Krøyer-Sætter-Lassen on collaboration, materiality and the memory-led design of the Nonna Table Lamp.
In a quiet corner of Nordhavn, just across from Audo House, Krøyer-Sætter-Lassen have spent the last several years shaping a design language that feels both grounded and evolving. Founded by Mads Sætter-Lassen and Emil Krøyer, the Copenhagen-based studio is built on a belief in dialogue — not just between designer and maker, but between past and present, function and feeling, material and form.
“Our collaboration with Audo began simply,” says Mads. “We were fresh out of school, full of ambition, and just happened to be neighbors. We knocked on the door.” What began as a series of small briefs has grown into an ongoing partnership. “It’s become less about single projects and more about continuous conversation,” Emil adds. “There’s a shared vocabulary now. We don’t need to explain every detail — we already understand each other.”
That sense of mutual trust and ease underpins their latest collaboration: the Nonna Table Lamp. Nonna is a quiet tribute; more than a design, it’s a reflection shaped by memory and emotion. “It’s not a literal homage,” Mads notes, “but it draws from our shared memories of our grandmothers, cultured women with homes full of art, books and soft light. There was something tactile and thoughtful in those spaces. That atmosphere shaped the design.”
With its archetypal silhouette and name that evokes warmth, Nonna reflects that inherited quietude. “The shape is almost childlike in its familiarity — a soft shade, a solid base. Something remembered rather than invented,” Emil explains. “But we reinterpreted it through a contemporary lens, with cleaner lines, purer materials.”
