What does beauty mean today? And who gets to define it? HURS spoke with five leading women who've built their lives around chasing it—a gallerist, a designer, a stylist, a chef, a founder—each redefining what beauty looks like on their own terms.
Louise Roe finds beauty in the in-between. The Danish designer, who founded her eponymous studio @louiseroecph in 2010, works in the space where early art deco meets Brutalism meets Bauhaus minimalism. Her vessels, lamps, furniture, and objects are crafted by skilled European artisans, each piece a quiet study in proportion and material. In 2018, she opened a gallery and café in central Copenhagen—a space that feels like a natural extension of her practice, where design is meant to be lived with, not just looked at. The business has since become a family affair: her husband, her sons, her daughter, all in. For Roe, design has never been a solo act.
