Danish design studio Space Copenhagen has used subdued shades of green and grey to deck out the dining room of Le Pristine restaurant in Antwerp, Belgium.
Le Pristine, which is headed up by three-Michelin-star chef Sergio Herman, occupies a 1960s modernist building.
Years of unfinished renovation works meant that the building's interior had several patchy brick walls and worn concrete columns.
When Space Copenhagen was asked to transform the site into Le Pristine, it decided to keep these aged features, and designed the restaurant to appear as "an inviting collage of historic references".

"Antwerp is a relatively small city, but extremely design-driven," said Peter Bundgaard Ru?tzou, who founded the studio alongside Signe Bindslev Henriksen. "From the outset, we were fascinated by the renaissance architecture, history and the artists from the region, and the way they depicted rural and rudimentary settings, people eating, enjoying a meal with a sense of humbleness," he continued.
"This informed how we envisioned the social experience at Le Pristine and the restaurant has been designed with a sense of slow aesthetics as a vehicle for modern social encounter in Antwerp."

The dark shades used by Dutch and Flemish old master painters such as Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer and Peter Paul Rubens informed the colour palette of Le Prestine's ground-floor dining area.

Murky green leather seating banquettes have been paired with bespo...