In Copenhagen’s Refshaleøen neighbourhood, a easy 72 sq m greenhouse – beforehand the edge friends crossed earlier than coming into Noma (René Redzepi’s three-Michelin-starred culinary sanctum) – has been remodeled by OEO Studio into Noma Tasks Taste Store.
The challenge introduced a really up to date problem: translate flavour itself, and the laboratory mentality of one of many world’s most experimental kitchens, into bodily type?
OEO Studio designs Noma Tasks Taste Store
(Picture credit score: Courtesy of Noma Tasks)
‘René was very particular about what he didn’t need,’ explains OEO Studio co-founder Thomas Lykke. ‘He didn’t desire a conventional store or café. He wished one thing that captures the laboratory ambiance, in addition to the playfulness, the quirkiness, the nerdiness, and particularly the power of experimentation.’
The result’s a research in contrasts, each materials and conceptual. The place Noma the restaurant orchestrates a fastidiously timed sequential expertise, the store is extra casual and invitations searching by means of the complete pantry of Noma Tasks and Noma Kaffe, to take pleasure in within the store or to take residence. Consistent with a very Danish sensibility that prizes substance over spectacle and practicality over ornament, there’s nothing performative right here: OEO Studio has created an area that’s concurrently uncooked and refined, permitting the supplies to talk with out shouting.
(Picture credit score: Courtesy of Noma Tasks)
(Picture credit score: Courtesy of Noma Tasks)
Paradise granite from Bornholm anchors the fabric palette in three separate therapies: jet-burned, honed, and chiselled. ‘It’s the identical stone, simply handled otherwise,’ Lykke says. ‘You nearly really feel they’re completely different stones. It’s a bit like how Noma treats uncooked substances to create flavour: relying on what you do with it, it has a definite expression.’
The parallel between culinary and materials transformation runs all through: burnt bricks present heat, Douglas fir handled with linseed oil provides a delicate blue, and hairline stainless-steel and brushed aluminium introduce a cooler, extra technical and industrial contact.
(Picture credit score: Courtesy of Noma Tasks)
(Picture credit score: Courtesy of Noma Tasks)
Most putting, nonetheless, is the contradiction between high-tech circularity and conventional craft. Bespoke glass jars by Danish workshop Holmegaard Værk, designed with a laboratory end however a handmade really feel, sit beneath Terra pendant lamps made out of Matek, a sustainable materials product of espresso shell and wooden waste combined with recycled e-waste.
‘We each have an obsession concerning the crafted really feel together with know-how,’ says Lykke, ‘and the distinction makes it attention-grabbing.’
The centrepiece is an extra-long show desk, like a responsive scientific specimen presentation, softened due to OEO’s juxtaposition of heat, tactile supplies in opposition to the cooler, extra technical ones. A sculptural pendant with what Lykke describes as an atomic plant aesthetic provides an unexpectedly high-tech accent, its mild creating an otherworldly glow.
(Picture credit score: Courtesy of Noma Tasks)
(Picture credit score: Courtesy of Noma Tasks)
Nevertheless, the design’s most memorable side could also be its newfound openness. The greenhouse reveals the backyard, lake, and glimpses of Noma itself, marking a shift in how the restaurant engages with town past its eating room. ‘It’s open to all people. You may stroll by, go in, contact, go into the backyard, have a espresso,’ Lykke says.
This accessibility represents a brand new chapter for Noma, one which displays its continuous evolution and ingenious new espresso programme, which options six baristas and their very own in-house roasting operation, in addition to an interesting number of objects from the Noma Tasks pantry.
‘They’re taking espresso to the identical stage as their meals,’ says Lykke.
Noma Tasks Taste Store is open Tuesday-Sunday, 9 am to six pm, and till 7 pm on Fridays. It’s positioned at Refshalevej 96, 1432 Indre By, Denmark.
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