Maredo Flagship-Restaurant / Ippolito Fleitz Group

  • Architects In Charge: Kim Angenendt, Michael Bertram, Katrin Büttner, Gunter Fleitz, Timo Flott, Juliane Förster, Peter Ippolito, Vivien Kintopf, Tim Lessmann, Kerem Özerler, Verena Schiffl, David Schwarz
  • City: Berlin
  • Country: Germany
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Maredo Flagship-Restaurant / Ippolito Fleitz Group - Interior Photography, Dining room, Table, Chair, Beam
© Clara Tuma

Text description provided by the architects. German steakhouse chain Maredo was founded in 1978. With around 50 restaurants nationwide, it is Germany’s market-leader in the steakhouse sector. To remain competitive and cash in on the prevailing steak and burger hype, Maredo opted for a radical interior makeover and profile enhancement.

Maredo Flagship-Restaurant / Ippolito Fleitz Group - Interior Photography, Table, Chair, Windows
© Clara Tuma

The restaurant chain is all about top quality. An important part of this promise is offering exceptionally high-quality meat, which Maredo sources straight from South America. We have put together a new interior concept that focuses on this key product and its origins, transforming quality into something much more tangible. The new materials and colour world is inspired by the raw material meat with its archaic connotations and intrinsic connection to fire. Its origins are condensed into the figure of the gaucho: the archetypal South American herdsmen. The essence of this is freedom, independence, a closeness to nature and a life lived on endless plains. The traditional gaucho poncho with its woven geometric pattern inspires the spatial elements that are formed from diamond and zigzag shapes and give the Corporate Architecture its high recognition value. It can be found in the floor tiles that were specially designed for Maredo, in the wallpaper on the walls, in the structure of the counter fronts and in the open, coffered wood ceiling. The materials world is characterised by living, natural surfaces such as wood and leather. Tree trunks and ropes, deployed as filter elements to zone the large space, and the traditional cast-iron barbecue grill are all references to the daily life and environment of the herdsman. Large-format photographs on the walls and bull horn and sombrero-shaped lights continue the spatial concept into the smallest detail. 

Maredo Flagship-Restaurant / Ippolito Fleitz Group - Interior Photography, Chair
© Clara Tuma

Immediately adjacent to the entrance is a barbecue area with an open fire, which lets guests dive straight into an archaic ambience while whetting the appetite for grilled meat. The counter that is illuminated from beneath and a brass-clad hood give the generous barbecue area a qualitative and earthy feel, as well as functioning as the spatial translation of the Maredo quality promise concerning steak and its preparation. Opposite this area is a salad bar with a fresh and light appearance, which enters into a dialogue of opposites with the archaic nature of the charcoal fire. A long, open fire runs through the seating area furthest removed from the barbecue area at the very rear of the dining room, thereby guaranteeing a cosy, fireside atmosphere throughout the space. A balanced range of seating options – from a long, floating, marble table that can seat a good dozen people to more enclosed leather-upholstered berths in the rear areas of the restaurant – offers a variety of dining qualities, thus catering to guests’ differing gastronomic desires.

Maredo Flagship-Restaurant / Ippolito Fleitz Group - Interior Photography, Table
© Clara Tuma
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Maredo Flagship-Restaurant / Ippolito Fleitz Group - Interior Photography, Beam
© Zooey Braun

The new spatial concept has been implemented for the first time in the Berlin branch in ‘The Q’ mall, next to Berlin’s historic Gendarmenmarkt. The existing restaurant has been expanded to encompass a former post office branch next door, giving the new flagship restaurant almost 580 m² of floor space.

Maredo Flagship-Restaurant / Ippolito Fleitz Group - Interior Photography
© Clara Tuma

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Cite: "Maredo Flagship-Restaurant / Ippolito Fleitz Group" 05 Aug 2017. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/872165/maredo-flagship-restaurant-ippolito-fleitz-group> ISSN 0719-8884

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