6 Eye-Catching Restaurants

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1. Designer: Hacin + Associates. 

Project: Glass House.

Site: Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Standout: Harking back to the era when glass was manufactured nearby, there’s a nostalgia to the photomurals, which mix with the green tones of a grandmother’s kitchen.

2. Designer: Felderman Keatinge & Associates.

Project: Drago Ristorante.

Site: Los Angeles.

Standout: The stripes of a mural, printed on linen, represent the energy of motion, as befits a location inside the Petersen Automotive Museum by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates.

3. Designer: DesignAgency.

Project: STK Toronto.

Site: Toronto, Canada.

Standout: Painted reinforced gypsum forms arches that sweep across the ceiling as well as down structural columns clad in porcelain tile that looks like marble. 

4. Designer: Masquespacio.

Project: Hikari Yakitori Bar.

Site: Valencia, Spain.

Standout: Re-creating the visual cacophony of Tokyo’s neon signs, acrylic panels sandwiching LED strips mix with traditional Japanese-style lanterns. 

5. Designer: Laboratory for Visionary Architecture.

Project: Olio Kensington Street.

Site: Chippendale, Australia.

Standout: The ceiling canopy is painted in a green approximating the shade of extra-virgin olive oil, a key ingredient in the establishment’s Sicilian cuisine. 

6. Designer: MariaGroup.

Project: Skirt Beirut.

Site: Lebanon.

Standout: Mismatched Danish mid-century chairs bring variety to a pair of identical communal tables topped in cast concrete.

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