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Lønstrup is a popular home and holiday destination for artists, actors and actresses, composers and artisans. In Lønstrup's glassworks there are tropical temperatures all year round. The glass ovens operate at more than 1100 degrees Celsius. Lønstrup is also the domicile of the Nordic champion in pottery, who ended up in the town through a strange coincidence...
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Perhaps it's due to the light and the magnificent west coast scenery; perhaps it's the town's picturesque appearance; or perhaps it's the atmosphere and intimacy of the small fishing village nestling behind the dunes.
In any event, Lønstrup has been a popular home and holiday destination for artists, actors and actresses, composers and artisans for generations.
Red-hot glassThe town is characterised by this particular profile, and the main street, Strandvejen, is also a cornucopia of galleries, artists and craftsmen.
Here you can see how the red-hot glass is shaped by the glass-blower's tongs and pipe until it takes the form of a beautiful beer glass.
At the watercolour painter's studio you can see how a picture of the sea can be transformed into a colourful sunset by just a few expert brushstrokes.
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Transforming the clayYou can follow the transformation of the clay on the potter's wheel from a shapeless lump to an attractive bowl at close quarters.
You can also admire the jewellery artist's incredible precision when precious stones are carefully laid in place on a brooch.
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Pearls on a chain Strandvejen in Lønstrup is densely populated with glass-blowers, potters, jewellery artists, painters and galleries. You are also welcome to come in and get an insight into this creative universe at every turn.
Hot work In Lønstrup's glassworks there are tropical temperatures all year round. The glass ovens operate at more than 1100 degrees Celsius, something that causes the glass-blowers to sweat as they concentrate every day in front of the thundering ovens.
- Not least in the summer, when the tourists can take time out for a cool dip in the sea, it's hard work blowing the glass-blower's pipe eight hours a day, says Leif Vange, who is the owner of the town's first glassworks, Glashuset.
Leif Vange made his living as a potter for a couple of decades, but at the end of the 1980s he set up shop as a glass-blower in the former Linnemanns Hotel in Lønstrup.
Nordic champion in potteryLønstrup is the home town of no less a celebrity than the Nordic champion in pottery, Mogens Falkenberg, who is the owner of Lønstrup's biggest ceramics workshop, Keramoda.
In 1980 he established himself in Lønstrup with his own workshop, even though there was nothing in the cards that suggested that his destiny would be linked with clay.
Mogens Falkenberg is a qualified marine biologist, and it was in this capacity that he visited Lønstrup at the end of the 1970s. He was due to make an underwater film on the stone reefs off the coast of Lønstrup.
The film was completed and is still available, but meanwhile Mogens Falkenberg had fallen in love with pottery and Lønstrup.
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