Lingenhel’s cavernous spaces host a food shop, a restaurant, a bar, a private dining space and a cookery school while a see-through working cheese factory located intentionally in the residence’s former stables puts cheese-making at the centerpiece exposing all aspects of the ripening process.

Inside Lingenhel a feeling of authenticity is underlined by the extensive use of cubically stacked wooden beams reminiscent of the building’s historic roof truss while wire-mesh chandeliers designed by Rick Tegelaar create artificial shafts of light and shadows and accentuate the rhythm of arched entryways and windows throughout the spaces.

Striving to create a place with strong identity that celebrates the scratches and crevices of time, Destilat studio incorporated Victorian cast-iron details, Austrian terrazzo tiles as well as wood and granite features to develop a natural “patina” and stamp its own mark on this historic 19th century manor house.