Brdr Krüger. These sit underneath designer
Jonas Edvard’s pendant lamps, crafted
from limestone from the Fakse region of
Denmark. Scattered among tables are logs of
salvaged pine – darkened by centuries spent
submerged in Copenhagen’s harbour –
some freestanding and others stacked into
a waiter’s station by cabinetmakers Malte
Gormsen. Natural light floods in through
skylights, as well as large sliding windows
that look out to Christiania across the water.
Around the corner is the private dining
room, clad entirely in Dinesen Douglas fir and
lined with floor-to-ceiling windows. Its
centrepiece is a long oak table by Brdr Krüger,
lit by a series of pendant lamps made by
Edvard out of compressed seaweed. On the
opposite side of the village, meanwhile, is a
lounge with handmade brick walls and a
stepped oak roof, where guests can relax after
their meal around a fireplace. There, bespoke
pieces by Thulstrup and soft furnishings by
Faroese designer Ragnhild Hjalmarsdóttir
Højgaard are mixed with classic Nordic pieces.
Thulstrup is determined that the village
change with the seasons, by rotating smaller
design elements and even adapting lighting
to suit climate conditions. The latter requires
some cutting-edge technology developed by
local designer Michael Anker and Austrian
brand XAL. Each of their lighting fixtures
can be adjusted digitally to provide a ‘warm,
fireplace-like experience in winter’, explains
Anker, and cooler light in summer, so ‘it’s
as nice sitting inside as it is outside’ – all the
while keeping a high colour rendering
index so that the food and the space can be
perceived as accurately as possible.
All tableware from the original restaurant
having been sold off at auction, Noma
tasked glass artist Nina Nørgaard, who had
already produced pieces for the old Noma,
to design a whole new set of glassware. With
the exception of the juice glass, which was
moulded, each individual glass was blown by
hand, with each stem dragged out from the
glass’s bowl instead of being attached as a
separate piece, making for a sturdier body but
also adding to the difficulty of production.
Accounting for the different styles,
Nørgaard had to deliver 2,000 glasses in
under six months. Six hours a day, in a
precisely choreographed sequence, her
colleague Jason Svendsen would do all the
blowing while she kept an eye on the
measurements, and shaped each glass. »
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Nina Nørgaard
Glassware
Nørgaard, pictured here in her Copenhagen studio,
created 2,000 glasses in less than six monthsThomas Dinesen
Wood
Dinesen, pictured at his company HQ in Rødding
with a Douglas fir trunk, supplied wood
for the project’s walls, cladding and flooring