MUSEa brand new restaurant in Santa Monica, California, evokes friends with culinary delights and artistic endeavors in a bejeweled setting. Mark Angelof his namesake agency, was invited to check the area by chef-owner Fardad Khayami as a showcase for his contemporary tackle beach-town French delicacies.
The epicure and the designer share comparable influences, so for each, the collaboration was a perfect one. The chef combines the tastes of Italy, the place Ange was born, with the normal dishes of France, the place he grew up. With workplaces in Paris and Los Angeles, Ange naturally understands this cross-cultural aesthetic and was eager to seize it for the restaurant's interiors.
His influences had been many for this hospitality challenge, from basic European type to coastal stylish, which blends into the intimate area. “There are parts of 1970s Italian sexiness and French magnificence with a contact of LA that create one thing fully modern,” says Ange.
The 35-seat most important eating room exudes relaxed glamour. This central space is wrapped in white oak (the colours are clad in walnut) and mixed with a colour palette of heat gold, sienna and beige tones that improve the intimacy of the area. This wealthy backdrop serves to focus on the spectacular, rotating artwork assortment that’s unique to the restaurant. For its debut, MUSE presents unique works by the well-known Catalan-Spanish artist Joan Miró.
The comfy nooks double as a gallery for the items, immediately recognizable for his or her mixture of the summary with the surrealist fantasy that the painter-sculptor favored. Miró's signature splashes of major crimson, blue, and yellow deliver simply sufficient vibrant colour, however by no means overpowering. It's a real feast for the senses because the creative presentation is discovered not solely on the plates but in addition on the partitions.
Layers of texture make the compact restaurant appear bigger. Refined curves grace the plush velvet upholstered furnishings. Millwork boasts a collection of butterflies and pleats that repeat elsewhere, which eliminates any laborious edges. This gives a pure, enveloping fluidity as guests mingle or sit and chat on the four-seat bar.
With an array of cozy nooks, the cocoon-like setting invitations dialog and luxury. The temper is lifted by sculptural fixtures and bespoke furnishings. The objects, additionally designed by Ange, mirror the opposite segments within the restaurant, linked by the widespread threads of form and proportion.
Fantino chandeliers forged a heat glow from above, and the fixtures mirror the form of the chair of the identical identify, which has a particular bifurcated again. A personal room is slated to open later this fall, which Ange designed as an extension of the restaurant, however with its personal distinctive twist. “All the pieces at MUSE is about artwork and design, but brings its personal surprises,” provides Ange.
For extra on Marc Ange, go to marc-ange.com.
Picture by Pablo Enriquez.
