Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic If he had the time, which he absolutely doesn\u2019t, Daniel Brix Hesselager would have designed and made every chair and table in his home on the edge of the woods in Aarhus, on the east coast of Denmark. \u201cI studied furniture design at college,\u201d he says. \u201cBut now I\u2019m what you\u2019d call\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009a theoretic craftsman.\u201dBut while Rains, his cult weatherproof clothing brand whose fans include Dutch footballer Virgil van Dijk and British rapper Central Cee, isn\u2019t anything close to tables and chairs, he considers it to be adjacent. \u201cI always saw the brand as a universe inhabited by products that could [either] be interiors-based, or the clothes we make now. And there\u2019s a lot of hardware involved in creating Rains products.\u201dHe met his business partner and co-founder Philip Lotko while studying at the Teko Design School in Herning. After an aborted attempt at running a streetwear brand, they came up with the concept for a waterproof apparel line because, as he says, \u201cit rains a lot in Denmark\u201d. They launched in 2012. The minimalist, mostly monochrome nature of the brand has made it a success internationally, with 2023 revenues of DKr627.7mn (\u00a369.9mn) and 30 stores across four continents, in cities from New York to Shanghai. It started out primarily with jackets and capes, at price points around \u00a3100, and has expanded into bags, thermal parkas and accessories. The aesthetic is reflected in the interior of Brix Hesselager\u2019s home, where he moved with his partner Line, a teacher, and three children, aged six, nine and 11, a year after launching the business.\u00a0The transformation of his home, like his business, was based on a single strong idea: here, Brix Hesselager was looking for something with the potential to make a statement and would allow him to flex his creative muscles on a significant scale.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s what I\u2019d\u00a0call \u2018historical architecture\u2019, because it\u2019s a mix of so many different styles, from Roman to Dutch,\u201d he says. The house was originally built by a wealthy brewer in the 19th century as a summer residence. \u201cHe was really the first person to move to the area and build such a grand place. Then other business people followed.\u201d\u00a0The building was left empty for around a century before it was taken over by the town and used as a community hall. \u201cIt looked institutional,\u201d he says. \u201cThe ways in which it had been reconfigured damaged it a lot. We brought an architect back in to reshape it, focusing it around three main living room spaces, and moved the main entrance from the south of the building, to [maximise] where most light would get in, and for a new sense of symmetry.\u201dBrix Hesselager has stacks of photographs of the house from when the brewer lived here \u2014 it was full of heavy, ornate brown furniture and chintz textiles. The home had been christened \u201cKrathuset\u201d and was a flamboyant display of industrial wealth.\u00a0The exterior broadly still looks as it did when it was built in 1871, but the interior furnishings, finishings and reconsidered proportions are arrestingly contemporary. There\u2019s a futuristic Blossi chandelier consisting of six saucer shapes attached to a powder-coated metal circle in the living room, created by Danish designer Sofie Refer for Nuura \u2014 one of several dazzling, handblown light fittings that illuminate the place after it gets dark in mid-afternoon, during the short days of winter.\u201cI immediately loved the house because it\u2019s so close to the forest \u2014 what we\u2019d call a skov hus \u2014 and the sea,\u201d says Brix Hesselager, who moved to Aarhus for proximity to the Rains studio. \u201cI knew it was far too big for what we actually needed. But I loved the idea of bringing something so historic back to life, in a totally contemporary way.\u201dAlthough eclectic, the place is still, largely, a paradigm of modern Danish design, with clean lines, muted greens and greys, and furniture from the Scandi canon. It\u2019s as precise and considered as a film set; exactly where you\u2019d imagine a successful young Danish fashion entrepreneur to live.\u00a0Up in an attic space, by a wood-burning stove, is Finn Juhl\u2019s 1949 Chieftain Chair in walnut and black leather. At the bottom of the staircase is Juhl\u2019s curvaceous 46 Sofa. Around the marble dinner table \u2014 a set of brown leather Series 7 chairs by Arne Jacobsen for Fritz Hansen from the mid 1950s. The colour palette is a visual echo of the nearby oak-filled woodlands, while the graphic split-square shapes of the oak flooring in the hallway are a recreation of the 19th-century original, as well as a reference to what\u2019s still flourishing outside.\u00a0Delft blue is painted on the walls around the stairs, as well as on replicas of two 1820s engravings by Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen from the original interior, one featuring a winged figure scattering flowers from the sky; the other with an angel carrying two children that represent sleep and death. \u201cI find these works interesting, the juxtaposition of life and death,\u201d he says. \u201cI wanted to make them feel more contemporary by painting them the same blue as the rest of the space.\u201dIt\u2019s as precise and considered as a film set; exactly where you\u2019d imagine a successful young Danish fashion entrepreneur to liveThere are some decidedly un-Danish visual twists to the house, too. \u201cI think there\u2019s a lot of southern European style evident in the building,\u201d says Brix Hesselager. The architecture is Italian-inspired and ornate, and the family frequently brings back pieces by street artists from their holidays in Barcelona.\u00a0On a wall behind a Muller van Severen Duo Seat \u2014\u00a0part chair, part chaise, with a minimal hammock construction on a metal frame \u2014 there\u2019s a brightly coloured painting by Barcelona-based artist Sam Grant of a woman in green jeans holding a yellow-and-pink striped ceramic. Brix Hesselager acquired it from urban art gallery Base Elements in the city\u2019s Gothic Quarter.The lozenge-shaped dining table is a swirl of sand and coffee-coloured marble, a palette echoed by the sofa \u2014\u00a0a 1970 design by Mario Marenco from Arflex. It\u2019s low to the floor, soft and inviting, wrapping around the coffee table in a giant L-shape. It\u2019s practical, too.\u00a0\u201cThis is where we gather most as a family,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s great to chill out, but also fun for the kids because they can jump all over it, like a playground. We spent a lot of time thinking about what furniture needed to be child-friendly, but the sofa is also like a cool sculpture as much as it is functional.\u201d\u00a0There is also actual sculpture nearby: a giant all-white work that dominates one wall. It looks like a cast of a rock face. It\u2019s by Jacob Egeberg, a Copenhagen-based artist who has created several installations for Rains stores.\u00a0The sculpture is made by 3D scanning small models and then carving them by CNC router. When the house was built, the technology behind Egeberg\u2019s sculpture would have been unimaginable. Today, Aarhus is the second-largest city in Denmark and a hub for culture and design.\u00a0It\u2019s ironic that what was once a summer house now really comes into its own in winter, when the surrounding forest and grounds are heavy with snow. One of the main changes in the configuration of the house was moving the kitchen, which was originally in the basement. Today, it takes over a large space on the ground floor with views out to the south-east; the sun floods the room every morning.\u00a0When natural daylight is in short supply in the Scandinavian winter, every beam counts. And like his brand\u2019s mission of creating garments for people to go about their business as normal in a downpour, so Brix Hesselager has created a home that\u2019s bright when it\u2019s dark, and warm when it\u2019s cold.Find out about our latest stories first \u2014 follow @ft_houseandhome on Instagram<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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