Rune Bruun Johansen, 44, is a furniture designer and Nordic modern furniture dealer based in Copenhagen. He has designed pieces for the Danish prime minister’s official residence and worked with chef Frederik Bille Brahe to redesign the Apollo Bar and Kantine at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

How much sleep did you get last night?
About three to five hours. I have a newborn son and he was awake most of the night.

How much did you want to get?
A few more hours. I normally sleep six to eight. But I’m not a big sleeper and don’t take naps.

What did you do with your evening?
We went for a long walk with the stroller around the lakes and the park, just talking about life, and then bought groceries.

What do you keep on your bedside table?
Too many things. It’s a mess. Everything from my pockets—bills, coins, keys—and a watch. I also have a photograph of my girlfriend when she was a child and a drawing that my daughter made for me. I’m very much into poetry and just gave my girlfriend a book of poems by Inger Christensen. We also have a book about the Chelsea Hotel in New York.

When did you last stay up all night?
My friend’s wedding about a year and a half ago. I was the best man with two other guys and we stayed up long after dawn.

What’s the best place you’ve spent the night?
Architect Tadao Ando’s Benesse House Oval, on the Japanese island of Naoshima. It was so beautiful. Also, my father and I slept in a monastery on the Greek peninsula of Athos, and were woken by bells.

And the strangest?
When I was 18, on the floor of my friend the photographer Thomas Loof’s apartment in Chinatown, in New York, with mice running around me.