Indian office MAIA Design Studio has designed a Pan-Asian restaurant in Bangalore, which brings local crafts together with a Tokyo-inspired palette of colours and patterns.
Lucky Chan is a casual restaurant serving sushi and dim-sum, which takes over the grand floor of a two-storey house.
Lucky Chan takes over the ground floor of a two-storey house
Because it's a residential building, the space is divided up into a series of rooms. MAIA Design Studio founder Shruti Jaipuria saw this as an opportunity to explore a variety of different concepts.
Her interior design scheme gives each room its own character, but they all share an eclectic mix of colour, pattern and material.
Mosaic tiles create stripy walls in the open-air section
Large surfaces of grey Sadharalli granite feature alongside ceramic tiles that combine candy shades of red, yellow, pink and green. "We were inspired by the hip Harajaku style of Tokyo while developing the colour palette," said Jaipuria, "but the material palette is more local".
"As an office, we aspire to use local material and craft in contemporary and unexpected contexts," she told Dezeen.
The main dining room combines granite walls with a ceiling installation
Lucky Chan can be divided up into five different zones: the main dining room, the open-air section, the passageway, the sushi bar and the private dining room.
The main dining room is perhaps the most simple of the spaces, although it features a very unique deta...