PNY - 2024
Nestled in a fascinating hundred-year-old listed building (Halle du Boulingrin, 1929), with its bay windows facing due south, the latest PNY is an ode to modernist California.
Dark and light wood panelling, joined with cream-coloured silicone, alternates to clad the 7m-high walls, recalling the beautiful houses of Schindler, Eames and some of the precious interiors of the 1920s.
On the ceiling, gigantic strips of golden yellow fabric mark out the horizon like a series of perfect waves or the rays of a sun that would shine forever.
Our banquette dividers rewrite the banquette dividers of the fine Parisian brasseries of the belle époque. They become simply sexy, lacquered in lagoon blue and topped with a polished aluminium lamp. The hundreds of tiny holes become so many little stars as night falls in the restaurant and the light fades.
Our favourite teacher, Frank Lloyd Wright, invented the corner window in the last century, making the corners of some Californian houses disappear. Our angled mirrors are a nod to this marvellous invention.
In the bar's sky, three enormous ball lamps slowly spin like orange stars. The bar lamps, with their more modernist language, were designed for the project.
The Wavy chair, designed for the project, is inspired by the salty blond curls of the surfers at Mavericks near Half Moon Bay, south of San Francisco. It is pastel yellow and its tubular structure, typical of the Bauhaus period, undulates and bounces under pressure.
© Photos : Ludovic Balay