La Mercerie, headed by Chef Marie-Aude Rose, is an all-day café where we gather to eat, drink and get lost in the moment. It’s the first restaurant that Roman and Williams has ever designed for ourselves, and we wanted to create something comfortably lavish, that evoked both the refined and earthly aspects of French cuisine.
Inspired by calm reveries, La Mercerie has an overall watery-blue cast, with pale-gray floors, and a stunning enameled kitchen, custom-outfitted by Athanor. Thick slabs of marble top the counters, and paper lines the surfaces of the botanically-thinking “Angelica” dining tables we designed for the space. These tables, as well as the pendant lamps hanging from the ceiling, are a part of Roman and Williams GUILD NY’s Founding Collection of furniture and lighting.