Task:
We had a task of creating a fashionable, eye-catching, modern place. To suggest an unusual, ‘dynamic’ feature that would ‘test’ a guest's attention: will they notice if something has changed?
Challenges:
We had to create a completely new interior that would be compatible with the updated restaurant concept but at the same time preserve and fit the existing elements. To come up with a fresh solution for the facade under strict standards of residential development in the Moscow region.
Idea:
The concept of the restaurant is based on the idea of constant changes in the world around us and the guest’s ability to notice them. While moving around the restaurant, the perception of space changes, which allows you to constantly discover new details you haven’t seen before.
Solution:
When creating the restaurant, we were inspired by nature and its changes: sunsets and sunrises, tides, the passing of time. We wanted to emphasize that these changes happen every day right before our eyes but people often do not notice them if they do not focus on it. This idea inderlied the interior concept.
The room consists of two floors, two different moods. However, there was no no need to separate them despite some difference in functionality. On the contrary, it was necessary to create a single concept, a common perception. To do this, we used the idea of the day/night cycles. So, the first floor symbolizes the warm sunlight — it stands for both a bright streak of light that can be seen at sunset, and at the same time soft golden rays at sunrise. The interior here is calm, in self-colored sand and terracotta tones, without a riot and variety of colors, which meets modern trends.
Here you find a simple style bar furnished with bright details and materials. The facade of the bar counter is made of brass with gradient oxidation. The back side of the bar is a panel of corrugated glass with a back bar made of a dichroic film. The bar symbolizes the sun — a hearth, a source of fun, activity, life and light. The bar is visible from the street — it attracts attention inviting passersby to enter the restaurant. There is also an open kitchen where chefs prepare pasta, which the visitor can purchase.
We were asked to organize a wardrobe in the restaurant but due to the complex architecture of the room, there was no place for a built-in one. The solution was a portable wardrobe — during the summer season it can be removed, which allows you to free up space and increase seating capacity.
The second floor is about evening and has deep, rich colors. It represents the sunset and its stunning colors: to warm shades of red, yellow and orange we added cool blue and purple colors. In the center, there is a grand piano — in the evenings, guests can enjoy live music. Using the materials from the Decorici company, artist Evgenia Lampitskaya created a stucco decor and gradient for the second floor.
The two-level restaurant space with an atrium in the center represents a play of color and light. Under a different angle of illumination the walls here change their color, the selfie spot beckons to capture your face in the bend of an unusual lamp, and the multicolored canvases of chandeliers resemble either rolled dough, or bright clothes that dry on a rope after a big Italian wash. This composition, made to order by the KIRINI glassblowing workshop and located in the zone of the open to below, creates many different images and gives free rein to imagination.
The interior has several other art objects, which are a composition of a lamp and two rotating glasses with a dichroic film. By turning the lamp, guests can create different light patterns on the walls thus changing the mood in the restaurant. Mirrors here are made of the same material — they change guests’ perception of the color and let visitors see themselves literally in a new perspective. These elements add to the concept of changes which will be noticed only by the most attentive visitors.
Special attention was given to the light — in cooperation with the Yarko-Yarko team and the Aledo company, the lighting was selected in a way to maintain a comfortable atmosphere throughout the day in the restaurant.
The walls and furniture upholstery contrast with various metal surfaces. Brass, copper, mirrors, stucco decor, flowing and smooth color gradients — variable light makes the interior dynamic or put it another way changeable, if you follow the concept of Nome and call things by their proper names.
