Meik Wiking

redagshygge/Søndagshygge [Fredashooga/Sundashooga]

Hygge you have on Fridays or Sundays. After a long week, fredagshygge usually means the family curling up on the couch together watching TV. Søndagshygge is about having a slow day with tea, books, music, blankets and perhaps the occasional walk if things go crazy.

Fredagshygge/Søndagshygge [Fredashooga/Sundashooga]

Hygge you have on Fridays or Sundays. After a long week, fredagshygge usually means the family curling up on the couch together watching TV. Søndagshygge is about having a slow day with tea, books, music, blankets and perhaps the occasional walk if things go crazy.

When, in the evening, from the top of a tram car, you look into all the homes on the first floor, you shudder at how dismal people’s homes are. Furniture, style, carpets – everything in the home is unimportant, compared to the positioning of the lighting.

Poul Henningsen (1894–1967), ‘On Light’

When, in the evening, from the top of a tram car, you look into all the homes on the first floor, you shudder at how dismal people’s homes are. Furniture, style, carpets – everything in the home is unimportant, compared to the positioning of the lighting.

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet,’ and I think his point applies to hygge as well.