designs inspired by tradition and craft

saving the old elements

art of detailing

masterplan

on tradition

Some of the objects forming a reference point for us in deciding and setting out the aesthetic direction for the Project.

sketch

ceiling

ribs

on traditional forms

We wanted the restaurant to reconnect to something from the region, and it was obviously the fishing and boat building art forms that first caught our imagination. It was so that the design has elements belonging very much to the genius loci of the village, not something we could simply pluck from the air; we didn’t want anything to just suddenly come out of the woods…

reflections

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Henry Ford

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Oscar Wilde

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau