Kasper has many Vipp items in his own home, which he humorously christens “a Vipp showroom”. He said: “I grew up with the pedal bin at home. People in my local area call it the ‘Vipp House’.” Kasper lives in a Modernist home designed by architect Mads Lund and interior architect Studio David Thulstrup with his wife and three children in a suburb near Copenhagen.
Naturally, his home has become a test bed for new products. “All our products are made the same way as the pedal bin. Every item must live up to whether I would like to have it in my own home,” Kasper commented.
On houses, the brand has a unique project called the Vipp guesthouses. People can rent these properties and experience the Vipp world – using its toothbrush holders when they wake, cooking at its kitchens, lounging on its sofas, and of course, throwing trash into it the pedal bins.
Each property is a different housing typology, with a nuanced and charming setting in different parts of the globe. Kasper explained: “A Vipp guesthouse is the ultimate way of experiencing the brand. We have guesthouses in many places, encapsulating the brand with respect for the location and architecture, and are constantly on the lookout for the next Vipp experience.”
The first was the Vipp Shelter – a 55-sq-m black prefabricated steel cabin by Lake Immelin in Sweden – introduced in 2014. It was conceived as a plug-and-play concept and made from recyclable steel as a tribute to Vipp’s original 1939 steel bin.
Other guesthouses in Scandinavia include the Vipp Chimney House in Copenhagen, Denmark – a century-old water pumping station with a 35-metre-high minaret-shaped chimney – and The Bolder in Norway, which is designed by progressive architecture studio Snohetta offering amazing vistas of untouched nature. In Italy, there is Vipp Palazzo Monti in Brescia and Villa Vipp in Puglia in beautiful old buildings, while Casa Vipp perches high on the Andorra Mountains.
