Title Restaurant Nationalmuseum
Category Interior design
Client Nationalmuseum, www.nationalmuseum.se
Material Various
Year 2018
On October 13, 2018, the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm opened after extensive renovation and rebuilding. The construction project has been a unique opportunity for the museum to develop new exhibition concepts and settings. In line with the museum’s public mission and vision to make art and design accessible as broadly as possible, the restaurant’s new interior design took the form of an artistic project. The goal was to give a collective of designers the opportunity to work together, explore materials and methods, discover old and new producers, and ultimately provide visitors with insights into the design process – creating a new inspiring space for public use.
The new restaurant and café at the Nationalmuseum is located in three impressive ground floor galleries previously closed to the public but now reopened to visitors. The ambition is that the 550 m2 premises will become an inviting space for the visitors and a constant changing living room.
The task of designing the concept of the restaurant space was commissioned to Matti Klenell, who chose TAF Studio, Carina Seth Andersson and Stina Löfgren as his close partners and collaborators in this project. The constellation has worked together before in the bespoken A New Layer project. When the concept was set, it was also part of the Nationalmuseum’s assignment to expand the team and invite additional designers to participate in executing specific tasks.