Vipp Cold Hawaii

Vipp Cold Hawaii sits alone in Thy National Park, Denmark's largest, in the small village of Vangså on the wild northwest coast. This stretch of Jutland is known as Cold Hawaii, a serious surf coast that draws wave-hunters from all over, with the town of Klitmøller a short drive away. It's bare, open country: dunes, moorland and long grass running to the sea, with no neighbours in sight. Nearby you'll find horse riding, mountain biking and the trails of the national park, and the well-known Michelin-listed restaurant Tri in Agger is about a 35-minute drive.

The house was once a simple fisherman's cottage from the early 1900s, one of many scattered along this coast, until the local architecture studio Hahn Lavsen rebuilt it into a modern guesthouse for Vipp. From the road it still looks like the old cottage; step closer and it reveals sharper, more geometric lines. Inside, the interior designer Julie Cloos Mølsgaard built the whole space around a Vipp kitchen, a large island in oak-backed cabinetry, treated almost like a centrepiece to cook at while looking out over the ocean. The palette throughout is sandy and warm, echoing the dunes outside. Three double bedrooms, two with a built-in bunk bed, sleep up to six. It runs as a self-service guesthouse, no reception or daily housekeeping, just a fully stocked kitchen and a Vipp team on call if needed. A private chef can also be booked for an evening in.