In 1932, Holger Nielsen wins a car, which he proceeds to sell in order to buy a stamping press. His wife, Marie, owned a salon, and one day she asked Holger: “I need a bin for the salon, can you make one?”
Out in his workshop, he created a bin, and nowadays, we know that bin as the Vipp Pedal Bin.
The Vipp design firm is coming up on its 80th anniversary, and the company is still family-owned and run by Holger’s daughter Jette Egelund, her two children, Kasper and Sofie, and 45 employees in Copenhagen.