Cottage Industry

On the Danish Riviera, a shipshape summer house rethinks local craft

- SAM COCHRAN

How do you create something dynamic while honoring the past?" That was the question posed by Mikkel Beedholm of KHR Architecture when approached by a Copenhagen couple looking to build a summer cottage on the Danish Riviera of North Zealand. The site offered a pastoral canvas, with slender pines to punctuate the morning light and a gentle hill that cradles the setting sun. But the property also came with restrictions in accordance with the community, a planned group of midcentury dwellings, all modest in profile and topped by thatched roofs. Anything new had to blend in.

1. A THATCHED ROOF CROWNS A SUMMER HOUSE BY KHR ARCHITECTURE IN THE DANISH COUNTRYSIDE OF NORTH ZEALAND.

2. THE BESPOKE GARDE HVALSØE KITCHEN FEATURES GAGGENAU APPLIANCES.