Nice surprise

Yesterday t-shirt weather – this evening snowing 🙂 7 months to Christmas

We made it

After 4 very intense days of transforming the huge reception area at the Goverment of Greenland – Changed by so many people, at least 20 people everyday – everything has been changed – so when they get in to work today ( its night for me cant sleep after being very busy for a long period) they will be met by a 100% transformed huge environment…we still need some things, like the carpets which are in India and have been delayed because of the pandemic. Plants – big and small will fly up with a florist next week, and later today I will recieve some extra delayed furnitures and lamps with the flight…plus a whole big area upstairs…

I am so thankful with the result, and most of all full of gratitude for all the professional people who has made it possible, it has been so lovely.

In some weeks I upload photos of the project from a professional photographer, the photos below doesnt show the end result, until then I am excited to hear the response of the result from The Goverment of Greenland…

Former Prime minister Jonathan Motzfeldt

It found its place

Waiting for glassfronts

Changing the colour of strings for some very love lamps

Unpacking after cleaning came in 9 pm for the 4th time today and helped

Temporary location for a big paiting

Two patiently waiting tables for the reception

Dedicated to art

Fixing the ceiling and internet for a 1000 people – tadaa first art exibited

Choosing bronze things for another cabinet

The Led light is so well in the cabinet

Waiting for glassfronts and walls which are being painted

A lot of smaller items, soapstone, bronze, ceramic having their own little Space, before glassfronts are put on and the cabinet is hanged on the wall.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

Worth a lot of lovely art

For this project I designed many different things, today we have been working on putting up one of the art cabinets. Im so thrilled with my design and the beautiful result of the woodworkers craftmanship…One thing is that you have an idea, another thing is finding people who are able to realise it.

Before the art cabinet can be placed, we had to move it another time, at put in safely the glass fronts,

We slided glasspieces in to their place

Then we plugged in some small wood pieces (dont know their name)

I dont know their name

Covering the wood pieces to protect the glass

At the bottom and sides we made extra panels

I really look forward to experience it tomorrow morning with the light and on its permanent place. And start arranging the art..

The plan is that it is permanent closed from the front and that the art has to be removed, rearranged cleaned by opening up wood panels from behind.

Colour poetry

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First try colour – art work – breathing happiness

Handmade

Beautiful ceramic polarbears made by local clay from the fiord

Wax mould for bronzerings

Sewed wild sweetgrass baskets

A walrus

Carved wood sculptures

Bronze sculptures – I love the colour

Cabinets waiting for its glassfronts and to be hanged om the walls

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Safety first

Soapstone sculptures

Unpacking a lot of art mainly sculptures to sort out how to exibit them in the new cabinets…together with paintings and the rest of the interior…BUT only imagining and planning in my mind because, its impossible for the moment..too much stuff and people working everywhere..

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Ceilings, walls, floors are worked on, so Im waiting patiently to be able to move on…

Quite glad :)

A custommade acoustic door

And a lot of acoustic walls made by the woodworkers, behind the oak panels acoustic filt creating better acoustic environment in this big entrancespace of the Goverment of Greenland where so many people pass by during a day.

Custommade oak cabinet without its glassfront and Led lightpanels.

Part of it – in-between-cleaning and beautiful sunshine outside

Colonial Daybed by Ole Wanscher fabricated by Carl Hansen & Son – unpacking and hour before use to protect it as much as possible.

Part of the new custommade reception – smoked oak – moved and placed temporary

Blankets everywhere to protect

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Protected workers – better safe than sorry

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Drilling with a HUGE drill – I love tools

My day is mainly circling around a LOT of communication, taking small and big decisions – although the project is well described, there will always be issues occurring which has to be solved immediately . When there is a very tight timeschedule, problemsolving and good coordinatingvwork of 20 different people is so important so nobody has to wait for another persons work…

Some of my people will work until late this evening and others will start 4 am, which I really appreciate. Meanwhile the Goverment of Greenland is having their half yearly intense gathering taking political decisions, and exactly this week (our project was delayed 4 weeks because of Covid-19, so we have to work next to their intense work), which means using heavy tools in specific hours are NO go 🙂

By the way renovation-, interior- and buildingprojects are a very male dominated world, and I really find it easy and nice to work with all these skilled men…

Voila’

Yesterday

Today

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Yesterday 4 pm until now so much have been done.

I wonder where the cables are leading – big mystery, nice we have an extra block of greenlandic marble to make some mending in these holes.

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Cutting those 4 takes a LOT of effort, plus closing the watersystem for a 1000 people

New interior and spacedesign is soooo much more than changing furnitures and colours! Its dirty, a lot of stuff, hidden important supplies, of course the furnitures are important BUT the easiest part of it!

Look at the colour difference at the marble floor – we are waiting for a specific cleaning maschine to fix the floor so it get the same colour every where.

Progress

The sweet receptionist working while we started to prepare taking the reception down

Soon gone

Gone

5 days of speed and excitement

Today and the next 5 days full speed of work for me and my huge group of helping people…I have chills of happiness.

Another 20 feet container load of lovely furnitures

For some of the art, with a glass front

Beautiful colonial chair by Ole Wanscher from Carl Hansen

One of the cabinets for art

A custom made door with acoustic panel and a tired mover after moving hundreds and hundreds of heavy oak tree panels.

A suitcase with the tools of the woodworker

A moment of no running

Electricians moving the alarm system and the old reception which will be taken down today

Moving moving moving