* Mention of Honor at the IV Mexican Interior Designers Biennal

The project is an evaluation of the old versus new, it is in essence a super imposition of the nostalgic image of past memories and contemporaneousness, as well as the need to be welcome like at home.  The concept is complex and full of eclectic ideas about the glamour and flashlights.  It is an intermediate search for playfulness, the fashion and the social constraint.  The place generates face to face ideas from the client, for the need of an alternative space on contemporariness but never exclusive place for all type of social groups. The main idea follows those characteristics of a cabaret, full of fabrics and color red. The design is generated through memories for the chic, those on spectacle, as one strong influence from those New York ideas on setting a theater; and to create an alive and daily performance, without going strictly to the idea of theme.

The general idea is centered on the conception of a wall and ceiling in a capitone style which become furniture and setting. The wall and ceiling contrast the logic of the stage and create a routine around it which is attached to a collective image: the living room.  The production of the centerpiece is a direct reference to baroque images, red colors and French looms utilized specifically with a clear idea to imitate and to dislocate the visual interior.  This is achieved through the mirrors on the walls and the advantage of the original building’s glass facade.  The functions although restrictive spatially speaking, constituted the essence of the welcoming effect, the home alike feeling, those for touch in an intimate and relaxed atmosphere.  It is a project without changes since its conception to its execution by being sharply clear, by the approach to the utopia of the client on the intimate, the social and the joyful.  The bar maintains its social effect, intellectual conversations and jazz fills each space, which, along with the design conjugates a unique atmosphere, formally phenomenological and functionally playful.