Druckwasserwerk Restaurant Bilder
Interior and food photography in the historic Druckwasserwerk at the Westhafen. Restaurant and food photography: Westhafen Frankfurt. Since 1899 this…
Since 1899 this long-standing, listed hydraulic power station has offered an extraordinary cultural, artistic and culinary atmosphere. High-end German cooking, the option of a Sunday brunch, selected wines and spirits and the charm of the house give guests a complete sensory pleasure. This former neo-Roman machine hall with 2 towers, its own wine cellar and a spacious outdoor area including its own car park offers a wide range of options for hosting large events. Those specialities include weddings, conferences, company celebrations and the chance to relax with us over Sunday brunch. Whatever event you are planning, the historic hydraulic power station is the ideal choice.
Photographically the hall is the job, and only one standpoint solves it: the gallery. From below the machine room is a row of laid tables between brick walls. From above you see what the building sells — the arched windows running through two stories, the steel beams under the ceiling, the oval bar in the middle, and the number of settings that fit around it. Anyone planning a wedding for two hundred people decides on that one frame.
The brick is not a neutral background. It takes up every warm light and gives it back orange, which is why the house's violet wall washers stay in the picture: they are the counterweight that takes the saturation out of the red. Without them the whole hall tips into a single brown-orange and the table loses its colors.
The bar behind the round arch is photographed twice, because it can do two things. Straight on and symmetrical it is a picture of the building — arch, clock, backlit shelf, two wall lights on the axis. Shot from within the room it is the evidence that evenings happen here.
The exposure goes on the backlit bottle shelf. It is the brightest surface in the hall, and once the drawing there is gone nothing will bring it back — the brick, by contrast, takes being lifted out of shadow without falling apart.
And the chalkboards to left and right stay legible in the frame. One handwritten sentence on a wall says more about the tone of a house than a description of its furnishing.
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- Westhafen Frankfurt
