[this post is the sixth in a series of guest posts we'll be sharing from our summer correspondent in copenhagen, brittany watson]

Copenhagen in August. Ahhh! I’m pretty sure this place is the definition of bliss right now. Can we say Fashion Week and Craft Fair? In between a smorgasbord of catwalks I visited the delightful textile designer Kirsten Fribert at her cozy studio apartment here in Copenhagen. I was pleasantly surprised to enter a yellow-lover’s haven, a very kindred-spirit moment (I just can’t get enough of mustard!). Kirsten established her brand, By Fribert, in 2003 where she designs a full range of home products including bed linens, pillows, shower curtains, tea cozies, the whole shebang. Kirsten views her home as a lab, a place of experiments, and the more I explored the more I discovered the fine details. It took me a solid 20 minutes to realize that her “wallpapered” wall in the living room was not wallpaper at all but lines she had drawn in with pencil, almost Agnes Martin-ish, and the kitchen cupboards were layered in a Piet Mondrian grid of masking and fluorescent yellow tape. Makes me want to decorate my own house with supplies from my tool box!

Her living room holds a collection of items from her artist friends like the owl pillow by Karen Bagge and ceramic vases by Ditte Fischer along with items from her world travels like the Moroccan rug and even her own silk-screen wall pieces and pillows from her collection. She uses bed linens from her collection and personal wardrobe items to add a punch of color to the monochromatic yellow bedroom (sigh). The bedroom rug is really two shag rugs, one white the other yellow, stitched together. With such a little flat, Kirsten used some ingenuity to expand the space like the yellow bedroom cabinet she made herself that hardly puts a dent in the space of the room. Brilliant!

Well, I must get crackin’ on my final project…wish me luck! Until next week! -b.

CLICK HERE for the rest of Kirsten’s home tour after the jump!

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