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The Pink Zebra Restaurant

THE PINK ZEBRA RESTAURANT

Renesa Architecture Design Interiors Studio

The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang

CLIENTS
Sagar Bhatia, Jaivardhan Bhatia.

CATEGORY
Restaurants & Bars

STUDIO IN CHARGE
Dharminder Kumar

YEAR
2018

MANUFACTURERS
Blum, Flos, Hettich, Ikea, Kohler, Saint-gobain, Dormakaba, Ais

AREA
4000 m²

PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT
Sanjay Arora

INTERIOR DESIGNER
Vandana Arora

CONCEPTUAL TEAM
Manav Dang

LIGHTING
White Lighting Solutions, Siddharth Arora, Udit Duggal.

LOCATION
Kanpur, India

STRUCTURAL CONSULTANT
Devender Damle.

ARCHITECTURAL INTERN
Pranat Singh, Mayank Goyal

SITE GRAPHICS TEAM HEAD
Pankaj Kumar

STUDIO HEAD ARCHITECT / CONCEPT DESIGN HEAD
Sanchit Arora

PHOTOGRAPHS
Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang

CONCEPT DESIGN HEAD / BRANDING
Sanchit Arora

The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang

Text description provided by architect.

Merging Funk into Details - A Concoction of Design Theories.

The Pink Zebra aka Feast India Co. (FIC) is a take on the bygone British Culture in the city of Cawnpore.

The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang
The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang

With the extravagance of the European Grandeur, not many know how important the city of Cawnpore(now Kanpur) was to the British Corporation of India.

The design story initiates the change over time by re-writing an architectural essay through this space amalgamation of old with the quirkiness of Art Nouveau glitz (which can be seen throughout the city)

The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang
The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang
The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang

The purpose of making "The Pink Zebra" was to speak of a complex and contradictory architecture based on the richness and ambiguity of old and modern experience including that very experience which is inherent in art.

The core idea was to create a hybrid rather than pure, compromising rather than clean and leave the visitor hanging in the middle of an artistic sea.

Ideating initiated from the clients love for Wes Anderson's set ideology and his love for fearful quirkiness along with constructed frames throughout this space.

The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang
The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang
The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang

The love for extreme symmetry and restricted color palettes can often give the expression of a surreal , self contained world but adding that certain bizarre element to break that monotony of Wes's spatial ideology came through the black and white zebra lines dipping themselves in the pink monotone set in the British Raj's colonial order.

The simple idea was to create a distinct aesthetic architectural style that connects to the city people and poses its stand by the use of a striking color palette .

The Pink Zebra with its unique facade design creates an everlasting effect on the passersby and invites them into a magical , expertly crafted world whose spaces are framed to treat the eyes.

The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang
The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang
The Pink Zebra Restaurant
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The Pink Zebra Restaurant
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The Pink Zebra Restaurant
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The Pink Zebra Restaurant
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The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang
The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang
The Pink Zebra Restaurant
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The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang
The Pink Zebra Restaurant
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The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang
The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang
The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang
The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang
The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang
The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang
The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang
The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang
The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang
The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang
The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang
The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang


The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang
The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang
The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang
The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang
The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang
The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang
The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang
The Pink Zebra Restaurant
© Saurabh Suryan - Lokesh Dang


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1st Floor Plan
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Terrace Floor Concept


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