Mads Emil Garde
A Danish architect, interior designer and furniture designer, Mads Emil Garde works in the space between function and poetry. His designs begin with a practical question — and arrive somewhere more complex, more considered, more alive.
Between simplicity and depth
Mads Emil Garde grew up in the tradition of "form follows function" and "less is more" — the twin pillars of modern Scandinavian design. But over the years, he found himself drawn to something beyond reduction. To the moment where a simplified form opens up into something that makes you stop and think.
His work holds that tension deliberately. Practical needs are never ignored — they are the starting point. But the destination is always an object that does more than its function requires. One that carries a quiet complexity the eye keeps returning to.
A form that speaks
Jundo, meaning purity in Japanese, is a daybed that emerged from a single structural insight. The traditional bed-rib, compressed and multiplied, becomes both base and legs at once. A single element doing everything, assembled into a form that is sculptural without trying to be.
The result is an object that invites rest and rewards attention in equal measure. Soft enough to disappear into a room. Precise enough to define it.