British designer Tom Dixon has created a pink concrete bar, green leather booths and a cabinet of curiosities for London restaurant Bronte (+ slideshow).

Dixon worked with his architectural interiors practice Design Research Studio on the project, which transformed a Regency building on The Strand, overlooking Trafalgar Square.
Taking inspiration from Admiral Nelson, Duke of Bronte, who stands upon the square's famous Nelson's Column, the restaurant's interior is loosely themed around British collectors and explorers of the Victorian era.

The Regency-era building has a Portland stone facade, traditional colonnade terrace and two-storey arched windows on the outside.

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The inside, a blank slate when the project began, is anchored by its key structures: a pink concrete breakfast bar, a green granite kitchen, a pewter cocktail bar and custom furniture that includes jade-green leather banquet seating.

"We've added some fixed architectural elements like a big pink concrete bar at the front and a big pewter bar at the back, both of which are substantial and will age gracefully and bed in," Dixon told Dezeen. "I like things that feel like they have a sense of permanence, and I think that place demands it really."
"The trick with bar and restaurant design really is durability, and to try and find materiality that benefits from a bit of wear and tear."

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