Tokki, a Japanese restaurant in the Ninth Arrondissement of Paris, had served a sophisticated menu for years, but the restaurant interior had taken a backseat.
Photography by Katrin Vierkant, courtesy of LSL Architects.
The architects designed a Shaker-style peg rail in hand-dyed pine and created custom chalkboard menus and candle sconces to move around the room.
The architects took the cast iron bases of the owner’s former tables, painted them white, and paired them with custom pine tabletops.
Wide pillar candles in tin cans make up the Shaker sconces.
LSL sourced light gray Ludde Sheepskins from Ikea (no longer available) and cut some to fit the shape of the school chair seats.
Every nook of the restaurant is put to use.
LSL bought the apple crates from an apple delivery company in Orléans, France, for €15 each.
An Illy Espresso Machine, white beveled subway tile, wall-mounted globe lights (for something similar, see the FLOS Mini Glo Ball), and an Ikea Ringskär Faucet and Sink (no longer available).
The simple table decoration is left “more free-form, to give the restaurant life” and changes often.
A collection of large rear view mirrors salvaged from industrial shipping trucks makes up the bathroom mirror.
“After demolishing the plasterboard ceiling and walls from years of paint and renders, we found stone walls and a vaulted ceiling,” Linde says. The pendant lights are the white Industrial Steel Lamps from Zangra in Belgium.
The stainless steel kitchen is a combination of Ikea and bespoke components. The stairway, seen at left, is a metal enclosure made from metal gratings welded to fit the stairwell.