Greek restaurant interior by Masquespacio takes cues from ancient ruins

3D-printed "broken" columns join walls and floors created with an adobe effect at the Egeo restaurant in Valencia by interiors studio Masquespacio that aims to put a modern spin on traditional Greek architecture.

Masquespacio created the interiors for the Egeo Greek restaurant, which is spread across one floor and characterised by a blue and off-white colour palette that is reminiscent of many Greek houses.

A blue and white colour palette defines the space

Egeo features a cavernous interior with microcement-coated seating areas and walls carved from curvy shapes punctuated by statement blue columns.

The Mortex used for these walls and floors intends to give the space an adobe effect.

It features 3D-printed columns

Fractured into two pieces, the restaurant's columns were created using 3D printing and are fitted with tubular lighting that connects each piece together.

"We wanted to recreate the concept of a broken column from the past, but uplift it with a contemporary look," Masquespacio co-founder Christophe Penasse told Dezeen.

Wooden stools provide seating areas

Wooden stools resembling chunky chess pieces are scattered around built-in metal and wooden tables in the various seating areas arranged across the restaurant.

Sconce lights were attached to decorative organic shapes that protrude from the walls while olive trees sit in large, neutrally-hued pots.

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A central ordering bar was designed to recreate the atmosphere of a bustling market where you might order traditional souvlaki from a mobile vendor, according to Masquespacio.

"The restaurant was inspired by Greece's ancient architecture – from its typical white and blue houses to the ruins that are part of its important foundations in our world," explained Penasse.

A central bar intends to give the restaurant a lively feel

The eatery is the first Egeo branch in Valencia, although the chain already has two similar locations in Madrid.

Based in Valencia, Masquespacio was founded in 2010 by Penasse and Ana Milena Hernández Palacio.

Similar projects in Spain by the studio include another cavernous restaurant that nods to adobe architecture and an eatery with curved forms that take cues from the nearby Pyrenees mountains.

The photography is bySebastian Erras.

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Masquespacio puts colourful spin on traditional Italian restaurant concept

Colourful marble accents and looming arches characterise this restaurant by Spanish studio Masquespacio, which takes cues from traditional Italian eateries.

Called Piada, the restaurant sells Italian flatbreads and is the second of its kind to be designed by Masquespacio in the French city of Lyon.

Piada is a restaurant in Lyon

The interiors of the latest Piada blends retro design elements borrowed from traditional Italian restaurants, such as marble and gold finishes, with colours and materials that were chosen to echo the eatery's healthy food menu.

"First, we investigated ancient Italian restaurants and bars to bring the traditional concept into the design," Masquespacio co-founder Christophe Penasse told Dezeen.

Masquespacio took cues from traditional Italian eateries

"Then, we sought elements that could represent a sort of healthy aspect, which at the same time have a splashy and young colour concept that represents the brand's identity," he added.

A garland of lush plants and flowers is suspended above the entrance to the two-storey restaurant, under which floor-to-ceiling arched windows were designed to draw visitors in from the street.

Bold blocks of colour define the space

Inside, guests are met with a collection of booth-like tables that offer a mixture of built-in seating, including banquette benches and rounded wooden stools.

This area is defined by a bold palette of sugary pastel colours, ranging from pale lilac seat cushions to mint-green walls.

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Piada's external arch motif is also continued in its interiors, where curved alcoves have been outlined with columns of bulbous sconce lights that resemble oversized Hollywood-style mirrors.

"We used five elements to represent the traditional Italian bar and restaurant – arches, light bulbs with gold finishes, marble and mirrored menus," explained Penasse.

Piada's design is also influenced by its healthy food menu

In a nod to Piada's healthy food concept, Masquespacio added clusters of plants that spill out of backlit rounded nooks behind the seating areas both upstairs and downstairs.

The studio also incorporated stucco on the walls and tiles with a handmade effect to create a more organic feel to the restaurant interior. All of Piada's furniture was custom-made by Masquespacio to match the restaurant's eclectic themes.

