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    Mexico City restaurant by RA! arranged around upside-down pyramid bar

    November 27, 2023 - By 

    A bar counter shaped like an inverted ziggurat sits at the centre of this restaurant in Mexico City, designed by local architecture studio RA! Tana is a tapas spot located in the city’s wealthy Polanco neighbourhood, within a compact and intimate space facing Parque Lincoln. The Tana restaurant is organized around a central concrete bar RA! gutted the 65-square-metre unit to make way for its cave-like concept, achieved by applying textured plaster and concrete across the four-metre-high walls. “The intervention began by demolishing the superimposed finishes of the old premises, in order to discover the structure and the materials that…

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    Kelly Wearstler designs hotel bar to feel “like it has been there for ages”

    August 18, 2023 - By 

    Interior designer Kelly Wearstler paired clay plaster walls with Moroccan cement tiles at this eclectic cocktail bar in the Downtown LA Proper hotel. Named after Mexico’s national flower, the Dahlia bar features a blushing interior that was designed to echo the rest of the hotel – also created by Wearstler. The designer looked to the same Spanish, Mexican and Moroccan influences that define the wider Downtown LA Proper, such as terracotta Roman clay plaster walls and ceilings when conceptualising the bar. Dahlia is a cocktail lounge within the Downtown LA Proper hotel “The warm, earthy tones of the lounge are…