The story of Fish is told in several layers of the interior of the restaurant. Big transparant icons are placed on the long wall, these and other icons are also hand painted by 'the Harlinger tilefabric' on the handmade tiles in the bar and toilets. A huge lamp made of ceramic roof-ridges hangs above the bar, on which a codfish is painted. The general lighting is formed by pin armatures, with felt fish scales stringed up to them; this way the light is filtered as wel as the lamps supply better acoustics.
The herringbone pattern of the wooden wall transforms into mirror tiles. The same harringbone pattern can be found on barfloor; in front of the bar completed in wood, behind the bar completed in handmade tiles with the same size.
Project: Visaandeschelde
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Program: restaurant
Assignment: interior design for a existing restaurant
Status: realisation may 2011
Size: 150 m2
Client: Michiel Deenik
Design: Studio Modijefsky i.c.w. Studio Molen
Execution: Hekker interieurbouw
Photography: Leon Hendrickx
Publications:
- VENUEZ 27
- MTC febr/march 2012
- EH-I january 2012
- EH-I website february 2012
- Financial Times March 2011
- NRC Weekend 26 March 2011
- Vision nr 9 2011
As designers we are driven by a love for beauty. Beauty embedded in simplicity, like in Japanese architecture, where by the use of light, the relation between inside and outside is reduced to its purest form. In our designs we present beauty by refinement. In each design layer the spatial concept is defined, and is consistently carried on, through to the smallest detail.
In our mission to explore the concept of beauty, nature is of great inspiration and can be a fundamental guideline or starting point to a design. Design can emerge from a landscape, where it can grow into an elementary ingredient of the outside space. Nature can be the foundation for the design of a public space, but it can also be an inspiration for the design of an interior.
In spatial design the aim is to evoke a (sub)conscious sensitivity between the users and their close surrounding. The environment and the created experience will touch the public, but also its context will touch the public.
This spatial awareness can on one hand, be emphasised by a conscious choice for certain materials. We are interested in traditional craftsmanship as well as new technologies. The studio’s use of materials composed from this exploration results in a strong materialisation of a design, which enriches the spatial quality of an interior.
On the other hand, the awareness of the surrounding space is established by experiencing the tales and the heritage of a place.
A standard element in the design process is the investigation into this heritage, and the data originating from this investigation can be used to design a space which connects the new proposal with its past. Users are nourished by the space that surrounds them in the same way that space itself derives its identity from the history it has left behind, its immediate surrounding, the functions it offers and in return, from its’ inhabitants.
Within the framework of limitations (the social structures, the budget, the time, and the program requirements) we are investigating the boundaries of our possibilities. Data that appears constricting at first can be converted to a manual and become a set of guidelines for the design of a custom made environment.
We aim to convince the client to think bigger and to look from a greater perspective. We conceive of designs that excel expectations and give an optimal answer to the commission. We are not only pushing the boundaries within the brief, but also stretching the possibilities to realise it. To do so, we source collaborations with other disciplines, which gives the design substance wealth of conceptual layering. In our work an interior design for example, can form a stage. In the Sugar factory project, the space is breathing the atmosphere of the play, using music, food, objects and environment in the interior design to introduce the play and enlarge the substance of the costumes, embellishing stage and story. Urban areas, as in the train station project of Bilthoven can be designed as an interior, creating a collection of different public spaces that can be experienced as a place to inhabit on a journey. The design of this station area is strengthened by the knowledge and work of an inventor, animator and a landscape architect.
We are looking for projects where the spatial design forms a segment of a multi disciplinary plan in which our way of thinking can be enriched with visions from other disciplines, and transgressing design is created.
Studio Modijefsky designs spaces that are exciting and inspiring, where people perceive space in new ways and users are dared to look beyond the ordinary and be surprised. Our plans converge with the ideas and use of the public, and evolve with the user in time. Every new spatial design proposition aims to enrich the use of the space and its surrounding.
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About Esther Stam
Esther Stam finishes her study at the Willem de Kooning academy in Rotterdam in 2004, and graduates for interior design with predicate, with a plan for the redevelopment of a formal industrial site in the Zaan region, the Hembrugterrein.
After working as a freelancer for two years, she starts as an interior architect at Bureau Strijkers. Within the office, she works on several projects, like the interior design for N=5, Holland Casino Amsterdam, Project X and St Job. In 2008 Bureau Strijkers starts a new office together with Duzan Doepel ,DSA; Doepel Strijkers Architects – dsarotterdam.com Esther worked on assignments with different scales and diverse programs. A few of these project are; Lombardstraat, CIOS, Delta, NOM and Voorstraat. In 2009 Esther finishes her employment at DSA.
Esther works as a freelancer under the name Studio Modijefsky on several assignments. These assignments vary in duration, size and scale.
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