Matt Gibberd, co-founder of The Modern House, recently visited the Louisiana Museum for the first time.

He tells us about his trip:

“Arriving in Copenhagen by plane was like descending into an industrial fug: the cloud cover began just above the runway and finished somewhere near the moon. However, despite all forecasts, the following day was crisp and clear, and we boarded a train for the half-hour trip out to Louisiana. On the way, we could see all sorts of exciting Modernist housing out of the window, including what looked like a sprawling Span estate.

“Like all of my favourite places (Fondation Maeght, Roche Court, Chateau La Coste), the Louisiana Museum synthesises art, architecture and landscape. It’s right on the sea, with views of the Oresund Sound and Sweden. The museum was named after the old villa that stands on the site; the first owner of the property, Alexander Brun, married three times, and all three wives were called Louise. The building in its current form, with various modernist attachments, was completed in 1991 to a masterplan by the architects Jørgen Bo and Wilhelm Wohlert.

“We saw a series of amazingly powerful assemblages by Louise Bourgeois. Entitled The Cells, the pieces play on all meanings of the word – from prison cell to monk’s cell to the smallest biological units of the body. The museum also has some suitably skinny Giacometti sculptures and a room full of figures by Juan Muñoz.”