KODANSKA

Marie Graff is the designer and CEO of KODANSKA. Kodanska translates to Copenhagen street in Czech and this is the street where Marie and her family lived for several year. Marie’s husband Anders was an expatriate in the country and this gave a whole new everyday life for Marie with lots of space to unfold her passion for design and entrepreneurship.

This was also where the idea of Kodanska came about. Marie needed a salt jar for her home and she could not find a product where both functionality and aesthetics were in harmony. This became the start of a collaboration with a local Prague based ceramic designer, which fulfilled Marie’s vision of the ideal salt jar. The jar quickly became popular amongst friends and before long thereafter Marie was attending trade fairs for upcoming Danish designers.

The Kodanska business quickly picked up pace and gained interest in the Design industry. Meanwhile Marie’s passion for artistic Czech glass art grew and collaboration with a local glass blower commenced.