Margrethe Odgaard is a Danish textile and colour designer

September 1, 2025

Margrethe Odgaard is a Danish textile and colour designer dedicated to exploring the sensory and emotional effects of colour. Her work is grounded in the belief that colour perception is a holistic, sensory experience, and she is committed to creating products that not only please the eye but also nurture the body and mind, fostering a positive impact on the observer. Since establishing her design studio in 2013, Margrethe dedicates her time equally to an artistic practice rooted in self-initiated research, and to engaging in commercial design collaborations with leading industry brands that bring the research to life.

Margrethe has showcased her work in solo exhibitions at prestigious venues including Röhsska Museum (Sweden), Designmuseo Helsinki (Finland), Willumsen’s Museum (Denmark) and Munkeruphus (Denmark). She has also authored “Shades of Light,” a meticulously curated book featuring 276 colours developed specifically for the unique Nordic light. She has been honoured with various prizes and awards, including the prestigious Torsten & Wanja Söderberg Prize in 2016 and most recently, The Art, Design, and Architecture Prize from the Einar Hansen og Hustru fru Vera Hansens Fond in 2023.

Margrethe Odgaard works with colours from an overall sensory approach and believes that interiors created with the intention of nourishing the body and soul can have a noteworthy positive effect.
Her ambition is for colours to stimulate energies and create atmosphere. When you step into a room, you'll not necessarily pay attention to the colours. The important aspect is your physical experience of your presence in the room.

In her work with colours, Margrethe Odgaard focuses on the importance of their competences. In developing the 56-colour palette, she therefore created a preponderance of social colours that complement and lift each other, as well as individual diva colours that stand out clearly and add vibrant dynamics.
The mineral-inspired colours make it possible to create an infinite number of combinations in which the colours relate and react very differently to each other.

With the ambition of creating poetry in the floorscape, Margrethe Odgaard wants to communicate positive emotion you can take with you. This is an emotion that you cannot necessarily identify, but which nevertheless exists and nourishes you.

About Margrethe Odgaard
Margrethe Odgaard is a textile designer and colour alchemist. She divides her time equally between commercial collaborations and artistic work based on her own research.
Margrethe Odgaard's client book includes Kvadrat, Muuto, HAY and IKEA and she has had solo exhibitions at e.g. Willumsens Museum (DK), Röhsska Museum (SE), Designmuseo Helsinki (FI) and Munkeruphus (DK). She's also part of the Included Middle design duo.

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