Friends & Founders is a Danish design brand for contemporary furniture, lighting and accessories, founded in 2013 in Copenhagen by Rasmus Hildebrand (marketing expert with experience in Danish furniture design) and Ida Linea Hildebrand (designer, graduate of the Stockholm art institute Konstfack). The two met during Stockholm Design Week in 2008. The name Friends & Founders is programmatic: the best work in design and architecture is collaborative — and the relationships formed in that collaboration work best when grounded in honesty, trust and a long-term view. Company headquarters: Hillerød (north of Copenhagen, Denmark, Københavnsvej 34). Debut products KNOCKOUT coffee tables, SHELVISH shelves and MY CHAIR outdoor chair were awarded the 2014 Danish Design Awards of three renowned Danish design magazines (Bo Bedre, Bolig Magasinet, Costume Living). Friends & Founders controls all production phases internally — from concept through design, production to packaging and delivery. All collections are produced by Scandinavian and European craftspeople with a long furniture-making tradition.

Design language: Bauhaus aesthetics meets Scandinavian craft tradition; geometric abstraction, modernism and functionalism; contrasting material pairings (marble + metal, chrome + fabric, wood + steel). Colour palette: neutral — white, beige, grey, black. Signature products: Pipe chair (mid-century Scandinavian, slender steel tube legs, wide shell with wraparound backrest), Pipe Wood (wooden legs with organic inner and geometric outer edge), FF Chair (Bauhaus-inspired, tubular steel frame, recyclable and removable upholstery). Lighting: Paris Nights, Boxer (opaline glass sphere on marble sphere base), La Lampe. Accessories: Stand Out (freestanding open wardrobe, oval metal frame + marble cube), Tangent coat hook. Product categories: chairs, armchairs, sofas, tables, shelves, desks, mirrors, lighting, accessories. Residential and contract.

For architects and interior designers seeking for residential and contract projects a Danish design brand that in 2013 was founded by a marketing-design duo in Copenhagen, has developed a distinctive contemporary design language with the combination of Bauhaus geometry and Scandinavian craft tradition, saw its debut products awarded the Danish Design Awards of three design magazines in 2014, and with the full-control strategy (from concept to delivery) guarantees consistency in quality and design identity — Friends & Founders is a good address in the segment of contemporary Danish design furniture with Bauhaus-Scandinavian synthesis.