Vipp returns to its beginnings with a new collaboration

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“Holger, I need a bin for my salon. Can you make one for me?”

This is how the story of the Danish design brand Vipp began. It takes us back to 1939, when hairdresser Marie Nielsen asked her husband, Holger Nielsen, that very question.

Vipp revisits its iconic pedal bin in a limited edition collaboration with HENRI

This became the very first Vipp bin, and through Marie’s salon, further requests soon followed. Before long, the bin was found in Danish medical and dental clinics, and from there its development gathered pace.

Today, it is a piece of Danish design history, and Vipp now produces a wide range of recognised products.

The icon remains the bin, with very little changed over time. In 1992, when Jette Egelund, daughter of Marie and Holger, took over the company, the lid was refined. But she also reshaped the mission together with her children: Holger’s design should now also belong in private homes.

She introduced the bin to some of Scandinavia’s leading furniture and design stores, and today Vipp is an internationally recognised brand sold worldwide.

More than 80 years after Holger delivered his first bin to Marie, Vipp remains family-owned and operated. For many years, their son Kasper Egelund served as CEO, and today he is brand director, following the recent appointment of Morten Woldum as CEO. Woldum has been with the company since 2010.

And so we arrive at the actual news.

Vipp has never lost sight of its origins. In a new collaboration with Copenhagen-based salon group HENRI, the brand relaunches its iconic pedal bin in a limited edition, symbolically returning it to where it all began.

“Bringing the bin back into a salon context feels like closing the circle”

On the left is Marie’s salon, where the story of Vipp began with the first pedal bin in 1939.

The collaboration also points to a meeting between two Copenhagen-based brands with an eye for craftsmanship and aesthetics. Since its founding in 2014, HENRI has developed from a modern men’s hair salon into a universe with eight locations across Copenhagen and its own product line.

The new edition is finished in Henri Teal, a muted blue-green shade developed in collaboration between Vipp and HENRI.

As Jette Egelund tells Vipp’s own channels:

“If you go back to the beginning, Vipp started in a salon. My father originally made the first pedal bin for my mother’s hairdressing salon. For decades, his bins were primarily used by professionals such as doctors, dentists and hairdressers, before finding their way into private homes. Bringing the bin back into a salon context feels like closing the circle.”