PNY - 2022

Nestled in a former printing factory, of which we neatly restored the hundred of moldings and a ceiling from the past century, Lyon’s first PNY is like a diner straight out of a dreamlike West Hollywood.

When we first discovered this magical place, it all came to us in a sheer clear vision

The walls had to be covered in a dark night-like color. Nestled in the aluminium sparkling booths such a celestial Corvette, we had to dive into the magical neon lights and into our wildest dreams. Far in the distance, through a smooth moisture of air, Connie Stevens’ Sixteen Reasons would resonate, and we would fall into the soft curves of an infinite Mulholland Drive.

The mighty-shining dark blue lacquer reflects thousands of rays of light in the room. The rigorous booths, angular and sharp, made of aluminium, cut through the 1900 moldings and reverberate the surrounding glow. The smoked-glass tables let shining through the neon lights bringing us to the other side, Hollywood, the Cinema, the city of angels. The « Phantom of Paradise » chairs, designed for the project, made out of smoked-plexiglass, reflect the lights or let them through.

On the wall, sculptural, three Ultra-Fragola mirrors catch the room’s glows of light and frame them of curves, mysteriously orangey pink, flooding the room into infinite golden hour.

To go up the stairs is to enter within the mirror. The pink boudoir welcoming us, serpents to a resting « discobolus ». Behind its thick smoked-glass shield, the discophore was slowly dying in the absence of our gazes. With his perfectly shaped body, molded into fragile and ephemeral plaster, he has been there waiting for us, since the dawn of time

Everything is transparence, illusion, reflexion, double-world.

A big allusion to Hollywood, a driving force of the worldwide burger craze.