Designed by Studio Osmosis, this 3500 sft restaurant in Kalyani Nagar, Pune is a beautiful fusion of an industrial palette and a fine dine setting.
SRK Ventures and Cooking Culture approached the team at Studio Osmosis with a brief to design something unique. They needed the space to be comfortable enough for a guest to be able to spend several hours savouring their myriad courses. The clients desired an ambience that felt cosy but strayed away from the usual marble and wood that most fine dining restaurants sport. Principal architects Shilpa and Sameer Balvally, upon grasping the requirements of the brief, went straight to the drawing board.
The restaurant is divided into a larger main dining area for the general public and a private dining room for reserved guests. Situated perpendicular to the main dining area, the private dining room enjoys an exclusive view of the kitchen. A sliding door finished in a fabric-sandwiched glass panel offers the option of dividing the room into two. A green wall built from PVC pipes and dotted with plants gives the space an outdoor feel. Fern green textured leather upholstery distinguishes the chairs from the remaining furniture.
In the main dining area, two kinds of transparent screens enable privacy between the tables, and simultaneously ensure that the spaces don’t feel boxed in. Pre-cast concrete latticed screens doubling up as wine stackers cordon off the peripheral seating. In the central core, movable brass chain-link curtains suspended from the ceiling offer a more flexible kind of privacy. The flooring is finished in IPS with brass, and the walls in Nepali brown marble and subtly-patterned fabric-finished wallpaper. The service ducts in the ceiling are left exposed, but camouflaged with a grid from which geometric light fittings and potted plants are suspended. At certain angles, they appear to be floating in mid-air. Together with the walnut panelling, teak wood and polished leather finishes of the tables and chairs, the concrete and metal screens charmingly complement the overall material palette of the restaurant. A muted lighting scheme accentuates the fine dining experience. The logo near the entrance, built from backlit brass screws, adds the final touch to Classe’s inviting theme.
Founded 7 years ago, Studio Osmosis has a knack for transforming the quality of lifestyle through the spaces they design. Be it interiors or architecture, a big entrepreneur’s home or a hip restaurant, their youthful enthusiasm and global experience ensures that they stand out from the rest. Built on the ideology of ‘osmosis’, they believe in absorbing the individual needs of the client, working cohesively on the design and arriving collaboratively at a creative, tangible and sustainable solution.
