Deep red theatre velvet, folded and lit

[ Identity / site / 2026 ]

Maison Rouge

Client
Maison Rouge, Amsterdam
Role
Identity, site, art direction
Year
2026
Discipline
Identity / site

A restaurant with one colour and one rule: everything in the room earns its place. The identity had to do the same. We built the brand around the red of the dining room itself, then let photography and typography do the rest.

Deep red theatre velvet, folded and lit

The brief

Maison Rouge came to us three months before opening with a name, a room, and a chef. No logo, no site, no photography. We started in the room: its velvet, its low light, its single long table. The brand is that room, flattened onto paper and screen.

Atelier Noord dining room at dusk
Diners at a table in Atelier Noord

“They gave us an identity you can feel in the dark.”

Head chef, Maison Rouge

The site

The website is one page, one booking flow, no menu PDFs. It loads in under a second on the phone of someone standing outside the door, which is where most reservations happen.

Diners at a table in Atelier Noord
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