Copenhagen’s Yaffa restaurant takes cues from bustling French cafes

Multi-disciplinary design studio Frama used mismatched wood chairs and concrete surfaces to create a Center Japanese model of the common-or-garden French bistro inside this Copenhagen restaurant.

Set inside Copenhagen’s historic Gråbrødretorv sq., Yaffa has been remodeled from a characterless concrete basement right into a heat and welcoming house decked out in tactile supplies.

The restaurant takes its identify from the traditional port metropolis in Tel Aviv and provides a Center East-inspired menu, in addition to a bunch of dishes that make use of Mediterranean elements.

Regionally based mostly Frama – which additionally produces minimalist furnishings, lighting and skincare – had been tasked with creating the interiors, focusing first on the slender fundamental eating room.

Tables with sand-blasted marble counter tops have been carefully nestled collectively alongside the room’s peripheries in an try by the studio to create the identical bustling environment as a quaint French cafe.

Some tables are surrounded by Frama’s 01 chair, hand-stained a nut-brown color for a extra “basic” look, whereas others are accompanied by classic Hongisto chairs by Finnish furnishings model Artek and 69 chairs by architect Alvar Aalto.

There are additionally a few timber seating cubicles to accommodate bigger teams of diners, softly illuminated by vintage-glass wall sconces.

Bistro-style tiled flooring runs all through the house.

“A big a part of the design temporary from the shopper is that they didn’t need the place to look too neat or recent and one of many methods we achieved that is via utilizing completely different chairs,” the studio’s head designer, Cassandra Bradfield, defined to Dezeen.

“We additionally wished friends to have the ability to sit in several environments – one the place you’ll be able to look and see every part taking place, some a bit extra personal, some fully open, and others closed off.”

An adjoining bar space is anchored by an enormous concrete service counter painted with umber, pale-yellow and navy kinds. Company stopping by for a fast drink can sit right here on high-back wood stool seats additionally designed by Frama.

The studio opted to maintain the entire house’s present rough-concrete surfaces, freshening them up with a coat of sandy-beige or moss-green mineral paint.

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“I might say quite a lot of our merchandise are born from a contextual want – when designing interiors, we all the time take a look at the particular website and the present structure,” Bradfield added.

“In that sense, we’re much less concept-driven as a lot as material-driven. I feel it’s most vital to create environments which are layered, but in addition fairly easy and approachable.”

Frama labored with London designer Louisa Gray earlier this 12 months to create an set up based mostly on the physique’s 5 senses that was displayed contained in the studio’s Copenhagen HQ, which occupies a 19th-century apothecary.