Little one Studio appears to be like to employee’s cafes for pink interiors of London’s Humble Pizza
Sweet pink Formica surfaces assist Little one Studio channel the look of a 1950s cafe inside this vegan pizza place in west London.
Humble Pizza is located on King’s Street, a boutique-lined avenue in London’s prosperous Chelsea neighbourhood, and boasts a menu of completely plant-based pizzas.
Its nearly fully pink interiors have been designed by Little one Studio to emulate the aesthetic of the workmen’s cafes, generally often known as greasy spoons, which sprung up throughout London within the 1950s.
These cafes served no-frills food and drinks and usually featured pastel-coloured surfaces made out of Formica – a laminated composite materials invented in 1912.
“We’ve lengthy been drawn to the cinematic high quality of London’s Formica cafes, the duality of modernist design language and the playful, nearly cartoonish spirit,” defined Chieh Huang and Alexey Kostikov, who head up the studio.
“This undertaking goals to create a up to date model of this distinctive typology.”
Other than the white tile flooring, surfaces all through the eatery are clad with cherry wood-framed panels of pink Formica.
The fabric has additionally been used to cowl the counter tops of the round eating tables and the service desk that sits beside the doorway.
The studio labored intently with the Formica manufacturing unit to provide the panels a refined, linen-like sample.
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A candy-pink seating banquette runs in direction of the rear of the eatery, the place a partition with a recessed rectangular opening appears to be like via to a forest-green kitchen.
The highest and backside of the opening have been fitted with lights to attract consideration to the cooks at work, creating what the studio hopes might be a “cinematic focus”.
Decor is offered by pink broadsheet newspapers which were hung intermittently throughout the partitions and an array of pink ornaments that line the cabinets. A classic lamp by Italian designer Luigi Massoni and a neon textual content signal denoting the eatery’s slogan have additionally been included as further visible nods to the previous.
Pink additionally extends to the entrance facade of the eatery, which was stripped again to disclose the unique timber panelling and ironwork.
In addition to interiors, Little one Studio additionally designs objects – again in 2017 it created a set of globe-shaped lamps that seemed to be precariously balanced on their bases.
Pink continues to be a preferred color of alternative for architects and designers finishing eateries.
Different examples embrace a hummus deli in Paris designed by Studio Sur Rue with rose-coloured partitions and a farm-to-table restaurant in Boston by ASH NYC with blush-coloured furnishings.