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      Spacon & X creates casual diner for Noma's burger spinoff POPL

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      Prolific Copenhagen restaurant Noma has opened a burger joint featuring an interior filled with natural materials and plants designed by Spacon & X.Born out of a summer pop-up, POPL is a diner in Copenhagen’s pretty Christianshavn neighbourhood, serving a simple menu of burgers, fries and light bites.
      POPL is designed by Danish studio Spacon & X, the Emerging Interior Designer of the Year from the inaugural Dezeen Awards in 2018.

      POPL is a burger joint in Christianshavn, Copenhagen

      The interior design takes cues from Izakaya, informal drinking venues that can be found in Japan. The aim was to create a raw simplicity but to also create a feeling of warmth and comfort.
      The designers did this with the use of warm colours and materials, which contrast the starkness of the building’s concrete structure. They also added a wooden “plant bridge” above the tables, so that greenery is visible everywhere.

      A plant bridge is suspended above the tables
      “We found it a natural decision that the design concept follows Noma’s approach to the burger: simple, welcoming, and with the best quality ingredients,” explained Malene Hvidt, architect and partner at Spacon & X.
      “The design is welcoming to the extent that guests are not afraid to use the space as a hangout,” she told Dezeen. “The surface materials and careful detailing communicate this through their expressive robustness and honesty.”

      Natural materials feature throughout the interior
      The design centres around the use of natural materials. Acoustic ceiling panels are lined with dried and compressed meadow flowers, which offer a delicate fragrance, while paper lights and artworks are dotted around.
      All of the furniture is made from brown core ash wood. These pieces were all designed bespoke for POPL through a collaboration with furniture brand e15, to help give the restaurant its own identity.

      Spacon & X worked with e15 to create bespoke furniture
      Bespoke tables, chairs, stools, benches and coat hangers are all characterised by simple forms that celebrate the construction joints, fusing Nordic, Japanese and American furniture-making traditions.
      Tables are topped with Richlite, a composite material made from recycled paper and bio-resin. Meanwhile, benches are upholstered in a distinctive yellow leather, which is complemented a tactile red artwork that covers the rear wall.

      Warm tones help to create a cosy atmosphere
      “The focus of this project is on the use of natural materials and craftsmanship,” said e15 founder Philipp Mainzer. “This is very much in line with the approach to our work at e15.”

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      “Every surface tells a story,” added Hvidt, “like the compressed flower acoustic board solutions, which from a distance are a dappled colour but up-close reveal their texture and scent. Or the red artwork, celebrating the handcraft skill of applying tile mortar.”

      Benches are upholstered in yellow leather
      This is the first time that Spacon & X and e15 have collaborated with Noma, which is regularly named as one of the best restaurants in the world. For Noma’s main venue, it worked with architects BIG, interior designer David Thulstrup and furniture brand Brdr Krüger.
      By allowing a new creative team to put their stamp on the Noma aesthetic, POPL hopes to reach a wider audience.

      The design takes its cues from Japan’s Izakaya drinking venues
      Hvidt hopes visitors will liken the experience to the casual atmosphere of an American diner, even though the space looks very different.
      “We have definitely brought a new dialect to the Noma language,” she added.
      “The nuanced American diner feel is created through elements such as the heavy diner booth typology, but the association is then offset through the care put into the material sourcing, detailing and craftsmanship. The striking yet natural colours again play with the American diner tradition in a Scandinavian context.”
      Photography is by Bjørn Bertheussen.

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      Frama creates ultra-minimal interiors for Juno the Bakery in Copenhagen

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      Multidisciplinary studio Frama has finished this bakery in Copenhagen with off-white walls and terrazzo floors, allowing the bread loaves and pastries on offer to take centre stage.Juno the Bakery is situated in the city’s Østerbro neighbourhood, taking over the ground floor of a five-storey residential building.

      Top image: the bakery’s entryway. Above: a steel-framed counter features in the service area
      The popular bakery was originally located a couple of doors down in a shop unit that measured just 35 square metres, but staff had come to find it too difficult to work in such constricted conditions.
      This new location – which is a much more generous 120 square metres – has been designed by Frama with an open layout that fosters a “natural dialogue” between customer and staff areas, bringing the art of baking to the forefront.

