Ferm Living - the Danish design company founded in 2005 - has recently moved into a large showroom and with space for their offices and design studios above.

The impressive brick building with a high and steeply-pitched tile roof and the large courtyard behind have recently been restored. With a matching building to the north, now occupied by the lighting company Louis Poulsen, and two long ranges on the west side in line and looking towards the harbour and with an ornate gateway in the gap between them, this was the 18th-century Arsenal of the Danish navy. It was designed by the important and influential architect Philip de Lange and was where the guns and arms for the warships of the Danish navy were stored.

Surviving inside the high space of the showroom are the massive timber posts and braces that supported the structure of the floors and roof above.

Ferm Living are now just over the harbour from Nyhavn … 250 metres from the Christianshavn side of the inner harbour bridge.

Louis Poulsen moves to Holmen

Ferm Living
Kuglegårdsvej 1-5
1434, Copenhagen K