When passion for food meet passion for design and accuracy, the result can be as pleasant as a starred dish, just like today’s project shows. Located in Amsterdam, The Roast Room is a venue entirely dedicated to meat, so much that it can be actually considered the gallery of the art of such ingredient. Given such premise, the decoration of the restaurant needed to be majestic and refined, and that’s why the project has been developed by as much as two studios, Studio Modijefsky and Studio Molen. The interior has been designed with great detail and has been hand made by the contributing parties - from the furniture pieces and the tiling, to the special lighting and the mascot of the venue, the butcher.

On the first floor of The Roast Room you will find a brasserie-style restaurant. Sitting at large cutting boards you have a view of the kitchen and a bar with large copper beer tanks hanging above it. In the marble bar, display windows showcase the goods of the in-house butcher’s shop. By turning a giant wheel the butcher opens his shop window so guests can see him cutting and boning the meat. A stairway resembling a chopping block leads to the Rotisserie on the first floor. Here, a creamy white bar, a pitch-black kitchen and a sky of brass light fixtures make up an intimate setting forsome fine dining. The centrepiece is a light sculpture, Ginger Blimp, which connects the two floors. Studio Molen made this monumental chandelier, just like the other bronze works, especially for the restaurant.
Transparency and durability are the main ingredients for The Roast Room and this is made visible in the restaurant’s design. Studio Modijefsky and Studio Molen created an interior with an open, robust and timeless character. The attention and love for the food being served echoes in the dedication with which the interior has been made.

INFO: www.studiomolen.nl and www.studiomodijefsky.nl

PHOTO COURTESY: Maarten Willemstein