Reading Designs

Simone Book Services

Simone is not just a bookstore. It was founded to open a discussion about how design should be thought around the reading experience.

I. Daniel Schofield / II. Derya Arpaç / III. Kasper Kyster / IV. Lærke Ryom / V. Staffan Sundström

Interior architect
Derya Arpaç

Designers
Daniel Schofield
Derya Arpaç
Kasper Kyster
Lærke Ryom
Staffan Sundström

Pieces
Made for Simone, 2026. Not for sale; on view during opening hours.

For the bookstore and showroom we asked five Copenhagen designers to each make a piece for the room. The pieces belong to the shop and are not for sale. They can be seen during opening hours.

I.Daniel Schofield

Bench and stand

Reading Bench and Book Stand

Daniel Schofield

Daniel Schofield is a British furniture and product designer based in Copenhagen, with a background in graphic design and carpentry. He studied furniture and product design at Sheffield Hallam University, was mentored early by Terence Conran, and founded his studio in 2012. He has designed for Audo Copenhagen, NaughtOne, Ercol, SCP and Benchmark, and his work has received the Wood Awards, the Design Guild Mark and the Elle Decoration British Design Award. He looks for simplicity and use: objects meant to be valued and kept for a long time.

The Reading Bench and the Book Stand are made in black Valchromat, a plain material chosen to sit beside the leather and the cherry wood, so both feel simple and architectural. The bench is where visitors sit down to read.

Work: Reading Bench and Book Stand, black Valchromat
Web: Daniel Schofield
Materials: black Valchromat, 19 mm (Forescolor), oiled with Osmo
Photos: Armin Tehrani, Staffan Sundström

II.Derya Arpaç

Interior architect · Shelving

Shelves

Derya Arpaç

Derya Arpaç is a Copenhagen-based architect and furniture designer with a Master of Arts in Architecture and Design from the Royal Danish Academy. She works by intuition and moves freely between architecture and furniture, treating a room and an object as one problem of proportion, material and atmosphere. She aims for designs that are clear, calm and made to last.

The floor-to-ceiling cherry wood shelving runs along the room like a long horizon line. Cherry wood was a favourite in Danish homes for decades before it went out of fashion; carpenter Jonas Lyndby Jensen first recommended it here. It brings warmth and weight to the room, and a sense of time. The wood will darken with age and show where it has been used, and the shelving stays in the background, giving the room the calm of a private library.

Work: Floor-to-ceiling cherry wood shelving
Web: Derya Arpaç
Craftsman: Jonas Lyndby Jensen
Materials: cherry wood
Photos: Armin Tehrani, Staffan Sundström

III.Kasper Kyster

Displays

Magazine Rack

Kasper Kyster

Kasper Kyster is a Copenhagen-based furniture designer whose practice combines material research, industrial production and craftsmanship. He works across furniture, objects and spatial installations, developing each project by hand and by experiment, and often uses everyday materials and manufacturing processes in unexpected ways. He is interested in how things are built and in what ordinary materials can do, and his pieces are clear in structure and strongly tactile. He works both independently and in collaboration.

The display is made from raw aluminium sheet, assembled with exposed black screws and bolts. Its built-in shelves set magazines and books in a steady rhythm, so the publications become part of the structure. The modular system scales from a narrow freestanding unit to a full wall. The material is industrial and the detailing precise and restrained, so the eye goes to the publications.

Work: Simone Magazine Displays
Web: Kasper Kyster
Materials: raw aluminium sheet, black screws and bolts
Photos: Armin Tehrani, Staffan Sundström

IV.Lærke Ryom

Counter

Leather Counter

Lærke Ryom

Lærke Ryom (b. 1995) is a Danish furniture designer based in Copenhagen, where she graduated from the Royal Danish Academy in 2022. She works between furniture and clothing, bringing the details and techniques of tailoring into furniture.

The 3.6-metre counter wears a leather cover cut deliberately oversized. Slightly offset seams soften its strict form into gentle curves and give books and magazines a soft surface to rest on. The counter is mobile, yet its size makes it the calm centre of the room, and the leather dampens the acoustics. The shifting tones of the leather follow the colours of the original terrazzo floor. Hidden zippers open onto storage under the upholstery.

Work: Leather counter
Web: Lærke Ryom
Materials: leather from Sørensen Leather, zippers, MDF
Photos: Armin Tehrani, Staffan Sundström

V.Staffan Sundström

Paintings

Metamorphosis

Staffan Sundström

Staffan Sundström is a Copenhagen-based art director, photographer and painter. He was art director of Kinfolk magazine and of the Swedish design studio Note, and has made images and editorial productions for Scandinavian publications, design houses, museums and restaurants, among them Fritz Hansen and Iittala.

He painted three works for Simone’s walls, Metamorphosis among them, and photographed the space.

Work: Three paintings, made for Simone. Interior photography
Web: Staffan Sundström
Photos: Armin Tehrani, Staffan Sundström

VI.See the pieces

Vester Voldgade 106

The pieces are in the room at Vester Voldgade 106, in central Copenhagen, and can be seen during opening hours. They belong to the shop and are not for sale.

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1552 Copenhagen V
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Saturday and Sunday 11:00 to 16:00
Monday closed
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