Nikolaj Manuel Vonsild & Fie Lindholm

Home tour series | Episode 10

Nikolaj Manuel Vonsild & Fie Lindholm

Meet Fie, yoga teacher and graphic designer, and Nikolaj, singer and frontman of When Saints Go Machine. Together, they live in Copenhagen with their son and their dog. Their home reflects their shared instinct for color; walls, ceilings, and woodwork painted in tones that shift with the light throughout the day and across seasons. What they’ve created is not static, but alive: a space where color moves, changes, and quietly shapes the atmosphere of everyday life. For them, living with color is about feeling, a way of making a home that is personal, open, and constantly evolving.

Color played a central role in Verner Panton’s design philosophy. How do you personally live with color in your home? Do you see it as something that shapes the atmosphere and inspires you?

Fie: We have colors on the walls, ceilings, and woodwork in most rooms. The colors interact closely with the light, shifting in character from morning to evening, from season to season. It becomes a spectrum of tones and nuances that feels like a gift, gently infusing the rest of the home as well. Perhaps that’s why we still appreciate the colors we’ve chosen; they feel generous, dynamic and alive.

Nikolaj: When a person working at the paint store told me that I could mix my own colors, I just thought then we’re doing that. It’s a lot more fun than just carrying the buckets home. I feel like it’s a memory or just a reflection of what's going on inside of us at the time we choose a color. If we had time and loved painting a bit more, I think we would be painting one room or the other every six months. It almost doesn’t matter what color it is, anything other than white walls. Your home shouldn’t look like an office.

The Panton lamp comes in a range of bright, expressive colors. How do you approach introducing bold color into your living environment?

Fie: I go by feeling. Some come instantly, others take their time.

Nikolaj: I don’t know. If an item has a clear purpose, color definitely comes second. A lot of lighting and furniture in our home are things that spoke to us or have sentimental value, something a friend made, my grandfather’s study lamp or a table my mother had in her room as a child.

Do you tend to choose color intuitively, or is it something you carefully consider

Fie: With so much color on the walls, other colored things can just join in. Nothing has to compete, and the space feels forgiving, open, welcoming, like home.

Nikolaj: Always intuition, a thought that all of a sudden makes sense when you see a specific color. There’s so much of life you have to be careful with, but choosing colors is not one of them.

Is there a particular color that holds a personal meaning or memory for you?

Fie: Yellow. Maybe because of the sun, maybe because it has this kind of genderless attitude. I don’t know… it’s both ugly and nice at the same time. I also like dandelions.

Nikolaj: Blue. Since I was a little child, my whole family almost camped at the beach for two months every year during summer. I learned to swim and dive there. We don’t do it anymore, but I often think about those days, the light, smell and the color of the sky.

What draws you to the Pantop lamp: the shape, the color, or the way it interacts with the space around it?

Fie: It looks like something Tinker Bell would have in her home.

Nikolaj: That it has the shape of a mushroom and that it’s a lamp. I have a soft spot for light.