French inside designer Marion Mailaender accomplished a seafood bar in Paris known as Citrons et Huîtres, which options oyster-shaped doorknobs and a stainless-steel counter knowledgeable by fishmongers.
Mailaender, who makes a speciality of creating areas “with an incredible humorousness,” designed the bar to resemble a raised sales space, the place friends can dine inside or seize platters of oysters and shellfish.
Citrons et Huîtres has a uncooked metal facade knowledgeable by native fishmongers’ storefronts, which have floor-to-ceiling home windows that open onto the streets of Paris.
Friends enter the bar via a door with a bronze oyster shell deal with, whereas an identical neon signal above the bar’s identify is fastened to the facade.
Inside, the area has a vaulted ceiling that reaches greater than 4 and a half meters excessive, which is painted blue together with the partitions to create the impression of being “immersed in an incredible aquarium”, the homeowners stated.
The partitions are embellished with prints by Mailaender’s husband, the artist Thomas Mailaender, who used a cyanotype printing course of courting again to 1842 to supply ethereal blue pictures of coastal scenes.
Counter tops are rendered in stainless-steel and completed with a “pearlescent sheen,” whereas coral-colored stools line the bar.
The bar serves native French oysters from Brittany, introduced on stainless-steel trays that complement the inside.
“Like a market stall with its stainless-steel seafood counter, Citrons et Huîtres invitations friends to savor probably the most unimaginable oysters whereas having fun with a glass of white,” defined the bar’s homeowners.
The identify Citrons et Huîtres was chosen to consult with a nonetheless life by the French impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, who as soon as had his studio in the identical constructing that now homes the oyster bar.
“On the peak of his glory in 1900, Renoir created Citrons et Huîtres, a chunk of artwork celebrating probably the most stunning crustaceans, labeled as a nationwide heritage of French artwork,” the homeowners stated.
Different oyster bars with food-informed interiors embrace Vancouver’s ShuckShuck, which is crossed by a curved concrete counter, and Atlanta’s Watchman’s, with its “nautical spare” interiors.
The picture is by Thomas Tissandier.