New York apply Bunn Studio has revamped a furnishings showroom set in a Renaissance constructing in Aarhus, Denmark, to look extra like an residence than a retailer.
Designed for Danish cupboard maker Garde Hvalsøe, the showroom homes the model’s signature handcrafted kitchens and walk-in wardrobes alongside a collection of furnishings.
The 600-square-metre area is break up over two ranges and 6 totally different rooms, together with a rest room and a kitchen set-up very like an actual residence.
Though not usually included in a cupboard maker’s showroom, these areas are designed to assist prospects visualise the furnishings in their very own houses.
“The structure is constructed with parts from a traditional American high-end residence together with an entrance slash kitchen, lounge space, and a bed room slash self-care space,” Bunn Studio defined.
The Renaissance constructing dates again to 1898 and options excessive ceilings, slender proportions and enormous home windows that admit a heat ambient mild.
Bunn Studio, led by Louise Sigvardt and Marcus Hannibal, needed to create a mellow and laid-back ambiance within the area utilizing this pure mild as the place to begin.
“The purpose of the design was to create a spot the place guests can spend their complete day comfortably and that invitations visitors to decelerate and turn into conscious of the small print that characterise Garde Hvalsøe furnishings,” the apply mentioned.
No doorways separate the totally different rooms, enabling guests to see straight from the first-floor entrance to the mirror on the reverse finish of the showroom in a single lengthy, unbroken line.
Garde Hvalsøe’s minimalist and modern designs, together with beds and bathtubs, sit in distinction with the constructing’s unique options comparable to ornamented columns, mouldings and painted by hand glass ceilings.
Bunn Studio chosen a color scheme to honour the prevailing options of the area, with the highest of the partitions painted in a darkish chocolate brown.
This makes the ceilings appear decrease and creates a extra intimate, cosy and home ambiance, in line with the apply.
The earthy, pure colors of the columns and the partitions are contrasted with lighter hues such because the shirting blue pinstripe of the bedding, the pink Verona Rossa stone on the self-importance desk and the intense yellow lampshade that tops the ground lamp within the lounge.
“We launched our first flagship showroom in Copenhagen in 2019 and opening our redesigned secondary area in Aarhus is an thrilling development for us,” commented Garde Hvalsøe founder Søren Hvalsøe Garde.
“Bunn Studio has designed a shiny and delightful area the place we are able to really showcase our craftsmanship, our holistic strategy to design and our quest for beautiful high quality.”
Bunn Studio was additionally answerable for the design of the primary standalone Copenhagen showroom from Danish furnishings model Brdr Krüger, which references the historical past of each the corporate and the situation.
The pictures is by Michael Rygaard.
