art deco glory

I don’t know about you but one of my first loves for interiors and architecture came from art deco design. Living in seaside Elwood in Melbourne Australia, as a teen I was surrounded by glorious art deco buildings that have mostly been demolished making way for mass production apartment blocks with little or no design credibility.

This was not the fate for The Standard in Copenhagen. The latest venture by renowned Danish ‘gastronomic entrepreneur’ Claus Meyer with world famous jazz musician, Niels Lan Doky. Together with the Danish-Italian design duo, GamFratesi they recently transformed a 1937 historical building into a new cultural and gastronomic landmark with three world-class restaurants and a jazz club.

After an intense process, the space has now been re-born as “The Standard” a name that pays tribute to the history of the building and also signifies the vision and ambition of it’s new owners. Today, this art deco building, stands as a perfect example of International functionalism for its time. It was originally used as customs chamber, later as tickets office and waiting hall for passengers boarding the ferries to Sweden.