Space Copenhagen, the Danish design studio founded by Signe Bindslev Henriksen and Peter Bundgaard Rützou, has completed the interiors for AMBRA, a new restaurant in the heart of Copenhagen. AMBRA is the latest creation from acclaimed Chef Andreas Bagh, the chef behind Restaurant Esmée at Kongens Nytorv Copenhagen – also designed by Space Copenhagen. Seamlessly fusing Italian culinary traditions with Danish design, Space Copenhagen carefully curated AMBRA’s atmospheric, inviting interiors to complement the casual dining experience nested amidst Copenhagen’s enchanting cityscape. 

On entering AMBRA from the buzzing street of Store Kongensgade, guests are welcomed into an expansive space featuring double-height ceilings with exposed features that celebrate the building's industrial origin. Towering banquette seating and a cloud of large bespoke Space Copenhagen chandeliers for &Tradition bring a sense of human scale to the space, with the chandeliers providing a soft ceiling suspended in mid-air.

A 10-metre-long wooden bar, crowned with a brown travertine bar top and paired with bar stools from Frama, offers guests a place to enjoy drinks, small plates, and lively conversation. Softly upholstered banquettes, lounge chairs by Arne Jacobsen for Sika, and dining seating from Gebruder Thonet,surround the bar in nuances of ochre and dark plum, complemented by tables in brown travertine and yellow marble.

Space Copenhagen describes its approach as Poetic Modernism. The ambition is to forge new paths by balancing opposites — classic and modern, industrial and organic, sculptural and minimal, light and shade. Duality and contrast. Curiosity as a fundamental human condition.  The studio’s intuitive approach embodies designs that are distinctively shaped by the given circumstances, functional needs, and a fundamental interest in human behaviour. It is a sense of and belief in slow aesthetic that centres quality and longevity. 

Space Copenhagen continuously adds to a roster of high-end interiors created for the likes of the awardwinning 11 Howard Hotel in New York, The Stratford in London and received a Wallpaper* shortlist for best new hotel worldwide 2019, and acclaimed destination restaurants Geranium, Le Pristine and the original Noma in Copenhagen, while partnering with some of the world’s leading manufacturers, creating lauded furniture pieces for among others, GUBI, Stellar Works, Fredericia Furniture, &Tradition and Mater.