Pink partitions, carpet and fabric outline this intimate restaurant and cocktail bar in Richmond, Virginia, designed by regionally based mostly Studio Tarea.
Pink Room was created in a former studio residence, remodeled into what Studio Tarea describes as “a 90s fever dream the place you’ll be able to have a cocktail constituted of concrete”.
The staff renovated the area for chef Brittanny Anderson, creating an 18-seat restaurant by which she will cook dinner a weekly up to date menu whereas conversing along with her company.
“Between the low timeline, the small footprint, and the shopper’s imaginative and prescient of brilliant colours and funky textures, it was a check for us,” stated studio co-founder Nolan Beck Rivera.
With associate Cameron Billinghurst, the studio seemed to women’ bedrooms within the Nineties that featured Spice Women posters and fluffy bedding as major references.
The purpose was to raise this nostalgic aesthetic with supplies together with glass and polished metallic to offset the brilliant colors and plush textures. “We discovered a pleasant steadiness between our modernist tastes and Brittanny’s maximalist imaginative and prescient,” Rivera stated.
Bulky-piled carpet with colour-blocked patterning varieties a tender overlaying throughout the ground, serving to to dampen acoustic echoes
Throughout the ceiling, a collage created by artist Monsieur Zohore depicts ladies in popular culture with meals.
From the compact kitchen, meals is plated and handed to a peninsula with bar seats for 4, or served to the 5 glass and metallic tables.
Two four-tops are positioned within the centre of the room, whereas three two-tops share a cushioned and upholstered banquette alongside the wall.
Enormous home windows are veiled in silver-bead curtains that partially conceal the view from the road.
Smoked polycarbonate sliding doorways disguise the powder room, within the residence’s former rest room previous the kitchen, the place a classic mirror hangs above basin.
A trio of polished nickel sconces are mounted on the eating room wall, whereas three shiny ceramic pendants hold above the peninsula.
Extra cove and under-shelf lighting glow orange and pink because the night service attracts later, including to the expertise.
“A part of the expertise of consuming there may be trying round on the distinctive airy fixtures, looking for the hidden Miss Piggies, recognizing pop-culture references,” stated Rivera.
“Clearly Brittanny’s meals is the centrepiece, however the interiors actually complement it.”
Pink in its many shades is a well-liked selection for restaurant decor, from Ken Fulk’s pastel-hued Swan in Miami to the daring monochrome JAM Document Bar in Sydney by Akin Atelier.
In the meantime, different eateries which have taken a distinct monochromatic method embody the all-blue Solely Love Strangers in Manhattan’s Decrease East Aspect, and the buttery yellow San Sabino the West Village.
