“Blueness” is Filled with Designer Details

A light installation by designer Germans Ermičs, a futuristic waiters station by studio Destroyers Builders, and tatami blinds by artist Mae Englegeer all element inside this new Antwerp cafe. Named Blueness, the style of the place has been overseen by Danish studio Area Copenhagen in collaboration with chef and restaurateur Sergio Herman. All over, the staff sought to marry present-day detailing with the historic inside architecture, which dates back again to the 17th century.

Blueness is located in Antwerp’s trend district, around the corner from the boutiques of Louis Vuitton and Rimowa. When browsing the setting up, the staff at Space Copenhagen was impressed by its renaissance fashion, which was abundant in grandeur, and aimed to pull it into the present day through the use of a fashionable Scandinavian style and design aesthetic.

They partly went about this by enlisting the assist of designers and artists, to develop fixtures and installations that would offer a duality among the old and new. In the dining place, gentle is delivered via the sculptural “Candlelight Chandelier”, which has been solid in brass by artist Valentin Loellmann and features 4 disc-formed arms on which groups of candles are positioned. Latvian designer Germans Ermičs – whose early get the job done integrated the “Ombré Chair” – has established 4 parts for the area. The initial is located by the main staircase and, in his signature aesthetic, moves from darker to lighter tones as attendees vacation in direction of the basement. In there, they will come across the remaining installations, which see vibrant lights at the rear of the building’s outdated wrought metallic bars.

Back upstairs, Dutch artist Mae Englegeer has crafted bespoke tatami drapes for the window, whilst a personalized bar by Destroyers Builders has been manufactured from deep crimson walnut wood and options comfortable curves on its edges. The Brussels and Antwerp-primarily based studio also created the metal bar and a futuristic waiter’s station in forged aluminium. In the course of the building, home furniture built by Place Copenhagen for a variety of brand names is employed – from the “Loafer” dining chairs for &Custom, upholstered in sand-colored canvas, to substantial bar stools for Frederica Home furniture.

Area Copenhagen co-founder, Signe Bindslev Henriksen mentioned:

“More than everything this challenge has been shaped by a sequence of extremely intuitive procedures, from our quite initially feelings about the style and design of the cafe, carried via to the close consequence.

The layout course of action has been fueled by the fragmented record of the 17th-century renaissance building and the ongoing dialogue in between the group and the commissioned artists central to the remaining style and design.”

In other places in layout news, Studio Ossidiana has designed a floating artwork gallery for the Dutch metropolis of Almere.

Blueness
Lange Gasthuisstraat 11
2000 Antwerpen, Belgium