Plant a motley crew of creatives from Copenhagen on a rocky but fertile island in the Baltic Sea and you’ll end up with the kind of artisanal scene currently booming on Bornholm. It’s not difficult to understand why the Danish isle, located just south of Sweden and otherwise filled with farmers and fishermen, appeals to urbanites: Here, windswept beaches of sand so fine it’s literally used in hourglasses give way to rolling, grassy fields dotted with thatch-roofed farmhouses. Then there are the charming port towns complete with traditional wooden smokehouses, ceramics ateliers and ice cream parlors.

Bornholm has been a popular destination since the mid-1800s, especially with German travelers, but the last five years have seen its revival, thanks largely to the pioneering trio behind the celebrated Nordic restaurant Kadeau. Childhood friends and Bornholm natives Nicolai Norregaard and Rasmus Kofoed opened the restaurant on the island’s southern coast a decade ago. (They were soon joined by Rasmus’s brother, Magnus.) The second location, in Copenhagen, was awarded a Michelin star in 2013. The worldwide attention both inspired other local producers, from candy makers to fabric designers, and encouraged certain visitors from the mainland to imagine making their own lives on the island, which has a population of just under 40,000. ‘‘If you look at it from a Danish point of view,’’ says Michael Staginnus, a Copenhagen expat with a vintage furniture store in the idyllic fishing village of Svaneke, ‘‘Bornholm is the most exotic place we’ve got.’’ He recommends coming in early fall, when the crowds thin but the Mediterranean temperatures persist, and the skies stay bright well into the evening.