Enjoy white nights above Norway’s Arctic Circle with Vipp style, a coolcation for couples where you can interact with its upscale kitchen, lounge on the sofa and swivel on a chair designed by 1980s Norse god Mags from synth-pop trio A-ha.
It began with a beige bin. Danish minimalist brand Vipp was established when its founder, Holger Nielsen, designed a functional pedal bin for his wife’s hair salon.
Its cachet has mushroomed, evolving from a supplier of stylish basics to a low-key luxury label, a go-to for minimalist, industrial-style home goods, sleek kitchens and furniture that isn’t readily identifiable.
Established in 1939 by Nielsen, it now has stores stocking its ranges across the globe, from Austria to Taiwan.
Fast-forward almost 90 years, and its real beauty is in the fact that the brand isn’t readily identifiable.
In an era of stealth wealth where you can Google the price of an egg chair or a Tulip table and buy endless copies, it speaks to the new era of quiet luxury where mere mortals don’t know how much the pieces cost.
This is exactly what the ultra-wealthy want. As clients, they are demanding.
So, to deal with such high-maintenance homeowners, the firm came up with a rather novel idea: to offer guesthouses where you can go and stay and experience the furniture and furnishings in real life for a period of several days.
This brings a whole new approach to the purchase of high-end furnishings. You get to try before you buy.
It is the ultimate way to sell a lifestyle.
With about 13 guesthouses across the globe, you can stay in upstate New York, Tasmania, the southern island state of Australia, Mexico, France, Italy, Andorra, and the Scandinavian states, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway.
All the properties are done in collaboration with peerless architecture practices.
With coolcations on the rise, the addition of a house on stilts overlooking the archipelago of Lofoten offers a compelling escape.
On the island of Stormolla, set above the Arctic Circle, along Norway’s wild western coast, with its distinctive scenery of dramatic mountain peaks and sheltered inlets of gin-clear water and kelp forests, the house sits above the shoreline.
Open all year-round, it offers a front-row seat to the Northern Lights, should the weather conditions be right.
At this time of the year, you can experience the endless white nights of summer,
Perched on stilts, the timber and glass structure is part of a resort master planned by Norwegian architects Snøhetta and designed by Logg Arkitekter.
While appearing minimal in style, the wooden cabin is a very contemporary nod to the historic fishermen's cottages, rorbuer, resting on poles in the water, seen across Lofoten.
For centuries, Storemolla was home to skippers and their rowboats.
The cabin sleeps four.
You and some of your closest design-loving friends can lounge on the sofas, cook in the dark, moody stainless-steel kitchen, and swivel in a special-edition chair designed in collaboration with 1980s Norse synth-pop god Magne Furuholmen (Mags) of A-ha, who is now a visual artist.
The area is great for hiking and rock-climbing. In winter and very early spring, there’s skiing.
The minimum stay is two nights.
The price is €1,675 per night, making the cost of its minimum stay from €3,350.
The house can sleep up to four people, ideally two couples.
The location isn’t really child-friendly.
To view the complete collection and to read more on Vipp’s guesthouses, visit Vipp.com
