Café – restaurant – design shop in Dobřichovice Castle

"Café" (restaurant and shop with designer accessories) is located in the rooms of the former generality of the Order of the Knights of the Cross with Red Star in the Dobřichovice castle. The spaces in the castle have been imbued with a charismatic atmosphere from the beginning, created by the wall frescoes that cover most of the walls in the rooms.
"I imagine a truly inhabited castle as a charming mixture of diverse décor and furniture, objects of various shapes and purposes, decorations that distinguish the used castle from a sterile exhibition. Naturally inhabited large rooms. At the same time, I deemed it appropriate to connect the entire wing of the castle where the café is located with a distinct readable radical shape, linking all rooms including the enclosed back areas. The essence of the shape, which we began to call the "snake," also emphasizes reminiscences of the original spatial "looping" arrangement of six rooms."
The connection of all rooms with a single radical shape simultaneously multiplied the possibilities of using further, almost incongruous items and materials (snake, round and square tables, expensive and cheap chairs, bags along the walls and brushwood behind them). Everything contributes to the desired room atmosphere.
The way the "snake" divides the space and simultaneously offers it for appropriate display or concealment of various objects expands the potential of the entire space. The impression of an inhabited space prevails - a feeling that makes the café pleasant even for morning visitors of the semi-empty café.
Each of the designed items has many levels of detail perception - the closer a person is to them, the more designed details appear that are not evident at first glance. In addition to the usual levels of detail perception, such as the shape of the table or the arrangement of tables and on the other hand, the texture and color of the wood from which the table is made, many other intermediate levels have been embedded into the proposed elements, each offering its own worlds - such as the treatment of the table edge or the upholstery of the snake. The upholstery itself embodies many levels of reading - the pattern, individual components of the pattern, parts forming the pattern, and the individual elements of those parts…