So these lamps are common among regular people. He’s an ordinary guy who initially furnished the flat for himself, but then realized he had other plans. Who would do that? Why? Whyyyyyyy?Īnd it’s not like my landlord is crazy rich. And though I’ve been working in the West and earning a very decent salary for a while… WHAT. I mean, €2,000 for a lamp? That’s my grandparents combined yearly income. Visit a student on a shoestring budget and you may still encounter a €1,000 Verner Panton lamp in the corner of her thirty-two-square-metre flat.Īlso, I don’t think this guy knows what “a shoestring budget” means.īut that’s the lamp I have in my future apartment! And… the one my landlord left for me is apparently of the €2,000 variety. If you say so… though I’d really would have liked my ceiling lamp when the sun goes down at 4 PM!!! Several smaller lamps around the room create a more hyggeligt light than one big lamp set in the ceiling I thought the living room was a bit dark, with no lamp on the ceiling, but looks like it’s supposed to be like that: I just got my new apartment in Copenhagen, and one thing I’ve been missing is light. The closest you will ever come to seeing vampires burnt by daylight is by inviting a group of Danes for a hygge dinner and then placing them under a 5,000K fluorescent light tube I mean, I kind of knew that already, but seeing it on paper makes me want to cry.Īnd if it wasn’t bad enough that winters are dark and cold and summers are short, Denmark also has 179 days of rain per year. The obsession with lighting comes from the lack of contact with it in the natural world… the only resource Denmark has in abundance is darkness

I thought The Little Book of Hygge must be the third best book on the topic, after Asterix and the Great Crossing and Asterix and the Normans And now, I need to prepare!Īnd this means, on top of improving my knowledge of Danish history, geography, language, culture and pop-culture, I need to do some reading on Danish lifestyle. I recently, very spontaneously, decided to become a Viking move to Denmark.

The little book of hygge book