UNWONTED
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Unwanted fibre becomes an UNWONTED experience. The brand makes alpaca duvets from fibres that would otherwise go unused. Across Poland, 47 small farmhouses produce fleece in quantities too small for industrial processing. UNWONTED collects, grades, and processes these volumes into duvets with GOTS–certified organic cotton shells, entirely free of synthetic components. Founded in 2025, the brand bridges Copenhagen design and Polish agriculture, where the founder's father and sister trained as professional shearers to supply the collection. Collection that is limited by the natural shearing cycle. Alpaca fibres accounts for 0.05% of world textile production and the experience of sleeping under it remains unfamiliar to most.

Unwonted is part of Summer Nights curated spatial installation located opposite Kongens Have and Rosenborg Castle. A double bed forms the central element, layered with alpaca duvets and placed on thick, hand-knotted wool rugs. Light, loosely hanging curtains define the space. Hand–thrown ceramic objects are introduced as structural accents. People spend a third of their lives asleep. The exhibition takes this as its premise—an interior in suspension between rest and display, domesticity and abstraction, where objects are experienced through texture, weight, and spatial rhythm. A restrained scent of warm asphalt and lilacs is subtly integrated. A moment of pause shaped by craft, material clarity, and the temporal stillness of summer nights.

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