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Andersen S Company Gallery
Located in the heart of one of Copenhagen's upcoming areas, Islands Brygge, this gallery represents some of the biggest names in Danish art, including Olafur Eliasson.
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Antikhallen
If you're looking for a knick-knack to take back (or something bigger), this is one of the best antique furniture and bric-a-brac shops in an excellent antique area, with a wide range of styles and periods.
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Bang & Olufsen
For sleek, top-priced audio and televisual equipment, it's hard to go past this über-stylish brand. The shop itself is a hi-tech marvel that has design nuts drooling.
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Birger Christensen
The city's pre-eminent upscale clothing store sells a wide range of Danish and international brands for both men and women, including Prada, Chanel and YSL. Known in Denmark for its furs.
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Bitte Kai Rand
Ask many Copenhagen women over 30 for one of their favourite addreses and the name of this veteran of the Danish fashion scene will invariably crop up. Rand presents six collections a year of sophisticated, chic and very, very beautiful clothing.
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Bruuns Bazaar
Now an internationally recognised fashion label selling archetypal, contemporary Scandinavian style around the world, this is where the men's and women's Bruuns Bazaars began - they also stock other well known brands.
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Bülow
Stine Bülow is one of the city's best independent contemporary jewellers. Her studio-shop is tucked away behind Højbro Plads and is thus easy to miss if you don't know it's there. Her delicate, original earrings, rings, necklaces and bracelets skilfully blend metals and precious stones, abstract and often with a rough-edge finish to surprisingly sophisticated effect.
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Casa Shop
One of the major - and most expensive - furniture and homewear stores in the city, packed full of modern, international (well, mostly Italian) brands beloved of the childless and well-heeled.
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Casimose
Tina Casimose and Maiken Charlotte Bang offer one of the most consistent collections of womenswear on Nansensgade - the kind of clothing that is defining the Copenhagen look, with bold mix-and-match fabrics and patterns.
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Chapeaux Petitgas
A hat makes the perfect souvenir. This timewarp gentlemen's milliners has been here since Hans Christian Andersen's time and is perfect for your traditional headwear needs.
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Dansk Design Center
The Dansk Design Center's lobby gift shop sells a variety of intriguing items. In addition to books, magazines and posters, it stocks contemporary objects by leading Danish designers such as a stainless steel salad set designed by Arne Jacobsen, a cream pitcher by Ursula Munch-Petersen and glass bowls by Anja Kjær.
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Dansk Møbelkunst
Filled with the very best of 20th-century Scandinavian furniture and design, this excellent shop had us wondering: 'would they mind if we moved in?'.
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Day Birger Mikkelsen
The magnificent flagship store for this leading Danish brand is right in the heart of the mainstream fashion district with the equally excellent Designers Remix just across the way. Birger's clothes are ultra desirable - elegant, feminine, classic, sexy with just a hint of hippy (and that's just the menswear). Designer Malene Birger's own shop (she is no longer part of the Day group) is just around the corner.
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Designer Zoo
Denmark's renowned design mojo finds its contemporary home at this super-cool interior and fashion complex at the unfashionable end of Vesterbrogade. Here, fashion and furniture designers, as well as ceramic artists and glass blowers, work and sell their highly desirable, limited-edition creations.
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Drud & Køppe
A remarkable gallery of amusing, intriguing, frustrating and eye-opening contemporary art awaits behind the unassuming door to this new gallery, just off the courtyard entrance to Kunstindustrimuseet. Curators Birgitte Drud and Bettina Køppe assemble regularly changing collections of one-off or limited edition contemporary pieces by leading local artists as well as international guest artists. Tends towards the more playful, commercial pieces.
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Fajanceriet
For plates and vases and all things fragile, this adorable contemporary ceramic shop stocks the highly collectible work of local designers and is located just off Elmegade.
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Filippa K
This is Swedish designer Filippa Kihlborg's flagship Danish store, selling her simple, modern, often monochromatic men's and women's ranges - both day-to-day stuff and more dressy partywear.
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Fjeld & Fritid
If you're heading off the beaten track and need some gizmos to keep you company, this outdoor supplies store is one of the best in the game. If you're a walker, cyclist, climber, kayaker or just like camping you'll find a gadget for just about every situation and weather condition imaginable.
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Frederiksen
Lise Frederiksen's super-feminine clothing boutique is just one of several new fashion shops on what used to be thought of as the city's top antiques street. She is joined by Dico (Ravnsborggade 21), Stig P (Ravnsborggade 18), Riktigt (Ravnsborggade 17c) and the groovy gift shop Kiertner (Ravnsborggade 10a) in the ongoing funkification of this area.
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Frogeye
If walking about town is making you hate the look (and smell) of your shoes, head for one of the grooviest shoe shops in the city, with a wide range of Camper footwear always in stock.
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Frydendahl
Jan Frydendahl has been scouring the world for beautiful and quirky home design items for 30 years and his shop sells an eclectic and fascinating range of products; everything from chandeliers to watering cans spills out onto the pavement in front of his store.
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Fünf
This gorgeous women's clothing store on trendy Elmegade stocks up-to-the-second ranges from several local designers. There are several of these kind of nouveau-garde fashion boutiques nearby, including Goggle, Resteröds, Bark, Cappalis and, just around the corner on Guldbergsgade, Weiz.
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GAD Bookstore
An excellent range of Danish- and English-language titles, plus plenty of guidebooks, in a central location.
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Galerie Asbæk
Martin Asbæk has been at the centre of Copenhagen's contemporary art establishment for over 30 years and represents top local artists as well as some major names from overseas. He also sells slightly more affordable books and posters.
