The Finefood restaurant and coffee shop serves well cooked everyday food and pastries for the inhabitants of Hammarby Sjöstad (an exciting new district in Stockholm where the City has imposed tough environmental requirements on buildings, technical installations and the traffic environment, from day one.) in the south of Stockholm.
As Note states: “For this interior we were inspired by a beautiful photo series of the misty Death Valley by Jordan Sullivan, capturing the subtle variation and soft color changes of daylight that turns the harsh landscape into a poetic, inspiring place”.
One of the challenges designing the place is the fact it being a mix of a café, lunch restaurant and bistro. It must work just as well serving breakfast at 7am in the morning as serving beer 7pm in the evening.
As a Swedish design studio leaning on our minimalistic heritage, we created a clean, soft space with a calm, inviting color palette. The base of the interior is a custom made herringbone tile floor representing the rich gray scales of rocks and mountains.
The color palette – ranging from the deep green marble to various nuances of pale green and turquoise with contrasting salmon red and peach – are a direct translation of the colorful variations of the natural light in the mountains.
The materials used in Finefood are typical Scandinavian such as light ash wood, brass and natural leather except for the Green Guatemala marble used some part of the design.
Tables, sofas and shelves are specially designed for this project giving it its own unique identity. Over the custom made furnitures we have used – our own ceramic lighting Fuse for Ex-t (IT), lacquered wooden chairs from Zilio Aldo (IT), slick floor tiles from Mutina (IT) and a few really nice brass wall lights from Atelier Areti (UK) to top things off.
Photo by: Note
In collaboration with : www.lerch.se
Client: www.finefood.se
Dimensions: 200 sq meters
Link Images: FineFood_2014
About Note Design Studio:
Note is a Stockholm based design studio founded in 2008.
To note something, to get noted: we are named after what we try to achieve. We like to pay attention to our surrounding, and try to create things that make others to do that as well. By looking at what is unique in every project and emphasizing that, we transform non-material values into tactile objects and spaces. We work within the fields of architecture, interiors, products, graphic design and design management. Maybe we can help you out.
Us: Alexis Holmqvist, Susanna Wåhlin, Johannes Carlström, Kristoffer Fagerström and Cristiano Pigazzini.
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