Restaurant in New York
This Peruvian restaurant in Manhattan occupies two lower levels of a new, slick apartment tower. It compensates for lacking street presence with eye-catching materiality inside. For example, the reception opposite the entrance is clad in shelves originally used in mushroom cultivation. A marble desk contrasts with the rustic material; the stone appears again in the lounge, this time in combination with polished brass. A 12-metre-long monolithic bar leading to the back of the eatery rests on hand-hewn exposed concrete. The surface of the concrete columns in the double-height dining space is also hand-wrought. Walls and ceilings are covered in a mesh of Ocotillo twigs collected in the desert of northern Mexico.
