Coming into Shirokuro, the brand new Japanese Omakase restaurant in New York, you’d have forgiven that you simply thought you have been misplaced in a sketchpad or black and white storyboard. Aside from an eclectic Glob gentle vary, some coloured ceramic dishes and open kitchen, the whole restaurant is performed as a 2D drawing.
“Shirokuro” interprets to “black and white”. New York Occasions Actions that proprietor James Lim was impressed by an immersive, 2D restaurant, which he visited ten years in the past in Korea, and he thought-about considered one of them, now opened in East Village. As a way to make the inside pop, he invited the buddy, the actual property agent and the artist Mirim Yoo, to show the house into an all-encompassing setting.
The colourful dishes are complemented by hand -drawn flooring modeled as wood boards and Japanese icons on the partitions, equivalent to bonsai, tea vessels, cherry blossoms and Ukiyo-e compositions. “Our imaginative and prescient was to supply one thing distinctive: a spot the place artwork and meals intersect in a sketch, respiration,” says the restaurant.
You may additionally benefit from the full makeover of the Doodle Home or at Anastasia Parmson’s drawn installations.
