The first stop for design-aficionados, or anyone seeking to understand this national obsession, is the Danish Design Centre.

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"People think 'I'm going to buy this, and then my second kid will use it, and then I'll give it to my niece, ' " said Todd Thedinga, CEO of San Francisco-based online retailer Design Public and its sister site, Danish Design Store.

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Take it to go and stroll down Laugavegur Street, lined with Danish-inspired design stories.

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Peruse some of the best of Danish fashion and design, and bring home an immaculately tasteful exhibition souvenir.

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The design concepts in this post are from Danish industrial designer Esben Oxholm.

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The Danish Architecture Centre on the waterfront in the Christianshavn area focuses on design for the built environment and offers guided tours of changing exhibitions, with an emphasis on environmentally-sustainable architecture.

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The dispute has blossomed into a battle as well over the design of the project, by Bjarke Ingels, a 38-year-old Danish architect whose futuristic designs often leave critics swooning.

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