      A glass box on top of the counter displays baked goods

      “The vision for the new Juno spaces was to create a seamless interlink between the traditional craft of baking and a contemporary culinary experience,” said Frama’s founder, Niels Støyer Christophersen.
      “Having more space to move is something that we’ve all looked forward to for a long time,” added Juno the Bakery’s co-founder, Emil Glaser.
      “Now, in the new space – which has a really thoughtful plan for production and movement – we can all be more efficient and more comfortable. It’s really amazing how much of a difference a few more square meters can make.”

      Customers can gather to eat around a cork and marble dining table
      Inside, the bakery is loosely split into three different zones. Beside the entryway is a service area where customers make their orders. It’s anchored by a steel-framed wooden counter, atop of which is a glass box where bread loaves, buns and Danish pastries are displayed.
      Adjacently lies a seating area, dressed with one of Frama’s Sintra dining tables – featuring a chunky cork base and a slim, round countertop crafted from yellow-tinged marble. Steel versions of the studio’s geometric Triangolo chairs have also been scattered around, along with a couple of strip lights.

      Oak doors inset with glass look through into the baking room
      Full-height oak doors inset with expansive panels of glass allow customers to peek through to the baking room, where goods headed for the oven are kept on silver-metal trolleys.
      The room’s large windows also mean passersby on the street will be able to get a glimpse of the bakers at work.

      Walls in the baking room are clad with limestone tiles
      Walls here have been clad with Mediterranean limestone tiles, unlike in the customer-dedicated areas of the bakery where surfaces have been painted a shade of eggshell white. Grey terrazzo flooring runs throughout.
      “When approaching the project we delved into an in-depth material case study, to understand what could coexist with the crafted baked goods and as well compliment them in tones and textures, according to the many artisanal processes they undergo,” added Christophersen.

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      Outdoors, there’s an extra seating area. There are plans to eventually connect the old and new sites of Juno the Bakery, allowing even more room for customers to eat-in.

      The bakery also includes an outdoor dining area
      A minimalist aesthetic permeates all of the furniture pieces, skincare items and interiors created by Frama, which has been established since 2011.
      Other projects by the studio include The Slow, a pared-back concept store in Beirut that features lime-washed walls and concrete display fixtures.

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      Yvonne Koné's pink-tinged interiors reference Tuscan buildings

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      Tuscany’s “sun-faded” buildings informed the interior of this pared-back accessories boutique in Copenhagen, which Danish brand St Leo has washed with soft-pink plaster. Yvonne Koné is tucked away down a side street in Copenhagen’s Gammelholm neighbourhood and offers a selection of leather shoes, bags and small accessories. After embarking on an inspiring trip to Tuscany […] More

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      Fritz Hansen completes revamp of Danish HQ

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      Furniture brand Fritz Hansen has revamped its headquarters in eastern Denmark, creating a sequence of homely spaces that cater to the diverse work methods of its employees. The HQ is located on the edge of a forest in the municipality of Allerød, next to the site of Fritz Hansen’s now-defunct sawmill. Workspaces are spread across […] More

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      Pink-tinted kitchen appears in Copenhagen's Designers Remix showroom

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      The rosy hues of a make-up palette partially informed the colour scheme of this pared-back fashion showroom in Copenhagen, which has been updated by Danish brand Reform. The showroom belongs to Danish fashion brand Designers Remix, which was founded in 2002 by married duo Charlotte and Niels Eskildsen. The brand uses existing resources to create its […] More

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      Elements inside Copenhagen restaurant Hverdagen are made from a single Douglas fir tree

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      Douglas fir-wood fixtures and furnishings feature throughout this Copenhagen restaurant, which local studio Vermland has designed to have a cosy, familial atmosphere. Hverdagen offers an entirely organic menu and is situated in Kødbyen – a part of Copenhagen’s Meatpacking District which is populated by a host of contemporary art galleries, breweries and trendy restaurants set […] More