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A modern restaurant interior featuring wooden tables, soft lighting from sculptural pendant lamps, and grey curtains.

Sergey Makhno Architects

June 27, 2016

Mindsparkle Mag

Ibsen Fish Restaurant

Sergey Makhno Architects created an authentic Scandinavian restaurant, where even the walls will have a fish-like smell. They had an acute strategy: to make Scandinavia on Mechnikov Street, Kiev. To Nordic elements we added the wabi-sabi – the style we are developing in Ukraine. As a result, the restrained interior with the emphasis put on naturalness. Simplicity and asymmetry are the hallmarks of it. The concept defined the main materials to work: wood (ash), concrete, marble, copper. Wood is a double target hit. First, we like it. Secondly, it is difficult to imagine Scandinavia without wood. Ash panels (veneered) connect a floor with a ceiling. Transitions were wisely planned to zone the space. The client said that he would serve only the "first water" oysters. We solved the problem by the RAW-bar, a semantic point of the ground floor. No aquariums with half-dead fishes. The fish is good not only for eating, but also for looking at. Food for the eyes – pictures on the walls and closets (like inhabitants of the northern countries dо). Everything says: "delicious!"

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