LOISIR

Design by Nordic Bros.
Location: Seoul, South Korea
We are pleased to introduce the third café project of Nordic Bros. Design
Community Losir after dessert café Pied and Kafe Nordic in Itaewon and
Hannam-dong.
Loisir is a baking studio & boutique cafe owned and operated by
patissier   Sookyung Kim about afternoon tea and cake. Loisir got inspiration
from the ©time seeking solitude of life ~ and will interpret and show
desserts in France and Japan after Loisir ”s own fashion.
The client wanted Loisir ; is own sensibility interpreted by the designer
could be expressed in a space just like the ©space achromatic colored,
unexposed but fascinating itself felt from the dessert cafe Pied, the previous
work of Nordic Bros. Design Community, and she wanted to commune
with the designer through various themes.
During the process of understanding the client, the direction towards the
“©space changeable each season:- and focused on allowing a margin at
important points of the space while concentrating on the layout such as the
utilization of interior and exterior spaces separated into two stories and
minimization of the traffic line .
Before selecting materials and colors, the client asked to preserve the
appearance(used bricks) as much as we could upon request by the landlord,
and the designer put emphasis on the use of unsmooth finish materials such
as terracotta and painting of the exposure state to fit in the used bricks.
Second floor inspired by an arcade and a corridor to utilize merits of the
previous environment the house with an open yard and a quiet alley), it
blurred the distinction between spaces and emphasized the continuity by
arranging the gable roof structure consecutively in a row inside and outside.
While providing each table inside and outside with the individual view and
leaving a margin for a line for lighting equipment, it used copper as the
accent color to express the space image that fell under narcissism.
First floor substantial in the utilization of space after combining two
pervious studio apartments into one and placing the baking studio and the
stairs going to the café upstairs in the center, the staff room, storage, main
kitchen, toilet, and office enclosed them in the form of to minimize the
traffic line and fully utilize the space.