The Larks Cafe Cafe Space by Lizaveta Odintsova is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.
BronzeInterior· 2025
The Larks Cafe Cafe Space
Client: The Larks Cafe
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category
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About The Larks Cafe Cafe Space
Cafe The Larks is a joyful space for a mindful community who value freedom, sincerity and a taste for life. The premises for this cafe, which serves delicious breakfasts all day with fragrant bread and croissants, are located in the modern Podil Plaza residential complex in Kyiv, Ukraine. The design style concept has several key standing points: pastel shades, graphic in the structural elements, rounded shapes for the furniture and usage of arches. The inspiration came from the name of the space: The Larks Cafe, a bird which symbolizes the hope, light, and joy.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
The Larks Cafe Cafe Space is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. The Larks Cafe Cafe Space is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. The Larks Cafe Cafe Space splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Where to Get It
Commercial Interior Design Services
We specialize in transforming commercial spaces including cafes, restaurants, beauty salons, clinics, and educational institutions. With over 30 completed projects across Ukraine, USA, and Germany, our award-winning studio creates interiors that balance aesthetic beauty with functional excellence.
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Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
The key idea was to create a space for free and open people, with quality food, delicious pastries, and desserts. The name and brand beech inspired us; the bird-man was invented based on the works of the famous Ukrainian writer and philosopher Hryhoriy Skovoroda.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
The key was to fit 3 different types of seating, technology, a coffee bar, storage areas, and a bathroom into 50m2. This was very challenging. We redesigned the layout more than 20 times, and it took us almost 2 months.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
I would like this project to be seen by as many people as possible, in printed design media. I want the whole world to know how bright, tasty, and juicy modern interior design in Ukraine is.
Behind the Design
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- Unique Properties
- Cafe The Larks is a joyful space for a mindful community who value freedom, sincerity and a taste for life.
The premises for this café, which serves delicious breakfasts all day with fragrant bread and croissants, are located in the modern Podil Plaza residential complex in Kyiv, Ukraine. The peculiarity of this project: unusual shape of the space - most of the walls were in the form of glass partitions of a radial shape. - Dimensions & Packaging
- The main emphasis was placed on the use of Ukrainian and Scandinavian design brands, such as: LITVINENKO DESIGN STUDIO, Diza, Babich studio, IKEA, Oitoproducts, FurFur, Kononenko ID.
- Tags
- cafe, beige design, cafe interior, mindful design
- Production Technology
- The design concept was to harmoniously place the technology zone and the landing zone for guests, and all this on a limited space of 50 m2. The project of this format required enormous energy and creativity, so as the making of the most exquisite dessert.
The main criteria in the technical design plan was to withstand all the necessary standards - ventilation, insolation, high strength of coatings and environmental friendliness of materials. Therefore, such types of finishes as microcement, self-leveling floor, decorative plaster, tiles and mirrors were chosen. - Design Challenge
- A mixture of such modern trends complements the space as: metals (stainless steel), rounded shapes (arches), float glass and a bright ceiling (caramel), light asceticism (nothing superfluous, no decor).
- Research
- Entering this cafe, you immerse yourself in an atmosphere of freedom and sunny space. There you feel like you belong, in a big city, where everything is created for rest and relaxation.
- Inspiration
- The design style concept has several key standing points: pastel shades, graphic in the structural elements, rounded shapes for the furniture and usage of arches. The inspiration came from the name of the space – The Larks Café, a bird which symbolises the hope, light, and joy. Also the lark is “the highest form of human existence” (according to the Ukrainian philosopher Grigoriy Skovoroda).
- Project Duration
- Location - Kyiv, Ukraine
Duration - 6 months - Operation Flow
- The key colors chosen were shades of caramel and pistachio, combining the colors of sand and gray, which brought everything together into a single composition. The textures of natural materials of concrete, wood and glass gave these interiors naturalness and light, a feeling of purity and lightness of space. The space is complemented by a mixture of such modern trends as: metals (stainless steel), rounded shapes (arches), float glass and a bright ceiling (caramel), light asceticism (nothing superfluous, no decor).
- Patents
- Buro Odintsova
- Image Credits
- Serhii Savchenko
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