Le Cordon Bleu

A culinary school with tradition and the soul of a home.

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Project facts

Location: São Paulo · SP
Programme: Culinary school
Area: 780 m²
Scope: Architecture and interiors
Status: Completed and in operation

The project

Studio kitchens, library and café along a single route. A place where learning also means welcoming.

The project brings together kitchens for filming, cooking shows and classes, a café, library, shop, memorial museum and coworking space along one continuous route, linked by mezzanines and light stairs. Timber ceilings, indirect light and deep colours bring warmth to a space of intense work.

Every kitchen was designed to teach: generous worktops, equipment in plain sight and tables close by to taste, talk and try again.

School entrance with blue walls, framed photographs and the Le Cordon Bleu crest — The entrance: the school’s blue welcomes whoever arrives.

Cooking counter with a stone top, crockery on the shelves and a stainless steel hood under the timber ceiling — The teaching stations

01The teaching kitchen

Stations designed for teaching.

Ranges in a row, generous hoods and pale stone: everything in sight, so every gesture can be followed up close.

Library with a long wooden table and floor-to-ceiling bookshelves — The library

02Library and café

Among books, a pause.

Floor-to-ceiling shelves hold the extensive library, carefully planned to bring knowledge to coffee time.

Memorial Nina Horta panel, with her framed portrait and one of her sayings on the wall — The Nina Horta Memorial

03Memory

History along the way.

Plates, utensils and keepsakes receive their tribute, and the history of gastronomy becomes part of the route.

Gallery

Every room, taken slowly.

11 photographs

Mezzanine with a glass balustrade, linear ceiling light and glazed rooms — The mezzanine and coworking

Demonstration kitchen with ranges in a row and a stainless steel hood — Demonstration kitchen

Built-in ovens and wine cabinet in dark joinery — Coffee and wine space

Café with wooden tables and the kitchen behind — The café

Lit display case and shop shelves, with the word Expertise above — The shop

Wood and glass display case with bread — The bread display

Curved counter lit from below, with the word Excellence behind it — The counter

Glazed corridor with a blue wall and classrooms — The route

Framed photographs on the blue entrance wall — The welcome hall

Wall with a drawing of the Eiffel Tower and the Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Village sign — Paris on the wall

Café with wine-coloured chairs, the library behind and the Memorial Nina Horta panel — The café, the library and the memorial

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Sixty clients have reviewed the studio on Google. The rating is 5.0.

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