Blue trim and terracotta tiles enliven Vancouver tapas joint by Ste Marie
Vancouver studio Ste Marie has designed a restaurant within the metropolis wrapped in tiles as a riff on cosy, compact Spanish tapas bars.
The native design studio modelled the eatery Como Taperia on Spain’s “standing-room-only” tapas bars in locations like Barcelona’s vigorous Poble Sec neighbourhood and Madrid’s La Latina district.
“At Como, our objective was to supply an informal spot that purchasers may loosen up, have a little bit enjoyable, and revel in themselves,” mentioned Ste Marie’s Rachel Martinuk, who led the design. “That is all.”
“These areas are tight, acoustics are loud, and chances are you’ll or will not be supplied a spot to sit down, favouring dialog and group over intimacy and luxury,” the agency added.
Sq., terracotta tiles line the vast majority of the partitions. The higher parts painted white to maintain the house feeling recent, full with polished concrete flooring.
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This materiality of Como Taperia references the three brick chimneys of Barcelona’s industrial Poble Sec energy station, within the space of Jardins de les three Xemeneies.
Vibrant blue is used for trim, in the meantime, and is a reference to the cobalt utilized by the late Spanish painter Joan Miró. The summary and geometric particulars within the cafe have been additionally knowledgeable by notable Spaniards Salvador Dali and Antoni Gaudí.
The cafe is a “homage to all we love about Spain,” mentioned Ste Marie.
The 1,400-square-foot (130-square-metre) restaurant is an oblong house and contains a set of excessive tables with stools, and a built-in upholstered sales space that gives decrease cushioned seating.
Accents of terracotta and darkish purple enliven the decor, whereas moments of brown marble and light-weight wooden panelling improve to the materiality of the challenge.
The restaurant’s kitchen is hid by a counter with a quantity that extends down from the ceiling.
A portion of the storage quantity has a drawing on the backside with natural shapes in blue and purple, evocative of work by German-French modernist Jean Arp.
Along with this tapas spot, Ste Marie has developed quite a few artistic ideas for different eateries within the Canadian metropolis, together with a restaurant primarily based on a fictional muse and an Italian cafe designed as if was the house of a fox.
Images is by Conrad Brown.
Mission credit:
Design principal: Craig Stanghetta
Design lead: Rachel Martinuk
Model and graphic design: Glasfurd & Walker
Styling: Kate Richard