Inspirations

Design Travel: An Italian Chef and a Danish Baker at Marigold in Rome

On my dream summer wish list? To stop by Marigold in Rome, helmed by couple Domenico Cortese (a chef from Calabria) and Sofie Wochner (a baker from Copenhagen), plus an international team of baristas, servers, and cooks (“between the kitchen and the dining room,” they say, “we speak seven different languages”).

The result is a restaurant and micro bakery with Roman-meets-Nordic appeal, a shop filled with house-designed ceramics, and, sometimes, flowers foraged from the Aurelian walls on the coffee bar.

Have a look around.

Photography via @marigold_roma, except where noted.

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Above: The shop has an unassuming exterior on Via Giovanni da Empoli. In good weather, outdoor seating spills out into the parking spots. Photograph by Ryan Neveen, courtesy of Marigold.

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Above: A bundle of found flowers is not an uncommon sight.

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Above: Sofie designed the interior herself with help from another Danish-Italian couple: Samina Langholz and Andrea Brugi, based in Tuscany. Samina weighed in on the interiors, while Andrea made all of the wooden elements, from the long communal tables down to the stoppers for the water carafes. The coffee bar is wrapped in brass.