Preview

Copenhagen’s 3 Days of Design has spent most of its decade-long existence in the awkward position of being compared to Milan. The comparison has never been useful. The Danish event is a different kind of thing — smaller, slower, more focused on the domestic context that produced it — and trying to evaluate it against Salone’s scale was always a category error. The 2026 edition, which opens June 17, is the first to feel as though the organisers and exhibitors have collectively agreed to stop pretending. The programme is unapologetically Nordic, the venues are unapologetically domestic, and the work on display is unapologetically committed to the values — restraint, honest materials, considered proportions — that Scandinavian design has been refining for a hundred years. ...