Glossy green paint coats the bottom half of this bright white restaurant in Athens, which design studio AK-A has finished with deep red accents.

"Through this chromatic uniformity, the complexity of the elements is simplified. The strict dichotomy of the space gives the diners and the dishes served a prominent role," said the studio. "Intense contrasts are created by simultaneously concealing and revealing the building's textures and materiality ? we juxtapose the smooth with the rugged, the dark with the light, the glossy with the matte, the present with the past."
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