Frama Studio Store in Copenhagen is in what was an old apothecary shop, in a fine 19th-century apartment building on the corner of Adelgade and Fredericiagade, across the road from a row of the Nyboder houses and close to the church of Sankt Paul.

On 1st October, alongside the store but also with it’s own entrance from the street, Frama opened Apotek 57 Eatery under the chef Chiara Barla.

There are two rooms but also tables and stools on the pavement with views across the quiet street to the famous ochre-yellow 17th and 18th-century houses of Nyboder.

Eating here is a good way to not just see but to use or try out furniture from Frama and to eat from and drink from their ceramics and glassware.

The food preparation and serving area has Frama shelving and units from the Tea Kitchen range but the revelation was to see the main table at the centre of the room - a large oak rectangle on Frama Farmhouse Trestles - with eight Chair 01 in light, dark and black-stained finish.

Somehow, for some reason, I had filed away the design of the chair in my mind as a statement piece …. as a chair to be used on its own in a hall or in a room as a desk chair … so hence as a special or statement piece of furniture.

But, of course, at the centre of most Danish homes, and at the centre of entertaining in the home, is the table where you feed family and friends and that means that the dining table and it’s chairs are important and a serious investment.

As apartments get smaller and family demographics are changing - Denmark has more single-adult households than any other European country - so I was beginning to wonder if the idea of the dining table as the centre of the home could be changing. But here, as the main feature of the Eatery, with eight chairs around the table and space for more, this is furniture that justifies and occupies the dining space.

If you are lucky enough to have a large dining room then this is a strong design but because the table top is on trestles and the chairs stack then they could take over a general or a relatively small room for an occasion but be moved back or moved out for the space to be used in other ways.

The menu and opening times for the Eatery are on the Frama site.

Nyboder

Frama Studio Store
Fredericiagade 57
1310 Copenhagen