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S P O T L I G H T:
R E S TA U R A N T S
Griz Dwight
Spiral chandeliers add an elegant overhead accent throughout the space.
This stone-clad wall contains a residential-style window with views into the kitchen.
Unlike its predecessors at the site, the main dining room at Fiola is all on one level.
Fiola
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riz Dwight describes designing this modern Italian restaurant as an “architectural exorcism.” That’s because the restaurant’s location had previously housed ve different dining concepts over the past decade—and had also sat vacant for two years during that time. “It was a real restaurant graveyard,” says Dwight, founder of GrizForm Design Architects. To gure out how to turn the space into something that would avoid the grim fate of its predecessors, GrizForm began by stripping the building down to its essential elements. That process was a real eyeopener for Dwight. “Most of the previous restaurants just built on top of the ruins of the failed ones,” he says. “Wood ooring was pulled
up to reveal tiles, and the removal of the tiles exposed carpet! When we demolished an awkwardly shaped service station, we discovered an abandoned set of stairs. And when the contractor took down some sound panels, he discovered some wall coverings underneath. It was like looking back in time, and we knew that it all had to go.” With the building’s bones revealed, so was the root cause of its problems: Constructed with dining areas set at three slightly different levels, the previous restaurants attempted to accentuate the distinctness of each level by creating a series of individual, closed-off boxes. “The entry door was at street level, one dining room was 21 inches below, and the other dining room was 42 inches below that,”
Dwight says. “That layout not only shut down views for customers, but caused all sorts of service problems for employees navigating a variety of inef cient pathways between the kitchen, bar, service stations and tables.” To overcome those problems, Dwight lled in the lowest level to make it even with the one above it, forming a spacious, single-level dining room that designers endowed with such upscale features as golden onyx mosaic oors, spiral chandeliers and glossy rosewood walls. The slightly higher entry level, meantime, was converted into a bar that Dwight says serves as a “see-and-be-seen platform whose energy ows down into the rest of the dining room.”
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Boutique Design - March/April 2012
Boutique Design - March/April 2012
From the Editor
Contents
In This Issue/Editorial Advisory Board
Boutique Buzz
Cross Dresser
Q+A: Rob Wagemans
Appetizing Destinations
On the Job: Updating the ADA
Vendor Profile: Mikel Patrik
DreamBook: Feed the Senses
Bath & Spa
Surfacing
The Last Detail: The Exchange Hotel
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - Intro
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - Boutique Design - March/April 2012
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - Cover2
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 1
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - From the Editor
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 3
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - Contents
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 5
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - In This Issue/Editorial Advisory Board
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 7
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - Boutique Buzz
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 9
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 10
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 11
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 12
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 13
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - Cross Dresser
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 15
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 16
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 17
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - Q+A: Rob Wagemans
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 19
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 20
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 21
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 22
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 23
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 24
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 25
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - Appetizing Destinations
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 27
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 28
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 29
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 30
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 31
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 32
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 33
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - On the Job: Updating the ADA
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 35
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 36
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 37
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - Vendor Profile: Mikel Patrik
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 39
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 40
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 41
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - DreamBook: Feed the Senses
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 43
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 44
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 45
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - Bath & Spa
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 47
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 48
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 49
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 50
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Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 53
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 54
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 55
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - Surfacing
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 57
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 58
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 59
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 60
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 61
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 62
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - 63
Boutique Design - March/April 2012 - The Last Detail: The Exchange Hotel
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