Arde

Arde was established in 2015 by architect and designer René Hougaard and works from Denmark where industrial design, furniture, architecture and landscape repair overlap. Its brief to itself is broad: to move from a small object to a building to a rewilding scheme with the same holistic reading, on the argument that everything is connected.

Circularity is the organising principle. Arde describes designing across a product’s whole life — inception, prototype, production, use and readiness for recycling — and treats the afterlife of an object as part of the brief. The portfolio shows the range: ColorCable, a 2023 project to make extension cords visually acceptable; habitat and rewilding work for Vestre and Ege Carpets at Gjellerup Enge; furniture and lighting including Ana, Seva, Cupertino and Covent Lounge.