Frama — a design house inside a 19th-century pharmacy

The pharmacy on Rigensgade

Frama's headquarters is not an office but an argument: the historic St. Pauls Apotek, a wood-lined Copenhagen pharmacy established in 1878 in the Nyboder quarter, which founder Niels Strøyer Christophersen found in 2014 and respectfully restored. The original apothecary architecture remains — embellished glass ceilings, medical drawers, weathered oil-treated floorboards — and the studio treats the space as a permanent work in progress, a living gallery where furniture, objects and events converge.

A design house living inside a 19th-century pharmacy — natural materials, simple geometry, and rooms you can smell.

Objects for mindful living

Frama describes itself as a multi-disciplinary brand for lifestyle objects that inspire the senses — furniture, lighting, kitchens, apparel, books and the St. Pauls Apothecary care collection, whose gender-neutral scents map places from Korean pine forests to the fir-panelled pharmacy itself. The design language stays constant across all of it: natural materials, simple geometries, uncompromising quality, and a warm, honest aesthetic that straddles earthy texture and cool, austere line.

Beyond the object

The studio runs its own interior architecture division — early projects transformed Copenhagen retail spaces around raw material palettes — and its ground-floor café, Apotek 57, extends the same sensibility into food, seasonal menus and La Cabra coffee inside the preserved pharmacy interior. Frama exhibits annually at Copenhagen's 3 Days of Design, where its Structure of Living presentation drew international attention.

Why Objena: Frama proves that a brand can be an atmosphere. For the Australian buyer furnishing a home as a place of restoration — not display — Frama is the entry point into everything Objena stands for.