A Table For Rest
Eat Well
One evening - not long ago - in the heart of Copenhagen, within our studio on Bredgade, twenty guests from LVMH / Belmond’s leadership team gathered around a long, candlelit table. Together with our friend, chef Frederik Bille Brahe, we designed a menu rooted in the philosophy that what we eat shapes how we sleep.
Each dish was composed to calm both body and mind, with late-summer tomatoes and plums offering a touch of natural melatonin, pistachios rich in sleep-promoting nutrients, and almonds and mushrooms providing grounding minerals such as magnesium.
Instead of wine, we served infusions in the most beautiful mouth-blown, poetic glassware from Akua Objects, valerian root with sour cherry, cucumber with grape and celery, drinks that comforted rather than stimulated.
Every element reflected Frederik’s approach to food: local, seasonal, intuitive and respectful. When nothing is wasted - peel, seed, leaf and all - food becomes an act of care. Each dish was served on hand-turned ceramic plates from Louise Roe, their tactile simplicity echoing the quiet sophistication of the evening.
Sleep Well
As the meal unfolded, conversation turned to the art of rest. I spoke of the beginnings of The Beauty Sleeper - how a simple silk sleep mask, born from my own search for stillness, evolved into a world dedicated to the rituals of sleep.
We reflected on Hans Christian Andersen, who once blessed the very house where we gathered, and on Ole Lukoie, his bringer of dreams. In Andersen’s story, good children fall asleep beneath an umbrella of colour, while the restless ones lie awake beneath a blank canopy.
Sleep, too, is like that - when we nurture ourselves with care, our nights are vivid and restorative; when we neglect our needs, rest eludes us.
“What we put on our plates,” I reminded our guests, “is, in the end, what we put into our dreams.”
Dream Softly
To close the evening, each guest received a small turn-down tray inspired by Belmond’s world of timeless hospitality, a chamomile infusion, a delicate midnight snack of pear, walnut and dark chocolate, and a bespoke silk sleep mask embroidered with their initials, created especially for each guest by The Beauty Sleeper. The dreamy, hand-woven, scalloped wicker trays were the perfect finishing touch, crafted by our neighbours at Mith Cph.
As the final act, our dear friend Vivi Schmidt, therapist and sound healer, guided everyone through a gentle sound bath. With their new silk masks resting softly over their eyes, our guests were led into deep calm, their breathing slowing, the room bathed in resonance and stillness.
It was a moment suspended between waking and sleep, where science met story, and luxury became something entirely human: care, quiet and presence.
Across the world, luxury hospitality is entering a new era, one where rest itself becomes the destination.
A Table for Rest was not merely a dinner, but a meditation on modern wellbeing - a reminder that beauty begins with sleep, and that slowing down is, perhaps, the finest indulgence of all.
At The Beauty Sleeper, this belief continues to guide everything I create, from our handcrafted silk masks to the rituals that surround them. Each piece is designed to bring calm to the night and a little more beauty to the day.
Because when we rest well, everything else - our energy, our creativity, our dreams - begins to bloom again.