“Trendy throwaway” design has been the hallmark of the so-called millennial look described in Molly Fischer’s essay “The Tyranny of Terrazzo,” published ominously in early March 2020. “Therefore design that has a greater sense of story and permanence has become highly appealing during this turbulent socioeconomic era.” “A younger audience has been drawn to legacy design because millennials in particular have become fatigued by the trendy throwaway quality of so much that’s forced upon consumers today,” Lenahan told Eater. ![]() Todd-Avery Lenahan, president and chief creative officer of Wynn Design & Development, suggests this craving for a sense of history has been building for years. In addition to the ’50s-influenced Strawberry Moon, Fulk designed the newly opened ZZ’s Sushi Bar with hints of midcentury styling, including bentwood banquettes, palm-frond lights, and clamshell-shaped dining chairs. In July, Los Angeles-based H.Wood Group is opening an outpost of their roaring ’20s-themed supper club Delilah inside the Wynn Las Vegas it’s influenced by the earliest supper clubs of Las Vegas from the 1950s. Take a look at the biggest openings, and you’ll see glimmers of decades past, and in particular the 1920s and ’50s, two periods when America partied after wars (and in the ’20s, after a pandemic, too). With just a handful of new spots, it’s hard to predict where things are headed, but nostalgia-laced vacation decor is one of the first clear trends we can name looking at post-vax restaurant interior design. As new bars and restaurants have begun to open again, we can finally start to see how all that time at home is impacting restaurants’ interiors - especially in Miami, which has had full-capacity dining since September 2020. From touchless technologies to four-season outdoor dining, the forecasts all point to how the layout and operations will change. The New York version of vacay vibes is a little bit darker and grittier, but the impulse to make restaurants feel like sunny retreats is the same: We’re all desperate for a break from the daily grind - even if it’s just for a few hours over dinner.Ī lot has been written about how COVID-19 will change the design of restaurants. Kokomo, a restaurant that opened last summer in Williamsburg, also transports diners with a bamboo bar, a plant-filled patio, and Bob Marley’s iconic lyric “Everything is gonna be alright” painted as a backdrop for their lively outdoor dining area. In Brooklyn, Fandi Mata’s soaring warehouse space is adorned with Moroccan tiles and filled with potted palms for a Mediterranean-meets-industrial vibe. The look is not relegated to warm-weather locales. Further south in Miami, at Pharrell Williams and David Grutman’s new restaurant Strawberry Moon in the Goodtime Hotel, designer Ken Fulk channeled midcentury resort destinations like Havana and Acapulco, with a pink scalloped bar dotted with green tile, pink-and-white-striped curtains, and wicker everywhere. Instead of the dark, moody, and dramatic interiors of Gin & Luck’s Death & Co bars in New York, Denver, and Los Angeles, Little Palm is decked out in pink palm-frond wallpaper and turquoise tile. In Charleston, South Carolina, the hospitality group Gin & Luck has opened Little Palm in the Ryder Hotel. You hadn’t noticed that before.New restaurants are taking their decor on vacation. it was all a dream, says a neon sign in schoolgirl cursive. Maybe the pillows were succulent-print maybe the ceramics had boobs. Swap out the monstera leaf for waxy red anthurium, work hard & be nice to people for good vibes only. ![]() And there, in the round mirror above the couch: It’s you. ![]() It’s so clean! Everything’s fun, but not too much fun. You sense-in a way you could neither articulate nor explain-the presence of a mailorder foam mattress somewhere close at hand.Īll that pink. In the far corner, within the shrine of an arched alcove, atop a marble plinth: one lonely, giant cartoon jungle leaf, tilting from a pink ceramic tube. Above a bookshelf (spines organized by color), a poster advises you to work hard & be nice to people. It holds a succulent in a lumpy ceramic pot, a scented candle with a mattepink label. Upon the terrazzo nougat of the coffee table, a glass tray trimmed in brass. Circles of faded terra-cotta and pale yellow mint-green and mustard confetti white, with black half-circles and two little dots-aha. Before you is a couch, neatly tufted and boxy, padded with an assortment of pillows in muted geometric designs. You’ve entered a white room.Ī basketlike lamp hangs overhead other lamps, globes of brass and glass, glow nearby. WILL THE MILLENNIAL AESTHETIC EVER END? New York magazine | March 2–15, 2020 The TYRANNY of TERRAZZO - Molly Fischer
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