Athens-based design studio Fluo has redesigned the top floor of a 1970s hotel building to create a light-filled bar and breakfast room with warm tones and blush pink colours.

The 150 square-metre rooftop renovation features gold spheres, velvet cushions and marble surfaces that give an Art Deco feel to the wedge-shaped space.

The combined bar and breakfast area is on the upper floor of the Evripidis hotel in Athen's buzzy Psiri district, with views onto the Acropolis beyond.
A covered terrace area from which guests can enjoy the surrounding view has a tiled terrazzo floor. A glass roof as well as floor-to-ceiling glass windows in this sun room give views across the city.

Circular marble-topped tables are surrounded with velvet-covered dining chairs in soft pastel shades of blue, pink, green and grey. These are accompanied by long banquettes with upholstered velvet seats that line the wall, and smaller tables for pairs of diners, as well as a row of bar stools. "The vibrant colours in the seating areas were embraced to fade out the neutrality of the grey buildings around the hotel," explained Fluo's interior designer Christina Serrou to Dezeen.

Elsewhere in the bar and seating areas, floors are covered in a geometric pattern of terrazzo and glossy marble slabs that jut into areas of herringbone wood parquet.
A number of the walls are divided diagonally into two triangular forms. These triangular wall panels are decorated with delicate gold filagree laid o...