Project Café del Sol
Year 2017
Type Hospitality design
Location Athens, Greece
For this popular café and bar in Athens we took our design cues from the brand colour, a soft olive green, and the nearby metro train station and tunnel.
We created a tunnel surrounding the kitchen/bar and WC, then the space forms a second cylinder to soften the edges and play with hidden lighting on the wall. A dark grey mirror on the rear wall reflects the cylinders endlessly, making the small space appear much larger. Curvaceous Spanish pendant lighting and geometric wallpaper in a large-scale pattern add playful elements.
The dramatic bar lighting was created using three layers of translucent acrylic panels, two plain coloured with a honeycomb layer in between.
Central to space is a mounted round aquarium, dividing the more private areas from the open front area where pedestrians pass by.