Modellus Novus has completed the interiors of Saverne, a new restaurant from chef Gabriel Kreuther in New York’s Hudson Yards.
Located inside the Bjarke Ingels-designed Spiral skyscraper, the project translates Kreuther’s Alsace-inspired cuisine—already celebrated at his two-Michelin-starred namesake restaurant at Bryant Park—into a space that balances refinement with warmth.
Saverne takes its design cues from the Hudson Yards rail corridor, once home to train cars and railway stations. Modellus Novus wove that industrial heritage together with references to historic brasseries in Alsace and beyond, creating an expansive restaurant with distinct atmospheres throughout.
Three rooms, three moods
The restaurant unfolds across three distinct dining rooms. Guests enter the floor-to-ceiling windowed skyscraper into a compressed, opaque room paneled in Rosewood-hued walls, anchored by a richly veined Rosso Levanto stone host stand. That entry gives way to a luminous, expansive main dining room where ceilings climb to 30 feet.
A 21-seat bar, clad in green Cipollino marble, stretches the length of the main dining room and pairs with a broad back bar finished in Rosewood-colored veneer, bronze details, and tinted mirror. Patterned wood tables and dining chairs fill the room, bracketed by two Rosso Levanto stone banquettes upholstered in magenta leather.
A 21-foot custom chandelier rendered in chrome metalwork and glowing glass rods grounds the soaring space, lending it a sense of intimacy. Sheer curtains along the windows diffuse natural light and add textural softness, while Rosewood-hued wall paneling set at a 10-foot datum anchors the room. The floor itself nods explicitly to Alsatian design: a custom-patterned weaving of walnut, cherry, and oak.
The eat-in kitchen experience at Saverne
Saverne’s east dining room shifts in tone, offering a more casual eat-in kitchen experience built around open-fire cooking and the choreography of chefs and servers. Guests sit at raised banquettes along the window wall, framed between octagonal columns clad in Sienna Red tiles.
A rich oak floor and stained oak counters carry warmth through the space, which ends at a wooden wall and a massive pocket door leading into the private dining room.
A train-inspired private dining room
The private dining room takes its cues from the opulent dining cars that defined early-20th-century train travel, rendered as a study in golden hues. The room seats up to 20 guests at lacquered brass tables and is framed by ochre plaster, gold-tinted mirrors, and cream-colored sheer curtains.
Wood and brass cabinetry at one end provides storage for servicewares alongside a focal floral display, while open brass shelving at the opposite end puts diningwares on display. The floor echoes the main dining room’s wood pattern in variation, bringing visual liveliness to the more intimate setting.
