Toronto-based Studio Paolo Ferrari has created cinematic interiors for a restaurant in the city's Downtown area, combining influences from filmmakers that range from Stanley Kubrick to Nancy Meyers.
Unlike a typical restaurant layout, Daphne unfolds as a series of rooms with distinct identities, each borrowing references from different cinema styles.
Daphne is laid out across several spaces, including a Great Room designed to feel like Nancy Meyers movie
Studio Paolo Ferrari intended each space to offer a different experience for guests, and custom-designed all of the furniture and lighting for the restaurant to make it feel even more unique.
"Daphne is an elevated and exceedingly creative take on the American bistro, fusing the nostalgia of New England prep with wonder and eccentricity," said Studio Paolo Ferrari. "At once intimate and grand, eccentric and sculptural, convivial and experimental, the deeply imaginative space is reminiscent of a great residence that's evolved over time." Studio Paolo Ferrari designed custom furniture and lighting throughout the restaurant
Guests arrive into an intimate space that features a transparent full-height wine cabinet, which offers glimpses of the dining area beyond.
They then move through to the Great Room, a cavernous room framed by a dramatic vaulted ceiling and decorated in a warm neutral palette.
The Drawing Room is fully enveloped in a burnt orange hue
Through the centre is a line of dining tables, each pai...