MAYHA Restaurant / MARIAGROUP

MAYHA Restaurant / MARIAGROUP

Textual content description offered by the architects. Mayha on Chiltern Road is a two-floor gastronomic journey. The bottom flooring affords an Omakase expertise whereas the decrease floor flooring is conceived round a Japanese bar with a connection to an out of doors courtyard.

The eating expertise on the bottom flooring is centered on the efficiency of the chef: a custom-designed walnut wooden bar encloses the cooking and positions the visitors in an immersive relation with the kitchen. Impressed by the Kumiki constructing method, the bar is made of huge sections of stable walnut assembled with wooden items to type a sturdy object: joints stay seen and steady all through the form of the counter. The elliptical bar is centered with the kitchen: a wall-to-wall alignment of kit devoted to the refined Omakase delicacies, all completed in stainless-steel. The background wall on this lengthy aspect carries skinny cabinets in the identical materials, to retailer and show the assorted ceramic ware that was designed for the restaurant. The wall incorporates a gradation within the end of stainless-steel from matt to polished in order that it turns into totally reflective in its high half. The mirror-like panels will then mirror the area and a custom-designed suspension.

Conceived as a lightweight set up stretching out above the desk, the suspension is made from 700 washi (mulberry paper) shades, every individually crafted into skinny horizontal layers, fitted with mild, and supported by branching copper tubes that distinction with the black ceiling.

Hovering above the counter, the fixture follows the course of the ellipse and doubles in measurement when mirrored within the polished mirror panels in opposition to the kitchen wall. The ground is completed in brick-sized crimson travertine tiles. The variation in colour between the tiles generates a singular sample and offers a powerful heat accent to the area. On the finish of the eating area, past the wooden counter, the kitchen continues and turns into a theatrical set for the cooks. It ends with a window into the courtyard, made from a grid of glass blocks that blurs the imaginative and prescient into this dense city hole. An outdated wrought iron spiral staircase connects the bottom flooring to the decrease flooring. Restored and painted by hand, the steps descend right into a void the place the unique brickworks are revealed. The identical brick partitions proceed to the decrease flooring and distinction with the brand new {custom} cement tiles in black & white. The identical tiles proceed onto the courtyard that turns into accessible from this stage.

A bar occupies the total width of the area: made from burnt wooden, within the custom of “shou sugi ban”, it is usually an assemblage of huge items of stable wooden that stand out in opposition to the nice and cozy walnut shelving and paneling behind. Inside every shelf, mirror brass bins will mirror the sunshine and the bottles. A DJ turntable is built-in into the bar and efficiency audio system are inside the background cabinets, making ready for a fascinating musical atmosphere.