PNY - 2023

In Lille, the four-level restaurant immediately made Rudy think of an imaginary cruise ship. The walls were made of the local brique from the North of France. Him and his team decided to keep them and simply place the setting within the hundred years-old brique shell, as in a film studio.

On the ground floor, the bar is the welcoming element. Designed like a building from the Miami Art District, it is nougat and blue lagoon colored. The wood panels are brush-lacquered and incrusted with aluminium details. Everything is intentionally very symmetrical. A big PNY sign, back-lit, curves the shape of a half-arc.

The superior floor if a dining-room maze. The chair, designed for the project by Rudy, hints at Schindler, student of the great Frank Lloyd, whom Rudy worships. Larger than the average chair, it is strongly American and reassuring. The table is voluntarily overhung, the top part with its aluminium details is held by a steel hand. The stationary tables are designed like small rooftops.

The wall lamp is very symbolic. The opaline ball, representing a perfect world, of the cosmic and solar self, is held by a rational square structure, which a slot prevents from closing entirely. The unconscious always escape in part to the conscious self.

On the top deck, Rudy placed forty-two disco balls hanging on the ceiling. On Giorgio Moroder’s soundtrack, Brian de Palma’s Scarface, it is like a starry night in broad daylight.

Corazon

PNY