Montreal-based structure workplace Future Easy Studio has designed minimalist interiors with white oak and textured concrete for a sushi restaurant in Quebec Metropolis.
At Sushibox, on the outskirts of town, Future Easy Studio renovated and expanded the eating house to enhance the menu by chef Patrick Landry.
Utilizing sturdy strains, pure textures and impartial tones, the workforce created a “concurrently brutalist and serene ambiance” that runs all through the three,500-square-foot (325-square-metre) house.
“With geometric shapes, elemental supplies and handcrafted particulars, the transportive design permits the colors and textures of the delicacies itself to shine,” stated the studio. “Right here, design and meals unite to create an distinctive sensory expertise.”
Entry is thru a vestibule surrounded by black-framed tightly fluted glass, which opens to the reception space.
This house additionally serves because the pick-up location for take-out orders, which may be retrieved from a black-topped concrete counter with a painterly textured entrance crafted by artist Zian Miscioscia.
“Within the takeout space, the tones are impartial, the lighting is brilliant, and vertical blinds permit for stunning slats of sunshine to brush towards friends as they place their orders,” stated Future Easy Studio.
A round portal, harking back to the moon gates present in conventional East Asian structure, results in the eating space by way of a brief flight of steps.
The concrete counter continues via the edge and ultimately jumps down in top to offer a bar overlooking the open kitchen behind.
Delicate pendant lights by David Pompa, with twin globes of lava stone and lightweight bulbs stacked at their ends, kind a neat row above every seat alongside the bar counter.
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To supply storage for the kitchen, a system of cabinets constituted of white oak batons can be suspended from the ceiling above stainless-steel prep counters.
Extra white oak panels kind a bench that wraps across the eating space to serve a number of tables, that are divided by vertical sheets of translucent cloth.
Future Easy Studio was based in 2018 by Christine Djerrahian with companion Ernst van ter Beek, and has places of work in each Montreal and New York.
The agency beforehand designed a household house inside a 100-year-old heritage constructing close to Montreal’s Outdated Port district.
Many sushi eating places have minimalist interiors influenced by the design fashion that is widespread in Japan, the place the delicacies originated.
Examples all over the world embody a darkish and dramatic spot in The Dubai Mall, the Oku restaurant in Mexico Metropolis the place “floating tables” are product of wooden and metal, and the Sticks n Sushi restaurant in London that blends Japanese and Danish design influences.
The pictures is by Félix Michaud.
