Linda Korndal

Linda Korndal of Toko Among Friends


Linda Korndal, born in Denmark in 1982, is an architect and designer whose work navigates the delicate balance between precision and poetry. In 2020, she founded Toko Among Friends, a Copenhagen-based studio that moves effortlessly across architecture, interiors, and furniture design—creating spaces that feel simultaneously alive, intimate, and layered with meaning.

A graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Korndal has spent over twenty years shaping environments that are as functional as they are emotive. Her early tenure as head architect at Norm Architects informed her approach: an architecture that is attentive to how people inhabit, interact with, and feel within a space.

Korndal treats design as a form of dialogue. Every object, room, or building is conceived as a participant in human experience—an actor in the unfolding narrative of daily life. This philosophy is embedded in her studio’s name: toko na mo, a Japanese term for a small niche where treasured objects are displayed. Toko Among Friends celebrates these pockets of meaning, translating subtle gestures of care and attention into architecture, interiors, and furniture.

The studio’s first major collaboration, Keen, a modular shelving system for GUBI, embodies Korndal’s ethos: rigorous yet playful, practical yet poetic. Across all her work, Korndal seeks not only to craft forms but to enrich moments—elevating ordinary rituals into experiences imbued with wonder.

Linda Korndal of Toko Among Friends


Linda Korndal, born in Denmark in 1982, is an architect and designer whose work navigates the delicate balance between precision and poetry. In 2020, she founded Toko Among Friends, a Copenhagen-based studio that moves effortlessly across architecture, interiors, and furniture design—creating spaces that feel simultaneously alive, intimate, and layered with meaning.

A graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Korndal has spent over twenty years shaping environments that are as functional as they are emotive. Her early tenure as head architect at Norm Architects informed her approach: an architecture that is attentive to how people inhabit, interact with, and feel within a space.

Korndal treats design as a form of dialogue. Every object, room, or building is conceived as a participant in human experience—an actor in the unfolding narrative of daily life. This philosophy is embedded in her studio’s name: toko na mo, a Japanese term for a small niche where treasured objects are displayed. Toko Among Friends celebrates these pockets of meaning, translating subtle gestures of care and attention into architecture, interiors, and furniture.

The studio’s first major collaboration, Keen, a modular shelving system for GUBI, embodies Korndal’s ethos: rigorous yet playful, practical yet poetic. Across all her work, Korndal seeks not only to craft forms but to enrich moments—elevating ordinary rituals into experiences imbued with wonder.