Located in the undulating fields of just one of Sweden’s largest vineyards, the Michelin-starred ÄNG cafe is created by Norm Architects and furnished by Japanese brand Karimoku to produce a stimulating interplay between architecture, food, wine, interiors, and art – a culinary expertise out of the ordinary that engages all senses.
The expertise of ÄNG begins with a winding pathway major by means of the lush meadow to the glowing glasshouse that stands as a present day and refined interpretation of a greenhouse turned within out. A modest herb garden out entrance discloses the neighborhood contact and approach to the culinary experience, and exterior stone flooring proceeds inside where by there is an open kitchen area with a grounding stone counter.
Solid wooden lounge household furniture by Karimoku functions obvious woodworking specifics and smooth upholstery. Talented Norwegian artist Anders Pfeffer Gjengedal (Løvfall) has made 7 picket and stone sculptures with an natural style and design language. In addition, Danish designer, Sara Martinsen, contributed with bespoke artworks that carry further heat and new stimuli to the area.
“With the new interior design and style thought for ÄNG, Karimoku has effectively accomplished its sixth scenario study, continuing the collaboration with Norm Architects and
Keiji Ashizawa Design. With inspiration discovered in equally the unspoiled Nordic mother nature bordering the premises of ÄNG and Japanese sensibilities in design and style aesthetics and craftsmanship, the inside gives a holistic, sensory expertise that refines the culinary supplying and demonstrates the identification of the cafe.”
—Frederik Werner, Norm Architects & Artistic Director for Karimoku
Linked by a shared belief in timeless aesthetics and an ambition to make goods that meet day to day desires, Norm collaborated with Swedish layout studio
Bonni Bonne to build a curated variety of tableware for the cafe. In purchase to emphasize ÄNG’s strong link with nature, elements of the selection are designed from green wood – an historical woodworking strategy that makes natural silhouettes and raw textures great for the atmosphere in the restaurant.
Tiles slash like a brick floor foster the cave-like experience of the wine cellar. These are achieved with a picket floor from Danish manufacturer Dinesen in the major eating home, the place there are flooring-to-ceiling sights of a purely natural lake and the loaded fauna bordering it.
“With the changing of mild, we enjoy on the phenomenon of Chiaroscuro a strategy from visual arts utilized to symbolize light and shadow as they outline objects in order to accomplish a feeling of volume. When stepping into the shadows, the vision weakens even though the remaining senses intensify. A person immediately pays more awareness to sounds, smells, preferences and contact and even the instinct and intuition are strengthened. This way, the surprising changeover and transforming of landscapes get ready the guests for the following part of the holistic supper encounter.” —Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen, Norm Architects
Impressed by the Japanese Karesansui gardens of raked sand and stone, renowned for their transcendent elegance, Norm travelled to Växjö to collect the ready-manufactured sculptures of nature from a huge quarry. Smaller vases that seem like stones from the field are a way of translating Swedish nature and its aesthetics in an sincere and modern way.
“In addition to references to Swedish character and the use of renowned Japanese household furniture design and style, we carried out acoustic partitions made of canvas from
Kvadrat, picked in a shade reminiscent of jute sacks in which you place crops and grain. It’s not just a backdrop, but a authentic encounter.”
—Frederik Werner, Norm Architects
Crammed with curated sculptures and ceramics by
Viki Weiland and
Ulla Bang, the cabinets in the open kitchen incorporate a private and heat atmosphere to the striking room – creating a potent coherence amongst food stuff, art, style and architecture.
As the evening moves on and the color scheme of mother nature turns even more lively, the colors of the selected supplies in the restaurant feel to adjust with it the oakwood obtains a red tone and the open kitchen area in gray stone appears softer. The night ends again in the glass property, in which the encounter comes whole circle as the solar has set when the desserts are becoming served. ÄNG truly is a venue enabling each attendees and employees to explore, discover, elaborate and build memories.
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