FRAMA's Idea of a "Basic" Cafe Is Noma-Level Pastries Inside an Artisanal Cabin
FRAMA is planning a patient, beautiful takeover of its hometown of Copenhagen. There, the multi-faceted design studio is quietly building a humble empire of gorgeous hangout spots, from a charmingly intimate wine bar to a wood-panelled studio store for buying organic grooming products and furniture built from natural materials.
Its newest addition to Copenhagen’s hospitality scene is a coffee bar designed to bring “serenity in the midst of the city.” To achieve this, FRAMA has created the kind of space you’d expect to find in one of Denmark’s rural villages, if rural Danish villages were stocked with five-star amenities.
Located on the longest street in central Copenhagen (Store Kongensgade), CABIN is, as the name suggests, a pine wood cabin.
Inside its wooden walls is a selection of FRAMA furniture — round bistro-style tables and sleek stools slim enough for the compact space — that’ll seat guests enjoying coffee brewed under the watchful eye of head barista Jun Nishimura, who honed his craft in Japan’s third-wave coffee scene, using beans from award-winning barista Tim Wendelboe.
In CABIN, everyone is an expert. Former Noma chef Dhriti Arora, who now runs FRAMA’s 16-seat wine bar and eatery Bar Vitrine, is overseeing the baked goods offered alongside said coffee.
Although it bears the facade of its modest namesake, every detail of CABIN is unimpeachably high-end. The fabrics used to upholster the built-in furniture, for example, are either custom-made with Swedish luxury furnishing company Astrid or sourced from industry-leading fabric manufacturer Kvadrat. Even the music playing in the shop will emanate from artisanal speakers created by Danish hi-fi company Audiovector.
“CABIN embraces living deliberately with the knowledge that the best things in life are often the most basic,” according to FRAMA. But there’s nothing basic about CABIN's top-of-the-line interior, nor the specialty goods it serves.
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