Karavaan is an all-day restaurant and cocktail bar situated in Amsterdam's Kwakersplein square.Dutch practice Studio Modijefsky designed the 357-square-metre restaurant as a journey through five natural landscapes: a meadow, swamp, forest, mountain and desert.
Karavaan restaurant has colourful interiors .Yellow-tiled walls that recall grassy meadows and swampy purple ceilings appear inside this travel-themed restaurant at the centre of Amsterdam. Each zone boasts a slightly different colour scheme and material palette but is linked together by a dark horizontal line that runs around the restaurant's walls, serving as a consistent visual thread.
Customers enter through a glass vestibule, arriving under a large circular ceiling light that illuminates a small lounge area below.From here the space unfolds in various directions, with different groupings of furniture and decor details guiding people through the interior.
A second entrance is set in the right-hand corner of the building, shielded by a curtain.Intended to evoke the feeling of being amongst the tall grass of a meadow, the area has been finished with yellow-tile walls, a herringbone wooden floor, natural oak bar and a cream, carpeted ceiling.
The floor steps up a level to the central bar and dining area which features bespoke seating. Designed to recall the reflections of the water and roughness of sediment found in a swamp, this space features a glossy ceiling, deep blue columns and stucco walls.Mirrored tiles, zinc and cork are used on the bar.The swamp theme is hinted at again in the side of the restaurant that overlooks the square, which has a deep-purple ceiling and murky grey bench seat.
- Interiors: Studio Modijefsky
- Photos: Maarten Willemstein
- Words: Qianqian