Designed by Tokyo firm Daikei Mills, Parisian restaurant Dersou is named after the title character in the 1975 Akira Kurosawa film. Located near the Bastille, the original restaurant space was centuries old and had “layers of history,” as the designers say.
One Yelp reviewer notes that the restaurant has a “Brooklyn, Tokyo, Paris vibe.” The ceiling pendant is similar to the Industrial Chandelier from Brooklyn/Charleston–based Workstead, and the live-edge bar is made from a single piece of wood.
The designers installed a metal backrest against one wall; it’s an “inserted element that quietly punctuates the space, which is otherwise filled with natural materials,” they say.
The bar, with industrial and warm wood elements.
Hand-shaved ice, used in cocktails.
The designers stripped away layers of wallpaper to reveal the original walls.
An informal flower arrangement in a recycled jar.
Japanese-born chef Taku Sekine and restaurateur Amaury Guyot.
Photograph by @isariert via @dersouparis.
The nightly menus are hung up with butcher’s twine.
The restaurant at night. For more low-key, characterful Parisian restaurants, see.