This Bangalore restaurant is an effort in effective nostalgia management. The earlier eatery at this location was called ‘Clay Pot’. So, designers Smruti Kamat and Lester Rozario decided to pay homage to the name by creating two sweeping slivers in the roof and fitting within them superbly distinctive clay pots. The pots are silhouetted against the white light that streams down, making it rather hard for guests to resist the temptation to keep looking up.
Kamat & Rozario Architecture re-structured the space by mixing some of the old building materials with the new. But again, it is the roof that is the design fulcrum here. Its arms reach out and connect the restaurant and the lounge sections, thereby uniting the closed with the open. Light comes in from the north, so there is enough glass available to take full advantage of it. All along, Esko basks in the perfect parity of “inside-outside”.
