Design practice Mizzi Studio has completed the interiors of Family Kitchen, a kids' restaurant in Kew Gardens that combines the aesthetics of the film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with a "botanical science laboratory."
Located in the families area of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, southwest London, the restaurant features whimsical designs such as an apple-shaped seat, giant timber-weaved fungi sculptures and a magenta-coloured Ethiopian Enset tree.
Mizzi Studio has designed the interiors of a family restaurant in Kew Gardens
The fantastical restaurant has a colour palette of bright pinks, mushroom brown and leafy greens, deliberately chosen to evoke the plants and foods found in nature. Its interior is "a magical world," said Jonathan Mizzi, director of Mizzi Studio. "We designed a magical world of gardens forests and woodlands, where human beings appear to have been shrunk to the size of small creatures living with nature, in what can be described as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory meets botanical science laboratory," he said.
The studio drew on elements found in nature for the design. Image courtesy of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Architecture firm HOK was responsible for the building that holds the Family Kitchen and paid special attention to incorporating it seamlessly into its surroundings in Kew Gardens, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
To do so, the firm used exposed timber both inside and out. According to Stuart Ward, architect a...