Concrete, metal and exposed fixtures were paired with Cantonies craft details and bright Neon Light to give Chinese restaurant Ban House disco in London An industrial party feels.
Located at the top of the brick lane in the shoredich region of London, Ban House Disco Ban House’s sister is a restaurant in Chintown.
Restarteur and Designer Z he wanted the new place to have a different experience on the chinatown site and work with textural contrast to create the right energy.
“Disco ‘is a straightforward clash of the East-Meet-Industrial’,” he told Dechen. “We took the industrial bones of Shoreditch and broke them with the expansion and jewelery of Cantonies crafts.”
He said, “This is contrary to our Chintown site, with a tea parlor’s bed summer,” he said, who installed the restaurant with her husband Alex Pephli.
“Here, it is about the juxtaposition of all text energy: neon light on handmade tiles, concrete next to ornate patterns, and a rhythm in space that matches the beat of the disco playlist.”
The purpose of restaurants, which serve street food, including Wonten, Noodles and Custard Buns, also aim to incite the feeling of Hong Kong through the use of a color palette with a party vibe.
“We have always worked with red and green – it’s in our DNA – but for the disco we cooled the tone, made them sharp, moodier,” he said.
“This is a palette directly from the neon nights of Hong Kong: the colors that do not just sit on the walls, but glow with glow and shift with shifts,” he said.
“With neon, red deepens, greens punch is hard, and hums with a sexy glowing place.”
Inside the Ban House Disco, simple metal and wooden chairs are combined with a canteen-style red floor and strip-back walls.
These industrial details were paired with glazed green-white tiles at the entrance of the restaurant.
“Aadhaar is raw – concrete, exposed steel, hard finished – but we put a material that is not traditionally not in such a setting,” he said.
“The most prominent examples are the Shivan-Glased Ceramic Les Window Tiles at the entrance, which are handmade in collaboration with a master of my hometown in Guangdong.”
The designers wanted the space “hard and soft, old and new” to be a mixture, including a disco ball and decorative details including “fully incomplete” colored paper lanterns.
“I found him behind an Asian grocery store in the US years ago, shook on a dusty shelf,” he said. “They spend nothing next to nothing, but they were gold for me. I bought them all, knowing that they would find their moment.”
“In disco, they hang like a small burst of apathy similar to dreams, cut through concrete and steel and bring human touch back into space.”
She hopes that the overall design will create an experience that combines an industrial interior with a traditional craftsmanship.
He said, “We wanted guests to feel the moment of incompatibility and happiness: a neon-jala, step through an industrial place and finding the details that whispering the traditional Cantonies craftsmanship whispering craftsmanship, all are ready for a disco beat,” he concluded.
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Photography is by Tony Mak.
