To think it all started with a trash can. I first became acquainted with Danish lifestyle brand Vipp<\/a> during Copenhagen\u2019s annual design festival, 3 Days of Design<\/a>. Last summer, I visited one of the company\u2019s experiential spaces, Vipp Garage, where a mid-century industrial building was transformed into a sultry Moroccan guesthouse. The takeover was conceived in collaboration with Studio KO (the Marrakesh- and Paris-based architecture practice behind the Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakesh and Chiltern Firehouse in London), who, for the occasion, introduced Vipp\u2019s signature modular V1 kitchen in a striking copper coating.<\/p>\n Also in a luminous rose-gold-esque finish was Vipp\u2019s first product, the humble pedal bin, created in 1939 by Holger Nielsen. In 1932, when he was just 17, Nielsen won the lottery. His prize was a car\u2014though, not having a license, he instead sold it and used the money to build a metal factory. When his wife Marie opened a hair salon in 1939, she asked her husband to create a bin. Over subsequent decades, Nielsen\u2019s design went from being a favorite of local businesses to an international design icon (in 2009, it even entered the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York).<\/p>\n Today, Vipp is run by Nielsen\u2019s grandchildren, Kasper Egelund and Sofie Christensen Egelund, and produces everything from sofas and rugs to lighting and mugs. In 2014, Vipp opened its first guesthouse, a 592-square-foot steel pod in Lake Immeln, Sweden. The company\u2019s portfolio has since expanded to include 14 more properties, typically set in nature-filled destinations off the beaten path, such as Todos Santos on Mexico\u2019s Pacific coast or Tasmania\u2019s Bruny Island.<\/p>\n default<\/span>Photo: Courtesy of Vipp<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n As a freshly minted fan of the Vipp universe, I was thrilled to learn that the company\u2019s latest guesthouse would be opening during spring 2026 in my proverbial backyard, the Catskills\u2014and that I\u2019d have the privilege of staying there this April. The 1,200-square-foot building sits beside a private pond at the edge of a forest in\u00a0Pond Eddy, a hamlet in Sullivan County. Two hours door to door (and one very scenic swirling drive along the Delaware River later), my husband Craig and I arrived to the Vipp Pavilion<\/a> in our rented SUV, a recommendation we were grateful to have been given for navigating the property\u2019s unpaved grounds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"Image](\"https:\/\/assets.vogue.com\/photos\/6a16e6ee754933e6a6221155\/master\/w_1600%2Cc_limit\/Vipp-upstate-new-york-drone-07.jpg\"\/)
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