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news Paris of the East Montreal Makeover Designer Jean-Pierre Viau is no stranger to Japanese restaurant Mikado in Montreal. He had designed the Laurier Street location multiple times, and had designed another outpost on Monkland Street a few years ago. So when owner Kimio Nguyen approached him to design a new location one block away from the original Laurier Street location (his contract on that property was up), Viau happily jumped on the opportunity. “Since we have worked together for so many years, we had a ‘carte blanche’ for this project,” explains the locally based designer. “Since he owns this location now, he could invest a little more than usual.” Viau used walnut wood for all surfaces (the sushi bar, bar, doors of the tatami room, and window frames), a neutral color palette, and indirect lighting to convey a “cool and relaxed place,” he says, with a Japanese essence. Mirrors make the space feel larger, while on the walls and columns, Viau played with a bit of modernism, creating geometric wooden graphs of rectangles inspired by artist Piet Mondrian; some are backlit yellow, others Moving into an Art Deco building called 1933, alongside other creative tenants like a recording studio, marketing agency, and a photographer, the owners of Shanghai-based Jade Restaurant Group wanted to capture the flavor and spirit of the city’s 1930s heyday with its latest upscale alternative, Jardin de Jade. Architect Joseph Wong was brought in to both honor the building’s history, and overcome its less than appealing previous life as a slaughterhouse (or abattoir). “A lot of Shanghai is about the consumer culture, but most people in Shanghai are very intellectual when it comes to their culture, both past and future,” explains Wong, who has offices in both San Diego and Shanghai. “Our design philosophy was to capitalize on this cultural intellectualism and to play on the separation of the old and the new. The vast, old, beautifully proportioned loft spaces, floor-to-ceiling windows, Art Deco tracery, and stately fluted columns stand alone as a framework for the new.” Life-size horse sculptures break up seating, reflective vertical surfaces play off the glossy floors, wooden ceiling panels allow many seemingly disparate details and historical allusions to play together, and popular artwork from the 1930s is woven into the ceiling and wall panels to evoke memories of when Shanghai was the “Paris of the East.” But the restaurant’s showpiece: dramatic backlit onyx slabs that glow like fire at the entrance, which actually do double duty as a design and symbolic element. “Their glow, reflected in the glossy dark floors, creates a kind of topological bridge, blurring the boundaries between vertical and horizontal traditionally seen in a more Euclidian approach to design,” explains Wong. “We sought to overcome [the space’s] negative historical energy by using the symbolic power of fire at the entry to burn off the old spirit of the abattoir and cleanse the space for its new purpose and use.” www.jwdainc.com Photo by Marc Cramer are done in beige. “Since this was his third restaurant, [Nguyen] knew exactly what he wanted and what he did not want. It took time to arrive at the final layout, the puzzle that seems so evident today, but was not that clear at the beginning.” www.jpvdesign.com; www.mikadomontreal.com www.hdmag.com August 2009 41
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Hospitality Design - August 2009

Hospitality Design - August 2009
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Online Contents
From the Editor
Scene and Be Seen
News
Calendar
Designer Profile
To Market
To Market
On Site
Charro Restaurante
Gingko Bacchus
Rouge Tomate
Sel de la Terre
UCH Sequel
Union Trust
Luau
Back Space
Bar Artisanal
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Hospitality Design - August 2009 - UCH Sequel
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