In the Copenhagen surrounds a new path it is creating for the iconic Noma restaurant, awarded four times by restaurant magazine as “the best restaurant in the world”.
For chef and co-owner René Redzepi the most important consideration was to have a sense of place and for everything to feel handmade, the design drew on residential rather than hospitality with an emphasis on materials as the decoration. The overall mood is Scandinavian without any Nordic cliches, honest, simple and not over-designed.
The one-year project encompassed selecting materials and treatments for all floors, walls and ceilings, designing cabinetry and furniture including dining tables and chairs, designing and developing lighting, selecting and commissioning art works, buying vintage pieces at auction and online, and even creating a terrazzo floor of large river stones the shape of which you can feel when you walk on it with bare feet.

Everything is carefully selected, curated or designed and nothing screams more than the other. The whole thing has this sense of coherence and a very 360 degrees holistic approach,

says David Thulstrup.