Stephen Starr has recently opened their new restaurant, the Veronika, by the designers Roman and Williams. The new restaurant is located in the new Fotografiska New York, in the succinct stretch of Park Avenue South in Manhattan, where all the well-heeled eateries are, yet few can hold a candle to the neighborhood’s newest addition. The  restaurant is housed on the second floor of the new Fotografiska New York, the Big Apple outpost (and the first in the US) of the Stockholm-based centre for photography.
The designers have paid tribute to Europe’s grand cafes while also evoking the moody tones and textures of the photographic medium, with a gestalt of light, form and composition. In the dining rooms, grandiose ceiling heights and brass crown-like chandeliers bring a palatial feel to the space, while a soft, natural color palette and pale oak floors are juxtaposed by flattened wood arches, detailed with wood trim edges, which mimic enfilades from the early 19th to mid-20th centuries. Finally, the curved mohair seating and custom egg-shaped lamps adorning each marble tabletop making the place looking like it’s from another era.