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Three of the studio team leaning over a timber massing model on the workshop table, marking up a drawing.

Designers, drafters and makers — a studio built on light and time.

A nine-person studio in Nørrebro, Copenhagen — drawing, detailing and delivering interiors since 2014.

THE STUDIO

RAVNSBORGGADE 12 — NØRREBRO, COPENHAGEN

We would rather draw one room properly than ten rooms quickly.

The studio was built around that constraint — the four-project year, the fixed fee, and the fact that the person who drew it answers the phone.

Founded by Mira Halden
2014
People on one floor
Nine
Projects a year
Four
Awards & shortlists
40+

AWARDS

2025
Interior Design Awards1st place — “Private Residence, Full Renovation”
2024
SBID International Design AwardsShortlisted — “Hotel Public Space”, Nordre House
2023
Elle Decoration Awards1st place — “Apartment of the Year”, under 90 m²

PUBLICATIONS

Elle DecorationNo. 4 (198), 2025
Architectural DigestApartment in a 1920s Warehouse Conversion
DezeenHalden Studio Wraps a Coastal House in Lime Plaster
A bedroom in deep teal with a slatted timber headboard wall, round mirrors and a wide window onto autumn trees.

How a project actually runs

Ten stages, in the order they happen — and the same person carries a project through all ten.

START A PROJECT
  1. 01First visit and brief
  2. 02Concept and mood direction
  3. 03Space planning
  4. 04Material palette
  5. 05Lighting scheme
  1. 06Working drawings
  2. 07Joinery detailing
  3. 08Tender and pricing
  4. 09Site supervision
  5. 10Styling and handover

The people behind the drawings

Nine people, one studio floor in Nørrebro. Everyone here draws — there are no account managers between you and the person detailing your kitchen.

We hire about one person a year and we keep them. The shortest tenure on this page is three years, which is roughly how long it takes to learn how a Copenhagen apartment goes together.

  • Freja Lindqvist at a drawing table, setting out a plan with a scale rule.

    Freja Lindqvist

    Senior Interior Architect

  • Ida Bruun standing in the studio in front of a monitor showing a floor plan.

    Ida Bruun

    Interior Architect

  • Emil Krogh beside a table of white card models, with framed drawings on the wall behind.

    Emil Krogh

    Head of Detailing

  • Sofie Aagaard with her arms folded, holding a red pencil, in front of a shelf of project files.

    Sofie Aagaard

    Interior Architect

  • Anders Holm holding a rolled set of drawings against a dark studio wall.

    Anders Holm

    Site Architect

  • Noah Vestergaard at a desk drawing beside a white model of a house.

    Noah Vestergaard

    3D & Visualisation

  • Liv Thorsen at her desk holding her glasses, a site helmet on the table beside her.

    Liv Thorsen

    Materials & Sourcing

  • Kasper Lund standing by a workbench of models with a rolled drawing under his arm.

    Kasper Lund

    Project Architect

The studio has never had a business plan. It has had a rule — the person who draws it stays until it is built. Everything we have turned down, we turned down because that rule would not have survived it.

Mira Halden — Founder
Mira Halden leaning over the drawing table, marking up a plan among material samples and elevations.

A room gets designed twice — once in the drawing, and once on site with the person building it.

We draw to construction standard from the start, so the trades quote from the same set we designed with. Then we turn up — weekly, and the person on site is the person who drew it. It is slower than handing over a folder, and it is the only way we have found to keep the thing you imagined and the thing that gets built the same thing.

The studio's own open-plan floor: a long concrete-floored room with modular sofas, exposed services overhead and glazed meeting rooms beyond.

We hire about one person a year. If that person is you, we would rather hear from you first.

Send drawings, not a cover letter — a plan, a section, a detail you are proud of. We read every one and we answer, usually inside the week and sometimes with a question about the joinery. Open applications stay on file for a year.

SEND YOUR WORK
A tan leather swivel chair against an arched oak screen with two round cutouts, beside a slatted timber wall.

Partners & Makers

Joinery shops, stone yards, lighting makers and mills — most of them known long enough that we can price a detail before it is drawn.

BECOME A PARTNER
A black cane-back armchair beside a fluted oak table holding books and a stoneware mug.

Norrsken

Bruk & Sønn

Kvist

A cream bouclé armchair and a walnut sideboard against a plaster wall, beside an arched wooden screen.

Lindeman

Stone Works

Atelier Moss

An oak sideboard and angular wall shelving against a raw concrete wall, with a grey armchair alongside.
A deep teal partition wall opening onto a pale blue kitchen with potted palms by full-height windows.

Halvorsen

Värm

Mark & Mørtel

Fjeld

Oktav

Sten & Kalk

Lime Plaster

Come and see the studio.Ravnsborggade, most Thursdays.

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