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It’s a grey afternoon in Copenhagen’s Nordhavn, and, six weeks before opening, Orlando’s restaurant feels more like an art installation in progress. Big, wooden lamps are lying on the floor, waiting to be hung. “Those are made by my friend Thomas Dambo,” Orlando says, nodding upward. “He builds giant trolls from leftover construction wood. These lamps are made from what’s left after the trolls—the third life of the wood.”
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