Jacob Egeberg
Jacob Egeberg is a Copenhagen-based designer working at the intersection of industrial technique and domestic storytelling. Since graduating from The Royal Danish Academy in 2020, his practice has turned colour and craft into instruments of confrontation, asking what a functional object is permitted to look like, and who gave it permission to look that way.
Colour as Confrontation, Form as Machine
Egeberg's objects begin as arguments, not sketches. An amphibious vehicle becomes a lounge chair suited for land and water. A furnace of liquid iron becomes a mirror frozen mid-pour. A NASCAR engine becomes a chandelier. Each translation strips a familiar industrial reference of its original function and reinstalls it inside the domestic interior, where it is asked to perform an entirely different role, no longer to move, or burn, or race, but to sit still and be looked at. This is design as storytelling: the object as the residue of a displaced idea.
The studio works across an unusual material register for furniture, styrofoam and soft PU foam finished in pigmented polyurethane and automotive paint, aluminium sand-cast to capture the texture of molten flow, quartz sand additively printed into solid volumes, stainless steel laser-cut and folded from a single sheet. Industrial methods are chosen for what they allow: lightness, water resistance, a surface that reads as machine-made even when shaped by hand. The finish is never neutral, colour and coating carry as much of the object's meaning as its silhouette.
Since completing his degree at The Royal Danish Academy in 2020, Jacob Egeberg has gained international recognition for a body of work that treats industrial reference as narrative material, furniture that borrows its logic from vehicles, machinery and construction sites, then asks it to sit quietly in a living room. The studio continues to develop bespoke pieces alongside its editioned collections, extending its material research into marble and other stone on request.