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The stunning transformation of Sydney's historic CarriageWorks continues with the arts centre, now home to a white, bright and welcoming restaurant. John and Peter Canteen is a catering business that has expanded to serve lunch and dinner.
BKH has designed a space with white fringe trim hangs from scaffolding and studio lights and there are striking black and white print cushions and stripey banquettes.
It's a glamorous yet comforatble affair.
Iain Halliday of BKH has referenced 1970s domestic spaces within a rustic industrial shell. Surfaces are deliberately fresh and predominantly white with strong black and white graphic patterns in
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the form of Marimekko and Fornasetti print to cushions, tabletops and banquette upstairs. Furniture is also classic mid 20th Century; Saarinen and Scandinavian spindle back chairs all painted gloss white.
The main dining area sits stage-like on a raised podium with a banquette surround, mirrored above by a box truss holding stage lights fringed, theatre style, with slit drapes, creating a form of "vertical containment" and a sense of intimacy.
A central, round Carrara marble-topped table acts as a foil to the otherwise square tables in the main dining area to prevent the space feeling overdesigned. |
