How to Interior Design a 4-Star Restaurant
An interior designer tackles all kinds of jobs, but designing a 4-star restaurant is one of the best assignments, allowing for maximum budget, maximum creativity and maximum wow. The project is likely to become a highlight of your design portfolio.
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Consult with the owner. Your design should start with his vision. For example, the three restaurants owned by Chef Emeril Lagasse in New Orleans all exude some aspect of his famous over-the-top style: the blond wood and iron accents of Emeril's New Orleans exemplifies the bold Creole flavors of his New Orleans style. Lagasse's Nola Restaurant, in the heart of the French Quarter, features a building stripped to the essentials. Lagasse's Delmonico's features Victorian touches, such as chandeliers and elegant formal spaces.
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Consider understatement if the food is over-the-top. The Fat Duck, Heston Blumenthal's wild, experimental restaurant in Bray, Berkshire, UK, with its snail porridge and bacon and egg ice cream, boasts the unassuming facade of an English country inn.
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Carry the theme throughout the furnishings. If the restaurant features a steakhouse theme, join paneling of reclaimed barn boards such Long Leaf Lumber uses, or consider Colonial designs in lighting, such as those by Authentic Designs (see Resources below). Modern dried flower arrangements in warm colors extending into the red can balance against light blue table service and cream- or butter-colored French doors.
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Finish off your design with furnishings that provide visual interest for the diner. In addition to commissioned pieces and estate sale finds, The Museum Store Company supplies reproductions of museum artifacts to commercial clients.
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