GAME ON: Helle Mardahl Casts Candy Crush in Glass

In Copenhagen, the Danish designer’s GAME ON installation brought mouth-blown glass to life through colour, symmetry, and the irresistible logic of play.
Make this Moment Matter is the overarching theme of 3daysofdesign 2026. Rather than looking backwards or forwards, Copenhagen Design Week makes a quiet case for the present, and for design that carries genuine purpose. Highlights include intimate bathing routines, sewing machine-crafted pieces, sound clubs and Candy Crush-inspired glassware.

In Copenhagen, the Danish designer’s GAME ON installation brought mouth-blown glass to life through colour, symmetry, and the irresistible logic of play.
Teapots, pitchers, soap trays, brush holders – In Copenhagen, the Bread & Butter exhibition explores bathing rituals through design pairings across cultures.

From a lamp using gravity to shine and a lounger tracing the arc of a spinal column. This year’s Ukurant exhibition blurs craft and function.

A listening bar, DJ sets in the courtyard, and a podcast lounge — music and design speak the same spatial language at Fritz Hansen’s Sound Club. The 3daysofdesign installation explores what great interiors are truly for: composed around people, not objects.

Stitched lamps, enfolded chairs, a leather sling suspended in steel — Erwan Bouroullec, Foster + Partners, and more work with the sewing machine for the VÆRKTØJ exhibition at 3DaysOfDesign.

From Alvar, the 90th-anniversary pavilion for Aalto’s vase, to sewing-machine craft and listening bars — here is everything worth seeing at 3DaysOfDesign 2026.