Restored paintings cover walls of converted Frescohallen restaurant

Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has transformed a listed room in Norway right into a restaurant, including an angular mirrored bar and restoring the constructing’s historic frescoes.

Designed to spotlight the historical past of the constructing, Frescohallen restaurant was added to the previous Norwegian Inventory Alternate in Bergen, changing a rundown meals corridor that beforehand occupied the area.

In-built 1862, the area options partitions coated in massive historic work that had turn out to be soiled and broken.

“The area hosted a dreadful and rundown sort of meals court docket,” Claesson Koivisto Rune co-founder Eero Koivisto advised Dezeen. “The frescoes have been fairly soiled and never taken care of since a long time.”

The studio aimed to finish a delicate renovation of the area, preserving the present artworks on the centre of the room and restoring them to their authentic high quality.

“The ten big frescoes describe the each day life and companies of Norway on the time, and have been accomplished in 1923 by the Norwegian artist Axel Revold,” mentioned Koivisto. “The artworks at the moment are restored and lit with state-of-the-art lighting.”

In addition to showcasing the unique artworks, the studio preserved the present options of the room, together with a rhythmic association of olive inexperienced columns that reach by the area and department right into a groin-vaulted ceiling, which is embellished with crimson, inexperienced, and gold paintwork.

The renovation concerned a spread of minimal modifications, together with the elimination of recent components that had been added to the facades and the addition of recent indicators and flooring.

“New interventions have been required to the touch flippantly and be reversible,” the studio defined. “Other than eradicating some later additions to the facades, essentially the most vital addition was new lighting and signage.”

Inside, the addition of a bar space marks the most important change to the area. Situated on the centre of the room, the bar is completed with a mirrored coating designed to supply friends with vast views of the restaurant.

“Utilizing mirrors allowed for the likelihood to let all friends view the well-known frescoes and the magnificent area,” mentioned Koivisto.

A mezzanine-level eating space options on high of the mirrored bar, performing as an elevated viewing space that provides a more in-depth view of the encircling artworks.

Across the central bar, the studio divided the restaurant right into a collection of eating areas separated by granite steps and modifications in flooring.

The areas embrace eating areas dramatically lit by massive, arched home windows, in addition to extra personal areas which were recessed into nooks bordered on a number of sides by massive work.

Stretching by one eating space is a big carpet, which is embellished with a sample of enormous dots and was designed by Claesson Koivisto Rune to replicate the colors within the surrounding work.

“The big dot sample on the carpeting is impressed by cash – a nod to the constructing’s earlier life,” the studio defined. “All of the dots, in numerous blue hues, reference the frescoes. In truth, all colors launched, together with the furnishings, are referenced from the frescoes.”

The studio additionally designed a collection of furnishings for the area, together with blue wood chairs and ring-shaped, fabric-coated benches that wrap across the columns.

To enhance the acoustics within the restaurant, the studio added a strip of sound-absorbing panels at eye degree. Nestled just under the work, the fabric is hidden by a steady, dark-coloured curtain.

“With a view to alter the unique ‘cathedral-like’ character of the area and create an atmosphere appropriate for a restaurant and bar, trendy sound-absorbing materials hidden behind a brand new, steady curtain working alongside all of the partitions have been put in, with upholstered sofas instantly beneath,” the studio defined.

“Customized-designed, wall-to-wall carpeting additionally provides to the mild atmosphere and improves the acoustics.”

Based in 1995 by Koivisto with Mårten Claesson and Ola Rune, Claesson Koivisto Rune is an structure and design studio primarily based in Stockholm.

Current architectural tasks accomplished by the studio embrace a Swedish house clad in red-painted planks of native pine and a boutique resort that was transformed from a Nineteen Twenties financial institution constructing in Tokyo.

The images is by Sigurd Fandango.