Nadzieja restaurant in Poznań options understated Bauhaus-style interiors

Agnieszka Owsiany Studio labored to include key motifs of Bauhaus design into this Israeli restaurant, which has opened in Poznań, Poland.

Serving up a plant-based menu of Israeli-inspired dishes, Nadzieja has been accomplished with a vivid and heat inside that references sunny Tel Aviv and its abundance of Bauhaus structure.

Tel Aviv has over four,000 Bauhaus-style buildings that had been constructed by Jewish architects, who immigrated to the Israeli metropolis throughout 1930s because the Nazis got here into energy in Germany.

Agnieszka Owsiany Studio stored this in thoughts when devising the brand new fit-out of the restaurant, which had beforehand been an Asian udon eatery.

“The house had been very robust visually – darkish inexperienced partitions, a lot of patterns, supplies and a black-painted ceiling above all of it,” the studio’s founder, Agnieszka Owsiany, informed Dezeen.

“It was very heavy, so the house seemed a lot smaller. My first impression after I acquired there was that I needed to put as a lot gentle inside this house as potential.”

A number of partitions all through the 80 square-metre restaurant have been clad in easy white tiles, in a nod to the pale Bauhaus buildings that populate Tel Aviv – a characteristic which ultimately lent the vacation spot the time period of White Metropolis.

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Another surfaces have been painted gentle beige, whereas a white curtain serves as a backdrop to the group eating space.

“[The curtain] creates this sense of a small room contained in the open house, making it extra cosy,” defined the studio.

On the centre of the house is an extended desk with an eight-centimetre-thick picket countertop. It is surrounded by brown-leather chairs with tubular metal frames, echoing Bauhaus grasp Marcel Breuer’s well-known Wassily chair.

These chairs additionally seem in the primary eating room, the place there is a combination of seating choices – in addition to conventional low tables, there are additionally tall counters crafted from ivory granite and black bistro-style excessive chairs.

Home windows have been left curtain-less to let within the most quantity of pure gentle. Pendant lamps that dangle from the ceiling can be switched on as night falls and dimmed to foster a extra intimate atmosphere.

“Their chrome particulars and spherical shades made with white glass once more check with the Bauhaus type,” added the studio.

Numerous earth-toned ceramics crafted by Nadzieja’s proprietor have been slotted amongst the restaurant’s timber shelving items as decor.

Owsiany additionally used linen and wool to create a handful of artworks for the partitions.

This yr marks the 100th anniversary of the famend Bauhaus design college, which operated from 1919 till 1933.

The work produced by college students of the time – which embrace figures like Walter Gropius and Anni Albers – continues to affect a number of architects, designers and types at the moment.

Lara Bohinc seemed to the “pure but intricate” geometric minimalism of Bauhaus design to create a spread of tables, whereas ZigZagZurich emulated the varsity’s use of color and sample to provide a line of blankets.

To seek out out extra in regards to the Bauhaus, learn Dezeen’s information.