Silk Lantern Pendant

GUBI is the global design house where timeless modern icons and the creative talents of today meet and mingle – a century of design brilliance in one daring, definitive, and ever-evolving collection.

Positioned at the point where the beauty of history meets the thrill of right now, GUBI is the creative force and curator behind the world’s most extraordinary design from the 20th century onwards. Whether diving into archives or driving the designs of today, GUBI is responsible for a timeless, inventive, and intercontinental collection of furniture, lighting and interior objects that merge function with meaning, enhancing every space.

As well as rediscovering and reintroducing lost treasures of design history for the present generation, GUBI collaborates with a hand-picked global roster of visionary design studios to create icons for tomorrow. Inspired by the past, always looking to the future, GUBI makes and shares stories that resonate with design lovers around the world, inspiring moments and memories to treasure.

Among the defining figures of mid-century Danish design, Ejner Larsen (1917-1987) and Aksel Bender Madsen (1916-2000) created furniture and lighting distinguished by sculptural simplicity, exceptional craftsmanship, and a deeply human understanding of form and function. Across the 1950s and 1960s, the duo developed around 300 pieces, many crafted in close collaboration with master cabinetmaker Willy Beck, from refined seating and shelving systems to thoughtfully composed interiors and lighting. Anchored in the principles of Danish modern, their work balanced restraint with warmth, practicality with elegance, and was defined throughout by an uncompromising attention to proportion, materiality, and comfort. Today, their work remains a defining expression of Danish modernism at its most thoughtful, purposeful, and enduring – timeless designs shaped by partnership, guided by craftsmanship, and refined with quiet precision.