Ukraine’s “100 years in the past sooner or later” restaurant combines previous and current

Balbek Bureau has designed the interiors of a restaurant in Kiev that includes conventional Ukrainian types, supplies and hues in a recent manner.

Referred to as 100 Rokiv Tomu Vpered, which interprets from Ukrainian as “100 years in the past sooner or later”, the restaurant has a menu that includes fashionable updates on conventional Ukrainian dishes.

Kiev-based Balbek Bureau stated that it wished the inside to comply with this theme of “making a connection between historic previous and revolutionary current of Ukraine”.

The 260-square-metre restaurant is break up between two ranges. A eating room, banquet corridor, and bar space are situated on the bottom flooring, whereas a smaller eating room and a kitchen are situated on the primary flooring the place giant home windows present loads of pure gentle.

For instance, the restaurant’s partitions, flooring and furnishings are completed in light-ochre tones accented with clusters of purple – a color scheme sometimes used to make conventional Ukrainian embroidered shirts.

On the restaurant’s first flooring the accents of purple are offered by chairs with outsized seat cushions designed by Slava Balbek for his furnishings model Propro.

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The design of the big eating desk and benches is impressed by the outdated inside however its white end and clear traces allow it to mix inside the new fashionable setting.

The design incorporates pure supplies equivalent to oak flooring and wall paneling in addition to a chilled impartial color palette that mixes ochre, sienna and uncooked umber-coloured funriture. Tables are individually lit to create a heat and welcoming atmosphere.

Balbek Bureau additionally used loads of pure textures together with driftwood lighting, bullrushes and potted ferns to evoke the ambiance of an enchanted forest.

Separated from the primary areas of the restaurant by a folding wood display, the banquet corridor on the bottom flooring is used for personal events and masterclasses run by restaurant chef Yevgeniy Klopotenko.

The banquet corridor options robust colors equivalent to burnt sienna alongside pure supplies, clinker tiles and mushy, comfy furnishings.

A set of vintage family objects are displayed throughout a wall created from wood shingles that have been salvaged throughout the demolition of an outdated native home.

“The design theme displays the primary goal of the restaurant operations – to advertise Ukrainian conventional delicacies by a contemporary and inventive strategy to meals consumption,” defined the design crew.

“The ‘Fairytale forest’ grew to become the inside design theme, that includes crops which are native to Ukraine – fern, bulrush, ears of wheat.”

The Kiev-based designers additionally not too long ago accomplished Grammarly’s workplace within the Ukrainian capital, which incorporates its personal convention corridor, nap pods, and a soundproof music room.

Pictures is by Yevhenii Avramenko.