SWITZERLAND

Innovation and Creativity

The visual rhythm of the restaurant’s spacious hall is punctuated by attention-grabbing round columns. They are clad with bottle glass-colored bricks, custom-made by the Italian brand Poesia Glass. Each brick has a slight rounding radius so that it fits perfectly with the round shape of the column. One cannot pass by without touching its cool glass surface. The lighting systems inside each column create a soft, natural gradient of green color.

The round wine room of unique construction is hidden inside the column with the largest diameter. Inside it, around its perimeter, there are shelves with wine and a spiral staircase. Popular and more affordable wines are stored on the bottom shelves, and exquisite and collectible grades are on the top. The wine room capacity is 3500 bottles. Its full weight is more than 20 tons, and its height is 6 meters.

The other round columns covered with small-scale terracotta tiles serve as the waiter stations. We applied the Ukrainian tradition of covering fireplaces and furnaces with tiles. We ordered a kind of traditional tile but with a slight radius in its shape from the local ceramic workshop.

One more spot of the restaurant that is totally worth attention is the farthest wall covered with glass slabs of copper shade. Some of the slabs have unique floristic patterns of imprinted local herbs. No pattern repeats. Two thousand glass slabs are installed on the dynamic constructions so you can move each of them up and down and lock on different angles. It allows everyone to create different patterns on the wall and involves visitors interacting with the space. The wall with its adjustive image is our metaphor of reeds moved by the wind.

The roomy terrace with American sweetgum trees extends the restaurant space. We aimed to make the smooth flow between the inside and outside spaces to make guests embrace harmony and inner peace.