lame

it's lame but it's gonna be a hit...

I was going to say the same thing...

…the bling factor is high and probably too cool for someone like me to be seen in:) I couldn't get the menu option to open…?? What is the menu like?

its like a drugged up ronchamp openings

the menu is broken...

actually, the menu just switches from text to the pictures of the menu...that's what i'm seeing with my internet connection at least...

yeah, and so is the concept...zing! ah, all in good fun, really:)

its all good katze..express them all...

Looks none too comfortable, but I'd give it a whirl. The ingots motif is vaguely amusing. I'm tempted to make a scatalogical remark about the rest rooms, along the lines of a line from *Amadeus* but I shalln't. The Starck hotel in Paris is more fun.

I'd throw a fish-eye on my cam, get some pics of myself reflected in the bling, and flee, never to return. What a disaster. The gold bar elevator indicator is depressing.

gold is sooooo 80's......

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dg is soo eurotrash

A few things:

First, I thought tman's first comment wasn't this lame but this lame. Sorry I don't know how to make the little accent over the e. Lame as in "gold lame trim on Britney's garter belt" which is also, IMO, lame.

Also, this line from Pynchon comes to mind, something about being decorated in "the essentially Reagan-era colors of silver and gold."

Back in the late 80s when weddings really started to get out of control there was a trend to decorate your cake with edible gold leaf. All the chefs were talking about how ingesting a little bit of gold won't hurt you. I felt sure that as a society we had gone way over the top in terms of conspicuous consumption at that point. Obviously I was wrong.

Is there such a thing as a poop-bomb? If so, I'd like to see someone drop such a thing on that place when it is in full swing.

And finally, there is really nothing in the least bit spatially or materially interesting about the place. Just looks like a lot of gold spray paint.

a nicely dressed box. maybe a suggestion of what d&g could do for my plain jane self?

actually the bistro(t?) is much better. still a box/container, but the slithery booths and the breuer-esque bottle niches start to make some playful things happen to the space.

Was that done in collaboration with Donald Trump?

btw, the caption for that photo is "Donald and Melania unwind at home in Manhattan".

Huh?

Also, let's face it: those "gold" ingot-ey shapes are made out of brass. Why not call the place "Brass"? Otherwise, make it all in actual gold (I once saw a solid gold tea set at Chatsworth House (as solid as gold can be, I know it's never pure) - it glowed with this interior liquid light that brass just doesn't have.).

There is nothing I like about this project, built manifestation or concept. In fact there is essentially nothing about it that doesn't make me slightly sick to my stomach.

cryzko, 80's as in spandau ballet 80's

Looks very Kubrick to me...

I imagine eating in that restaurant would feel like eating on the sales floor of Macy's or Barney's.

the sticky stone looks like crap

that's beautiful, vado!!

one of my favorite songs is on #9 "Be Near Me" by ABC...got it on vinyl...

high heeled boots with sock...panty hose to the waist and thongs pulled up to the max...oh and leopard pattern with leather...

kubrick has much more class than that brass.

i only made it as high as the miami vice theme. then i got really sick to my stomach and i wasnt even in cincinnati.

Hilarious…I propose projecting the count down video on the d&g ceiling.

bad taste, but sensual.

mobocracy...

FOA's not gonna like that bistrot interior...

what's FOA?

Foreign Office Architects. That's their entry for the Pompidou, Metz.

HAHAHAHAHAHA..what a pansy-ish place ! !
I can guess what the waiters would be wearing...

crazy dutch bastards..

simply divine nevermore...:) now this outfit would really pull the whole concept together. Yee Haw!