Izumi’s newest Copenhagen restaurant is designed to mirror its Nordic-Japanese menu

Pan-Initiatives and Mok Architects drew upon Nordic and Japanese aesthetics to design this restaurant in Copenhagen, which options oak surfaces, translucent screens and paper lanterns.

Izumi is a Danish restaurant chain, which serves Japanese meals with Nordic influences. Its newest outlet occupies a busy road nook in Copenhagen’s northern suburb of Charlottenlund.

The 120-square-metre restaurant has an L-shaped plan with home windows that wrap round two sides.

An open kitchen and small eating space occupy one aspect of the restaurant, whereas a bigger eating room, buyer bogs and a small yard for parking occupies the opposite.

Copenhagen-based structure studio Pan- Initiatives was invited by Izumi, together with Mok Architects, to create a brand new spatial id for the chain.

Izumi’s house owners needed the restaurant’s inside to mirror its Nordic-Japanese menu.

“Japan and the Nordic international locations have a wealthy historical past of cultural interactions,” defined Pan-Initiatives’ founders Yurioko Yaga and Kazumasa Takada.

“Particularly within the subject of design, there are various examples which might be rooted initially in Japanese tradition but developed uniquely within the land of the Nordic area.”

Within the restaurant, that is mirrored in options such because the curved Scandinavian oak panels that encompass the open kitchen.

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In line with the architects, the modular panels adhere to a conventional Japanese dimension system used to make Japanese tatami mats.

The panels’ slight curve is impressed by steam-bent Scandinavian furnishings.

“As a design technique, we adopted Japanese spatial characters to the Scandinavian context, aiming to manufacture a brand new normal of Japan-Scandinavian design interactions,” Yaga and Takada stated.

A sequence of translucent screens constituted of a number of layers of sanded polycarbonate sheets are a up to date riff on conventional Japanese paper sliding doorways.

Isamu Noguchi, who was a New York-based Japanese sculptor, designed the Akari lanterns that cling above the tables, whereas the eating chairs are designed by London-based Japanese design studio Mentsen.

That is the third Izumi department that Pan-Initiatives has accomplished, becoming a member of two different outposts in Copenhagen’s Frederiksberg and Allerød neighbourhoods. Development is scheduled to start out on one other location in Vesterbrogade in 2020.

The restaurant is the newest in a string of eateries that mix Danish and Japanese design sensibilities.

In Tokyo, OEO Studio referenced Danish cabinetry and Japanese gardens for the design of restaurant Inua, whereas Norm Architects designed a sushi restaurant in London that options gong-like Japanese lamps and wide-plank Danish flooring.

Images is by Yuta Sawamura.

Venture credit:

Structure corporations: Pan-Initiatives and Mok Architects
Architects: Yuriko Yagi, Kazumasa Takada, Miki Morita, Suguru Kobayashi
Development and millworks: Indretningsfabrikken