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‘It could have been a lamp or a coat stand. It could very easily have been a chair. When Andersen-Andersen started, the wish was to make something usable, beautiful and durable – an homage to the Danish design tradition of making functional objects without compromising on craft.

Maybe it’s the season. The beeches have just unfolded their bright green wings, the sky is high and clear. There is a sense of freedom in the air, goodbye to coats and socks, and at the bottom of a street, where the residential neighbourhoods turns into woodland, and hours become changing times, lies the house where Knud Holscher lives with his wife of a lifetime, Henny.