The storied location of this brasserie in Paris impressed inside studio B3 Designers to fill the restaurant with tasselled chairs, disco balls and different flamboyant decor.
Brasserie des Pres is about in Paris’s Latin Quarter, which was a hub of creativity all through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, its cafes crammed with artists, publishers and distinguished writers together with Ernest Hemingway and Jean-Paul Sartre.
London-based studio B3 Designers aimed to infuse this identical buzzy atmosphere into the quarter’s newest eatery, undeterred by its awkwardly slim interiors.
“Brasserie des Pres has a really distinctive ground print and we have used the prevailing structure to create layers of eating experiences,” the studio mentioned. “We have created a sense of neighborhood and delight, a welcoming backdrop to the good meals served right here.”
Lush with greenery, the outside of the restaurant includes a striped orange awning and traditional Parisian terrace seating.
As soon as friends step inside, they discover themselves in a big eating room with red-panelled partitions, inset with mirrored cabinets that show an assortment of shapely glass vessels.
Ornamental tiles depicting limes, lemons and oranges are included on the prime of every panel.
Tables all through the room are dressed with white linen cloths and bijou brass lamps, nodding to the desk set-up of the Latin Quarter’s conventional eateries.
Company even have the choice to sit down at a excessive marble counter that straight overlooks Brasserie des Pres’s bustling kitchen or get pleasure from a drink on the bar, which is fronted by velvet-lined orange stools.
Extra eating house is supplied on the primary ground, the place the cabinets alongside the partitions are crammed with vintage books and candelabras to imitate the worldly look of a cupboard of curiosities.
Lastly, on the highest ground of the restaurant is a lounge-style house the place friends can loosen up whereas choosing tracks from the brasserie’s vinyl report library.
A curtained partition will be drawn again to disclose a secret bar, full with a mirrored ceiling. From its centre hangs a cluster of disco balls, enclosed by a round neon signal that spells the phrase groovy.
A luxurious, crimson banquet winds across the periphery of the house, accompanied by matching tassel-backed chairs and marble tables.
Even the bathrooms at this stage are completed with eccentric particulars together with a pearl-laden chandelier that droops above the washbasin and surreal gold-framed work that depict the eyes of “unsung Parisian anti-heroes”, in keeping with B3 Designers.
Paris’s wealthy culinary scene is consistently increasing.
Different spots which have lately opened up across the metropolis embrace Citrons et Huîtres, an oyster bar that is designed to resemble a fishmonger, and Chinese language restaurant Bao Categorical, which has a retro inside knowledgeable by Hong Kong diners of the Seventies.
The images is by Vincent Remy and Joann Pai.