The restaurant is the second of its kind in the French city

Founded in 2010 by Penasse and Ana Milena Hernández Palacios, the Spanish studio has completed a number of other interior projects with designs rooted in bright colour.

These include a playful burger joint in Turin, multi-hued student housing in Bilbao and a colour-clashing phone repair shop in Valencia.

The photography is byGregory Abbate.

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Masquespacio designs colour-blocked burger joint in Turin

Spanish design agency Masquespacio has created the interiors of Italian fast food chain Bun's Turin branch that combines blocks of pink and green with a blue seating area designed to look like a swimming pool.

Bun Turin is a burger joint that takes its bold identity from the first Bun restaurant in Milan, which was also designed by Masquespacio.

"This restaurant's target customer is the urban lifestyle of people born late in the Millennium and the new Generation Z," Masquespacio co-founder Christophe Penasse told Dezeen.

The burger bar is in Turin

Characterised by three distinct colourful areas, the burger joint uses pink, blue and green in order to playfully carve out different spaces in the restaurant.

The sections are designed so that the restaurant's three large windows present each colour as a separate blocked out space from the outside.

Green and pink sections feature in the restaurant

Upon entering Bun Turin, visitors are greeted with an ordering bar and drinks and ice cream fridge coloured in a dusty sage shade of the restaurant's trademark green.

Lit-up digital menu boards with gold accents display the restaurant's food options, while a version of the same neon burger logo found in Bun's Milan branch glows from a nearby pillar.

A neon burger sign glows from a pillar

Pink and blue are used for two different seating areas both complete with built-in furniture.

In the pink area, a central table coloured partly in green straddles both the pink and green sections of the restaurant.

Sugary-pink terrazzo steps that double as a planter lead visitors to seats tucked into arched booths in the pink seating area, which also houses the burger joint's toilets.

The pink seating area has terrazzo steps

Bun Turin's all-blue seating area is built from pale tiles that are designed to look like a swimming pool.

The area features mock pool ladders which aim to give visitors the impression of floating in water while they eat.

"Once we defined Bun's identity we developed the project in 3D," said Penasse.

"At the end of the process, we do a lot of trials to reach the correct combination of colours and materials," continued the designer.

"In this case, we had several options for colour combinations, all focussed on a younger audience."

The blue seating area resembles a swimming pool

Apart from tiles by Complementto, all of the furniture in Bun Turin was designed by Masquespacio.

"It is important for clients that Bun spaces can be recognised wherever they are located," explained Penasse.

"For this reason, the design will evolve and be slightly different in each space, but maintain a clear identity."

Each section is revealed to the street by a large window

Masquespacio is a Valencia-based design agency founded in 2010 by Penasse and Ana Milena Hernández Palacios, known for its use of bright colour.

Other recent projects by the studio include colour-blocked student housing in Bilbao, and a stucco and terracotta restaurant in the Spanish town of Aragon constructed from twisting shapes informed by the nearby Pyrenees mountains.

Photography is by Gregory Abbate.

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Stucco walls and terracotta tiles form a winding pathway through this restaurant interior by Masquespacio

The beauty of Spain's Aragon province informed the earthy colour palette, natural materials and curved forms used in this fine-dining restaurant interior by Valencia studio Masquespacio.

Located in the city of Huesca, Pukkel serves up a menu of healthy food and, according to the owners, aims to offer "a sensorial experience beyond the gastronomy."

Pukkel is a fine dining restaurant

The interior uses a palette of natural materials and colours and undulating, textured forms that are intended to reflect the beauty of the nearby Pyrenees mountains and surrounding countryside.

"After doing a workshop with [Pukkel's owners], Jorge and Mikel, we immediately proposed to work with 100 per cent natural materials and integrate nature into the space," said Christophe Penasse, co-founder of Masquespacio.

Textured surfaces reference the nearby Pyrenees mountains

As well as the natural landscape, the designers wanted the interiors to reflect the restaurant's healthy cuisine.

"We investigated the province of Huesca and started to discover the beauty of the mountains and parks in its surroundings," added Masquespacio creative director Ana Hernández.

