Levin's farm - 29 Havnegade, 1058, Denmark

About this space

Italian idyll revisited Banker Martin Levin of Russian Jewish descent was the first to build a villa with a view of the Øresund's blue waves, when the Naval Shipyard was moved to Holmen and made room for new, upscale neighborhoods in the center of the city. Originally a detached mansion, which with facades of Palladian character almost 'folds' around the corner; then surrounded by gardens and open spaces to the sound of sailors and ships in bustle. The architect was JD Herholdt. Royal Building Inspector and a productive man. Levins' therefore joins a larger family of well-known buildings such as the University Library in Fiolstræde, the Polytechnic Institute in Sølvgade and Denmark's first department store Grøn's, which can be experienced in Holmens Kanal via Danske Bank. As the very first in the city, the house had a 'water closet' installed from the start and was richly decorated in Pompeian style. Fashionable and impressive interior art in ocher and gold with antique motifs such as Jupiter and Neptune, garlands, thyrsos staffs and 'running dogs' probably still hide behind now painted walls. In 1900, the house belonged to the butter wholesaler Lars Emil Bruhn, the greatest numismatist of the time; in the 1920s De Danske Spritfabrikker moved in and then Arbejdernes Andelsboligforening in the mid-1960s.

Amenities

• Wi-Fi
• Breakout Areas
• Fully Furnished
• Meeting Rooms