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JEPPE UTzON
dEnMARK
“EVERYTHING SHOULD
BE DONE FOR A REASON
DUIS AUTE IRURE DOLOR IN REPREHENDERIT
CILLUM. TIA NON OB!
- THE RIGHT REASON.”
IN VOLUPTATE VELIT ESSE MOLESTAIE
Jeppe Utzon
Jeppe Utzon is the principal of Cold Wet & Dark in Copenhagen, Denmark, and his work includes both architecture and design.
As an architect Jeppe Utzon has worked on numerous building projects, ranging from private residences to larger commercial building complexes.
www.utzon.com
As the grandson of Jørn Utzon, the original designer of the Sydney Opera House, Jeppe
Utzon is a third generation architect - and fourth generation designer. After completing his formal education at both the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen in 1999, and after extensive involvement in the family firm, Jeppe Utzon set up his own architectural practice focused primarily on classical building design and, to a lesser extent, on product design.
His first design footprint was left in Australia when he created the multiple award winning Jeppe Utzon BBQ for Electrolux Home Products, an exquisite minimalist interpretation of the Australian barbecue, considered to be an object of architectural inspiration and a piece of modern art to admire. Since then he has earned design commissions at an ever-increasing rate.
Jeppe Utzon received the Australian Design Mark in 2006, was awarded the Powerhouse Museum Selection in 2006, won the Bottom Line Design Award in 2007, received an award by the Danish Arts Foundation in 2010, and was appointed Architectural Ambassador 2011-2012 for Bo Bedre - the premier Danish design magazine.
The Æblehaven 1 villa was designed for a wheelchair bound owner and his wife. Inside there are no doors, walls, or steps. For someone in a wheelchair it’s easy to get around the house and exterior terrace. Everything was carefully designed to the smallest detail, including the window treatments, flooring, and the back
wall closets. The west facing house was designed to catch the evening sun, and the colors of the closets and window treatments were chosen to give the interior a warm feel in the low evening sunlight. Almost everything in the house was custom made, including the exterior brick made specifically for this house, the floor, window treatments, closets, curtains, and sun protection canopy.
Jeppe Utzon Photograph by Karen Rosetzsky, all other photographs and images by Jeppe Utzon
Æblehaven 1