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Chō | Asian Bistro&Bar

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JURY VOTES
Restaurant
5.64
6.00
5.86
5.29
5.7
Kajsa Krause
Kajsa Krause Design Principal at Champalimaud Design
5
6.5
5.5
5
5.5
Peng You
Peng You Co-founder and CEO at Benwu Studio
6
6.5
6
6.5
6.25
Claudio Fiore Massenz
Claudio Fiore Massenz Sustainability Design Expert for the Built Environment at PVH Corp.
5
6
5
5
5.25
Eric Ch
Eric Ch CEO at Still Young
5
6
5
5.5
5.38
Nicky Drobis
Nicky Drobis Partner at Fender Katsalidis
5
4.5
6.5
5
5.25
Marta Nunez Anton
Marta Nunez Anton Associate Interior Designer at AECOM @ ID+S
7
6
6
5
6
Emily White
Emily White Experiential Design Lead at Deloitte Digital
A beautiful palette....
5
6
5
5
5.25
Huang	Jianfeng
Huang Jianfeng Founder and Creative Director at ONE-CU Interior Design Lab
5
6
5.5
5
5.38
Thomas Danet
Thomas Danet Design Director at Jones Lang LaSalle
It's a great concept to make the op...
6
5.5
6
6
5.88
Gijs Baks
Gijs Baks Founder at Space Encounters
Terracotta grey and good light. Goo...
6
6
6
5
5.75
Ying Sun
Ying Sun Senior Interior Architect at Spotify
6
7
7
5
6.25
Stephanie Lund
Stephanie Lund Cofounder and Creative Director at toi toi toi creative studio
Beautiful color palette. Interestin...
7
6
6
5
6
Marianne Stroyeva
Marianne Stroyeva Senior Retail Design Manager at adidas
The material and colour pallet is b...
5
5.5
6.5
5
5.5
Matt Parry
Matt Parry CEO at The Future Collective
6
6.5
6
6
6.13
Designer
Client
Boris
Floor area
74 ㎡
Completion
2022
Budget
240 000$
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Pan-Asian bistro “Chō” (butterfly) by “Fluffy Fluffy”. The road from weightless pancakes to gastronomy can be compared to how a caterpillar turns into a butterfly. Studio KIDZ used the Asian butterfly “Attacus atlas” as the basis of the concept. Its terracotta shade formed the basis of the interior’s color palette, and the butterfly’s characteristics are not straightforwardly interpreted in each element of the interior. 

The idea is built around the four states of a butterfly's life: caterpillar, chrysalis, young and mature butterflies - this is an independent life cycle. The cycles are reflected by the states of materials: from stone to stainless steel, and from clay to Corten steel. Above the bar there is a suspended undulating structure made of stainless steel, reflecting the flight path of a butterfly frozen in an instant.

 Entering the restaurant, a small vestibule with a linen curtain does not immediately give us a glimpse of the room. The curtain from the open door develops, and we see scraps of the interior through the materials: stone, wood, and steel. We need to let the guest begin exploring the interior by touching the natural linen. Walking into the interior, we enter the corten shell as if we were a mature butterfly ourselves. The shadows of the corten panels shifted relative to one another like a camouflage pattern on the wings of an Attacus atlas. 

In the back of the room is the intimate area of the restaurant - the space for the restroom. A steel monolithic sink immediately attracts attention, and in contrast to it, a small mirror descends from the ceiling on a three-meter pipe, repeating the circle pattern of glass blocks. On the right side of the sink are the doors to the latrines. Choosing the left door, the visitor will find a highlight - a mirror with worn amalgam around the perimeter, reminiscent of special butterflies with translucent wings. 

Functionally, the hall is built around an open kitchen, where chefs in branded T-shirts cook intently. The rest of the staff moves into the closed part of the kitchen, made of glass blocks, through which the shadows of people are visible. Diners become spectators of the food being prepared, seated in semi-bar seating behind the stone-topped open kitchen. The main seats go along the hall’s perimeter: on the long side - the dining group alternates with tables of various shapes, tables made of walnut veneer, and on the short side with tables made using the “Kintsugi” technique.