"We definitely found the reference we were looking for and that fitted perfectly with the healthy lifestyle concept from Pukkel."

The design studio selected different tones of brown, white and green that are used alongside gold accents, which it said add a "little bit of sophistication" to the space.

The restaurant's layout follows the curved lines and circular forms of the booth seating to create a winding pathway through the space. According to the designers, this is intended to create the feeling of walking through the forest or mountains.

Dark green is combined with lighter tones

This curved path is further highlighted by the colour of the floor tiles, which change from natural terracotta to glazed green or white in the different seating areas.

Uneven surface finishes such as rough stucco, ceramic and terracotta tiles are used to reflect the textures and forms found in nature. The terracotta tiles on the floors, bars and the undulating tiles on the walls were designed specially by Masquespacio for Pukkel.

Terracotta tiles wind through the space

The stucco seating booths feature integrated planters filled with plants and flowers that will change depending on the season.

Other restaurants designed by the studio include the Milan outpost of Italian fast-food chain Bun, where it selected a lilac and avocado-green colour scheme to create a youthful yet "sophisticated" interior, and a tropical sushi restaurant in Valencia, Spain, that mixes Japanese and Brazilian-inspired design elements.

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Masquespacio uses blocks of colour to break up interior of Milan burger joint

Valencian creative studio Masquespacio has used a lilac and avocado-green colour scheme to create a youthful yet "sophisticated" interior for the Milan outpost of Italian fast food chain Bun.

Located on the Viale Bligny boulevard, the restaurant occupies a space that was formerly home to a pizzeria and sits at the base of a residential building.

"With the design, we tried to get away from the usual aesthetics used for hamburger restaurants, with a much more sophisticated identity but at the same time a fresh and young approach," Masquespacio co-founder Christophe Penasse told Dezeen.

Masquespacio mirrored the brick arches of the existing space with colourful interventions

The studio used colour to clearly divide the L-shaped restaurant into a serving and seating area. In the serving area, a lilac hue is used across the floors, walls and ceiling to create an immersive environment.

Meanwhile, customers in the dining area are completely surrounded by green, from the mint green terrazzo bench seating to the circular leather seat cushions.

Seating and tables throughout the restaurant are made from wood

The existing space featured tall, red brickwork arches, which the studio integrated into the restaurant's design.

"When we saw the beautiful bricks and arcs in the space, it was evident for us that we would use these two elements as the starting point of the design," said Masquespacio's creative director Ana Hernández.

To create a uniform aesthetic throughout the space, the studio also added further arches that bring in the green and purple colour scheme.

"Some are totally independent and others highlight the existing arcs of the interior architecture," Masquespacio said.

Bun's serving area is rendered in lilac while the dining area is avocado green

According to the studio, Bun's polished look was chosen as a conscious move away from the kind of vintage, industrial style that has proven popular in burger restaurants in recent years.

Instead, the bright colour scheme helps to maintain the restaurant's appeal for a younger clientele, alongside gold accents throughout the lighting, signage and tabletops.

Like many of Masquespacio's furniture and interiors projects, the restaurant also incorporates references to post-modernism and the Memphis Group – the Italian design collective founded by Ettore Sottsass in 1981.

The dining area features terrazzo bench seating with round leather cushions

In addition to meat burgers, Bun offers a menu of plant-based meat alternatives and all its burgers are wrapped in plastic-free, recyclable packaging.

To communicate this commitment to sustainability, Masquespacio didn't use plastic for the interior design and added plenty of potted plants.

The studio is currently working on several new restaurants with Bun, including its first outpost in Turin.

Brass details are incorporated into the restaurant's lighting and signage

Founded in 2010 by Ana Milena Hernández Palacios and Christophe Penasse, Masquespacio's work is characterised by a bold use of colour and form.

Other recent projects include an open-plan, colour-block interior for a student house in Spain and an upholstered chair with an eye-shaped backrest and tassels for eyelashes.

Photography is by Gregory Abbate.

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