So we are up in Struer, Denmark right now. I’m at my great grandmother’s cousin’s grandson’s house (or something like that) and it is absolutely beautiful. The house is a “sail house” by the Danish architecture firm, KPF. It’s one of several black, modern row houses along the banks of a beautiful fjord. A large, retractable sail on the rear of each of the homes gives them their name – it also shades the house from the bright sun.
Struer is the home of Bang and Olufsen, the upscale electronics and technology company, so the house came fully wired and outfitted with all of the new B&O products. My distant relatives just moved into their new home a couple of week ago, but they’ve already got the place filled with furniture, a lot of which I recognize from our Scandinavian Furniture Deign lecture.
When we arrived, Jahn (my super-distant uncle) and his wife Abigail had a delicious dinner waiting for us on their designer dining room table. We started with some smoked salmon and greens served with the best white wine I’ve had. For the main course we had fillet mignon and new potatoes with sauce. For desert we had fresh fruit and ice cream. Mmmmmmm.
Tomorrow we are going to go on a road trip around Struer to see where our family came from – I’m looking forward to it.
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