Karen Henriksen is a milliner, artist and designer-maker. Her hat designs strike a balance between elegance, innovation and practicality, whilst her sculptural lightshades and wall pieces draw on her millinery and fashion background.

Karen works from her studio at Cockpit Bloomsbury in the heart of London, where she established her practice in 2005.

For Karen, inspiration can come from anywhere, finding beauty and elegance in the everyday. Her work incorporates story-telling, and a sense of ‘taking a line for a walk’ — whether through the intricate and asymmetric pattern-cutting of a hat, the undulating curves of a lightshade, or the not-quite repetition and spiralling abstraction in her new wall pieces.