White & The Bear youngsters’s restaurant has white surfaces and timber furnishings

Sneha Divias Atelier has swapped stereotypical main colors for impartial tones inside this restaurant in Dubai, which is designed particularly for youngsters.

Positioned in Dubai’s Jumeirah district, White & The Bear has been designed by Sneha Divias Atelier with “urbane” interiors that keep away from the intense shades often used inside child-focused areas.

The restaurant and retail house is as an alternative decked out with impartial colors and supplies that, in keeping with the studio, will foster youngsters’s curiosity.

“On the atelier we chosen such distinct palettes for youths’ areas to not overstimulate the senses,” defined the studio.

“As an alternative, the color scheme promotes creativity, creativeness, and studying.”

The bottom ground of the constructing has been made right into a singular open-plan house with all-white surfaces.

One half of the room is devoted to the restaurant, which is able to provide a menu of wholesome meals specifically curated by a youngsters’s nutritionist. Timber has been used to kind a grooved espresso counter the place visiting dad and mom can seize a sizzling drink and a sequence of tiny, animal-shaped seats for youths.

Among the chairs that includes curving arms and a rear central leg to look like an elephant, whereas others have bunny or bear-like ears extending from the backrests.

A flock of bird-shaped pendant lamps and mirrors printed with peeking bears have additionally been used to convey a enjoyable really feel to the house.

“John Pawson mentioned youngsters love minimalist areas. And he is proper”

The opposite half of the room accommodates a small store the place clothes, books and toys are displayed on full-height gridded cabinets.

The store continues as much as the constructing’s first ground, which incorporates a big glass-fronted room that can be utilized for arts and crafts workshops or birthday events.

Connecting corridors are lined with books and have cushioned studying books inset into the partitions.

At this stage there may be additionally a nursing room the place moms can feed their younger infants in privateness, in addition to a rest room with lowered sink basins and bogs so that youngsters can use with ease.

“Kids ought to be left to discover their environment and discover their very own house the place they really feel snug,” the studio added.

“Our design is targeted on humanizing the inside structure, bringing a way of proportion and scale for youngsters to really feel built-in.”

A handful of different studios have taken a extra pared-back strategy to youngsters’s design. Early final yr, Danish model Ferm Residing created a minimalist play kitchen that may slot in small properties.

Kartell additionally produced an ultra-simplistic dolls home produced from candy-coloured plastic again in 2017.

Images is by Natelee Cocks.