A kitchen wrapped in yuzu-coloured glass sits at the centre of HAF Studio's interior for Japanese burger restaurant Yuzu, in Reykjavík.
Situated on the city's recently rejuvenated Hverfisgata street, the 220-square-metere restaurant incorporates Japanese yuzu fruit into all of its dishes, from burgers to cocktails and sauces.

With this hybrid menu in mind, local designers HAF Studio set out to create an interior that blends Nordic and Japanese aesthetics.
The studio is the latest in a string of practices that have attempted to blend design from these two parts of the world in a restaurant interior. At recently-opened Copenhagen restaurant Izumi, Pan-Projects and Mok Architects incorporated oak surfaces, translucent screens and paper lanterns to reflect the Nordic-Japanese menu.
At Yuzu, HAF Studio has teamed raw industrial materials such as concrete bricks, chromed steel and yellow glass with warmer natural materials associated with Nordic design, such as Douglas fir flooring and brown leather benches.
"We studied Japanese aesthetics in the attention to detail and use of minimal shapes," HAF studio design director Hafsteinn Júlíusson told Dezeen. "The solid wood furniture is uncoloured and concrete walls are left untreated in its original state. This enhances the Japanese feel in our opinion where everything in the space is there for a reason."

The 80-seat restaurant revolves around a central open kitchen wrapped in yellow glass that references the...