French designer Rudy Guénaire has created the interiors of Japanese restaurant Matsuri in Paris, combining wooden furniture covered in lacquer with pastel-coloured domes informed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Located in Paris' 16th arrondissement, the 200-square-metre restaurant was given a full redesign by Guénaire.
As the menu focuses on "Japanese sushi from a Californian angle", Guénaire drew on Japonisme ? the Western fascination with Japanese design ? for its interior.
Matsuri is located in Paris' 16th arrondissement
"I drew on everything that has marked me from these two countries that I adore," Guénaire, who runs Nightflight Studio, told Dezeen.
"From Japan, I took this idea that fascinates me, which is that the Japanese frame everything," he added. "As if everything had to be an island, firmly delimited by something that protects it and makes it unique."
Rudy Guénaire referenced American modernist design for the interior
The American influence comes across in the shapes used to decorate the interior, which features colourful ceiling domes that are lit from the inside.
"From California, I took these incredible obliques that make me melt," Guénaire said. "The kind you find in Frank Lloyd Wright or John Lautner's work."
"A slant that recalls the Native American tent, the primordial shelter," he added.
"American modernists loved Japan and sometimes, they'd never even been there. It's this Japonism...