
enjoyed for a lifetime.
Pinnau Antik
An antique toy store is the best way to describe this little shop filled with
comic books, old dolls and beautiful wooden toys. In here you’ll feel like a
character from a Tintin book, that’s how adventurous the place feels. With
everything from sailboats to old laboratory sets, the motto “boys will be
boys” definitely applies. Pinneau Antik is situated on Kompagnistræde 25,
which is parallel to Strøget. I spotted a large wooden Pluto dog here once,
but unfortunately it’s been sold.
De Ville
Per, the owner, sits at a desk that looks like it was hit by a bomb. He asks me
not to use the flash because he has a hangover. What a character. He’s a for-
mer sailor who six years ago decided to open a store. He’s collected an
impressive number of objects from the fifties and sixties, which isn’t easy.
There’s a vast selection of ceiling lights as well as glass objects and domes-
tic appliances. This is like opening a box of chocolates and my credit card is
screaming from my back pocket: “Use me! Use me!” DeVille is number 56
on Nansensgade, surrounded by small and bizarre businesses of all types.
Schultz & Co. Antik m.m.
There’s romance in the air here, something feminine about the selection of
products. The young woman who greets me is obviously the owner. We chat
and she makes light-hearted fun of Per, the former sailor. Her shop is also on
Nansengade, but number 40. The emphasis is on décor objects as well as
lamps and lighting.
Sut Skoen “Larsen’s Klædesko“
I’m even further up Nørrebro, all the way up to Birkegade 7, where a very
special little shop is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Owner, designer and
cobbler Lars only sells slippers. But these are no ordinary slippers. They’re
made of bits of left over rugs and textiles and they all carry the same price
tag: 150 Danish kronas, including the children’s ones. The array of colours
and patterns are so cheerful that one can’t help but smile. Lars is an amus-
ing oddball, and a true Dane. He thinks of his shop as a little art gallery and
I agree. I feel like I’ve bought a work of art as I walk out, proudly carrying a
wrapped-up pair of slippers.
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COPENHAGEN IS FULL OF SMALL AND QUIRKY SHOPS SELLING EVERYTHING BETWEEN
HEAVEN AND EARTH. INTERIOR DESIGN WIZARD FRIDRIK WEISSHAPPEL POKED
AROUND TINY SIDE STREETS AND VENTURED INTO STRANGE BASEMENTS IN THIS
NORDIC CAPITAL OF SHOPPING.
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