{"id":189568,"date":"2026-04-08T13:56:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189568\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:56:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:56:44","slug":"six-months-after-fire-danish-furniture-store-lanoba-to-reopen-in-clinton-hill-brooklyn-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189568\/","title":{"rendered":"Six months after fire, Danish furniture store Lanoba to reopen in Clinton Hill \u2022 Brooklyn Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lanoba, the vintage Danish furniture store destroyed in a fire last fall, will reopen in Clinton Hill on April 11. <\/p>\n

Photos courtesy of David Singh\/Lanoba<\/p>\n

The vintage Danish furniture shop Lanoba is coming back bigger and better than ever, just six months after a devastating fire.\n<\/p>\n

Lanoba, owned by husbands Lars Noah Balderskilde and David Singh, was one of dozens of small businesses and artists studios destroyed by a five-alarm fire<\/a> in a historic Red Hook warehouse last fall. They lost every single piece of carefully-sourced and imported furniture in the store.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But hope came quickly. A GoFundMe to help with recovery costs raised more than $62,000<\/a>. Six weeks after the fire, Lanoba opened<\/a> a temporary store in space offered up by the Red Hook Cidery, stocked with the contents of a single shipping container that had been stuck at customs when the fire broke out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"vanThe warehouse at 481 Van Brunt St., Lanoba\u2019s former home, just after the fire last September. File photo courtesy of David Singh\/Lanoba Design<\/p>\n

On April 11, they\u2019ll celebrate the grand opening of Lanoba\u2019s<\/a> new permanent home, a 9,500-square-foot showroom at 6 Waverly Ave. in Clinton Hill. They\u2019re excited for a new beginning, but leaving Red Hook wasn\u2019t easy.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbout a year and a half we were in Red Hook. But the community there is so strong, and we really wanted to stay in Red Hook,\u201d Singh said. \u201cWe were very happy just to have a temporary space and we were holding out hope we could move back into our original space.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

But the damage to the warehouse was more extensive<\/a> than had been realized. The building\u2019s owners, the O\u2019Connell Organization, are still working to make it habitable again, and the timeline of construction and inspections kept getting longer. Singh and Balderskilde were grateful for their space at the Cidery, but it was small, and they couldn\u2019t run the store at the scale they needed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had always said we thought we could hold on until January, February,\u201d Singh said. \u201cWe held out to February, and then March came along \u2026 when it became evident that the building would not be ready, and clear inspections and things like that, it was time to look for a new home and get back to doing business the way we\u2019re used to doing it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"newThe new Lanoba showroom at 6 Waverly Ave. in Clinton Hill. Photo courtesy of David Singh\/Lanoba \"lanobaThe Lanoba team has been hard at work finishing the space and filling it with new furniture. Photo courtesy of David Singh\/Lanoba<\/p>\n

They relatively quickly found the Clinton Hill showroom. It\u2019s larger than their old Red Hook location, Singh said, with skylights and more space for the workshop where Balderskilde restores furniture. And the neighborhood is perfect for their clients in Manhattan and Brooklyn, Singh said, easily accessible by transit and by bike.<\/p>\n

The new Lanoba will be fully-stocked with new pieces. They\u2019ve been rebuilding their inventory for months, Singh said, but with limited space available at the Cidery, have only been able to display about a quarter of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cLars has been working night and day between here and Denmark,\u201d he said. \u201c[He] has actually rebuilt the entire stock and then some. We\u2019re in a larger space now and we brought in four ocean containers plus some additional storage that we had. We\u2019re actually opening with the biggest selection of products we\u2019ve ever had in our history.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"lanobaThe new showroom will be stocked with more items than Lanoba has ever offered before. Photo courtesy of David Singh\/Lanoba \"desksA stack of Danish-made desks, restored and soon to be on sale at Lanoba in Clinton Hill.Photo courtesy of David Singh\/Lanoba<\/p>\n

That includes some pieces they\u2019ve never stocked before.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have an Arne Vodder sideboard, which is extremely rare, there\u2019s probably a handful left in the world, at most. We have some amazing desks, which are just a quality that is above and beyond you can imagine. There\u2019s so many great, interesting things that I think will surprise anyone who\u2019s come in here.\u201d<\/p>\n

The grand opening is set for 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 11. It\u2019s traditional in Denmark to celebrate a new business with Danish hot dogs, Singh said, and Balderskilde wanted to bring that to Brooklyn. So they\u2019ll be serving up Danish dogs with red sausage, remoulade, ketchup, mustard and both raw and fried onions to mark the occasion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After that, Lanoba will be open for shopping Saturdays and Sundays, 12-4 p.m.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI think this is the comeback story, of course, and I think it\u2019s also a symbol of all the businesses \u2014 there are so many businesses and artists that suffered \u2014 that it\u2019s not impossible, you can come back,\u201d Singh said. \u201cIt\u2019s not the end of the story, that wasn\u2019t going to be the final chapter, that it burned to the ground. There\u2019s a lot more stories to tell, and we\u2019re excited about that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lanoba, the vintage Danish furniture store destroyed in a fire last fall, will reopen in Clinton Hill on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[76031,76032,76033,98,100,99,288,4308,28291,76034,76035,53597,545,13613,76036,8482,76037,76038,76039,76040,76041,76042,9,24,12,370,63,35878,8645,18392,35879,6632,35881,76043],"class_list":{"0":"post-189568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-481-van-brunt-st","9":"tag-6-waverly-ave","10":"tag-april-11","11":"tag-brooklyn","12":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","13":"tag-brooklyn-news","14":"tag-business","15":"tag-clinton-hill","16":"tag-danish","17":"tag-danish-furniture","18":"tag-david-singh","19":"tag-desks","20":"tag-fire","21":"tag-furniture","22":"tag-furniture-store","23":"tag-grand-opening","24":"tag-import","25":"tag-lanoba","26":"tag-lanoba-design","27":"tag-lanoba-furniture","28":"tag-lars-balderskilde","29":"tag-midcentury-modern","30":"tag-new-york","31":"tag-new-york-city","32":"tag-news","33":"tag-newsletter","34":"tag-nyc","35":"tag-oconnell","36":"tag-recovery","37":"tag-red-hook","38":"tag-red-hook-fire","39":"tag-warehouse","40":"tag-warehouse-fire","41":"tag-waverly-avenue"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}