It is located in the same building that houses Central Restaurante, in the traditional district of Barranco on the Limean coast. Like all the project’s spaces, Kjolle’s architectural concept emerges from the relationship between landscaping and architecture. Its identity, however, is far from being a mere extension of Central.

Kjolle’s architecture stems from a search for simplicity and fluidity, as this is a restaurant that nourishes off Peruvian biodiversity without adhering to the order of its ecosystems.

The use of soft colors and textures was essential to the project: while minerals are predominant in Central – volcanic rock for the floors, clay and Amazonian wood for its panels – warmth predominates in Kjolle – pine wood for the false ceiling, and the delicate cream tone of its Ayacuchan onyx bar.

Natural elements and unique, artisanally crafted pieces bring warmth to the space, thus a textile piece was created in collaboration with artist Ana Barboza and artisan Elvia Paucar. Moreover, the restaurant is illuminated by natural light that is filtered through a patio coated in volcanic rock and two inner gardens.

We look at the landscape and it gives us back his own look. As we look, we recover the past’s perspective: the worldviews of who once inhabited this territory.

In the landscape, we find too the sediments of time; we read the footprints of the space’s multiple transformations, a non-lineal registry of how we inhabit the territory.

Looking at the landscape we question our own look, the point of view that places humankind at the center of the history of image. Through the landscape’s perspective, we can approach the history of matter and experience that we are part of a tissue of living organisms in perpetual exchange. This way, we decentralize ourselves.

The performance Bodies in Landscapes was part of Rafael Freyre’s art exhibition The Material of Landscape.