Loop Food Zekeriyakoy Celebrates French Desserts in Parisien-Inspired Setting
Loop Food Zekeriyakoy by Wand Works Architecture is a restaurant in İstanbul, Türkiye, crafted in 2023. It combines a bakery and café, celebrated for French desserts. The design intertwines refined chic with modern minimalism, drawing inspiration from Parisien cafés.
French Dessert Inspiration
Loop Food Zekeriyakoy, designed by Wand Works Architecture in İstanbul in 2023, is a chic establishment that combines the essence of a bakery and a café. The architects approached the project as an interplay between refined chic and modern minimalism, focusing on composition, language, and materials.
With inspiration from Parisien cafés, the design showcases a feminine, light, and warm atmosphere, elevating the experience of a bakery. The setting harmonises through sophisticated details, an elegant material palette, and well-thought-out joinery and furniture.
Domestic and Romantic Interior
The owner’s unique approach to hospitality, embodying a domestic and familiar home experience, results in a romantic and friendly interior. As a community-focused venue, it caters to different social occasions with seating options for various numbers of people and purposes of visit, all within a welcoming bakery environment.
The ground floor houses a production kitchen, sales counters, and dessert displays, with limited seating to prevent overcrowding. The first floor accommodates most seated customers, offering tables for one to eight people with seating options like chairs, armchairs, bar stools, or sofas.
Distinctive Design Elements
A distinctive feature of the interior is the use of wrought iron gazebos, which divide the space into sub-functions such as dessert display and sales, ice cream display, and seating areas. These gazebos and lighting posts create a dreamy mix of interior and exterior styles.
The branding colour green, inspired by the surrounding woods, is used as the background on textured walls, ceilings, and microcement floor coverings. Brass details complement the greens and elevate the white gazebos, while wood and leather accents warm up the cold colors and metals. Marble countertops and tabletops introduce a luxurious but familiar texture.
Open Kitchen and Outdoor Setting
The open kitchen allows the inviting scent of baked goods to permeate the café and extend outside, enhancing the home-like feeling. Customers can watch the chefs at work, adding to the experience.
Adjacent to a woodland where locals jog or spend time, Loop Food’s garden faces the woodland entrance, offering an open garden without solid boundaries, allowing easy passage.
Loop Food Zekeriyakoy beautifully combines a modern minimalism with a chic and community-oriented atmosphere, celebrating femininity and comfort in a Parisien-inspired setting.
Photography courtesy of Wand Works Architecture
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