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We visit Marie to talk about transforming
a blank canvas into a deeply
personal space and how she lives and
grows with the Stacked Storage System.
One might say that the Hesseldahl family
home is an exercise in making something
newly built or renovated, a clean
slate, into your own, exuding a rich sense
of history and identity. While the former
police station now-apartment building
they moved into just 3 months ago is a
historic site – the large window in their
dining room was the main entrance to the
house – the apartment was renovated in a
surprisingly faceless manner, with white
walls and a little too much left to the imagination.
marie — The apartment felt like a
blank canvas, so it was important for us to
restore some sort of life back to the place.
When we moved into this monochromatic,
white apartment, I immediately knew that
I wanted, and needed, to add some color.
By adding color, texture and warmth –
on walls and through objects and textiles –
the space started to feel more authentically
their own, more like home. The collector
type by nature, she mindfully distributed
art, design objects and family heirlooms
across rooms to weave their own history
into the fabric of the home.
The apartment retained some original
details, among them a load-bearing wall
with a pillar in the middle of the space,
making it the perfect room for built-in
storage, otherwise lacking in the home.
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The warmth of the Stacked
Storage System in Oak is
complemented by the refined
simplicity of the Workshop
Chairs around the family’s
dining table.
Marie Hesseldahl is a
Design Manager at Muuto and
holds a master’s in Industrial
Design from Kolding School
of Design in Denmark.