Project Team

design: Luchetti Krelle

Suppliers

suppliers
furniture: Kezu, Cafe Culture + Insitu, Hughes Furniture Group,
IMO, Zaffero, Canalside
lighting: The Lighting Guild, Euroluce
Photographer: Michael Wee

A pared back and considered design, ACME is a restaurant that makes the most of the building’s existing features and heritage. The client’s brief was for a refined and yet casual space where the food is to be the hero.

The restaurant is split into three distinct spaces over two levels.

The front bar is a casual dining experience with high top tables and window seating that open out to the street front and passers-by. Above the tables sit custom ‘dynamite’ pendants, a cheeky reference to the
ACME of Looney Tunes. The surrounding walls have been left untreated, showing glimpses of exposed plaster behind stripped paint. We have set mirrors within existing arches. These halo lit mirrors are
positioned at opposing sides of the room and give a sense of openness to the space.

Set amongst this is a small practical bar with stools cantilevered off the quilted metal bar front.

For the more formal dining space with views to the open kitchen, banquette seating with dark timber tables sit within fresco-paint finished walls that tie into the rough plaster of the front room.

Downstairs, the private dining room is a raw and intimate space with sandstone fireplace and exposed walls. As you descend from the stairs, you are greeted with an island bench and wine display for diners to gather around for a pre dinner drink. Diners are then ushered towards the custom-designed extendable table feature. The striking table has collapsible ends allowing for flexibility depending on group sizes.

This room is made larger by the mirrored niche at the end of the table, which gives both the illusion of space and makes another ACME reference – that of Wile E Coyote’s tunnel perspectives.

These subtle and playful details give ACME a smart and relaxed atmosphere.

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Cacao Stool

A retro style characterizes the Cacao collection which consists of a chair, stool and armchair.

Hughes Furniture Group