Some places call for quiet.
Others run on sound and vibration.
Some bring people together.
Others make room to be alone.
Some places call for quiet.
Others run on sound and vibration.
Some bring people together.
Others make room to be alone.
A place takes shape slowly
Designing restaurants — bars, cafés — begins with listening. We watch. We move forward, we step back, we commit to a direction and hold to it. Designing a restaurant, a bar, a café is never an image laid over a plan. It’s a material worked over time. Sometimes a few hours. Sometimes a thousand, spread across years.
Everything counts. The banquette and its finish. The light set here rather than there. The counter, the sound, the flow of footsteps, the threshold between the intimate and the collective. We coordinate contractors, subtrades, materials whose finishes have to agree. We hold the budget, the code, the upkeep of the years to come.
From twenty-five seats to more than two hundred. From the street to the kitchens. A place like that lives collectively, from opening to close. Rarely dull.
Kaizen Café, Marisol Paella, Place Mont-Laurier, Tsukuyomi, Joccivano, Shosha, Pakita, Délithèque, Standard Café, Veston Vert Ruby’s, Abyss, Ganadara, Les 3 Brasseurs and more
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