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© Andrey Bezuglov, Slava Balbek
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Balbek Bureau

ARCHITECTS
Balbek Bureau

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Slava Balbek, Nadya Chabanny

CLIENT
Dmitriy Zakhodyakin, Alina Kosichkina

PHOTOGRAPHS
Andrey Bezuglov, Slava Balbek

AREA
150 m²

YEAR
2014

LOCATION
Kyiv, Ukraine

CATEGORY
Restaurant

Kyiv restaurant advocating fashion for unseen before Modern French Pastry has been opened for public in November 2014.

The Cake
© Andrey Bezuglov, Slava Balbek
The Cake
© Andrey Bezuglov, Slava Balbek

Architects disputed about the name for the design longer than worked on it, which took record-breaking shortest term: four months from first sketches till open day rehearsal. 

However, they have eventually reconciled with calling it after music genre – “indie” design.

The Cake
© Andrey Bezuglov, Slava Balbek
The Cake
© Andrey Bezuglov, Slava Balbek

The diversity of images and forms presented in an 80m2-main hall has only been achieved due to the fact that most of the design elements have been handcrafted.

On the contrast to the piles of cakes of ideal geometrical form installed behind the transparent walls of the kitchen, every floor concrete tile has its wrinkle as each of 10.000 of them has been handcrafted.Yet altogether they make up a harmonized puzzled surface.

The Cake
© Andrey Bezuglov, Slava Balbek
The Cake
© Andrey Bezuglov, Slava Balbek

Two height seating areas have their own dedicated color and tactile symbol.

Rustic wooden high surface with felt thin bar-chairs standing on metallic racks neighbors with velvet fabric of cozy bottle-green couches and sofas covered with warm shade of grey.

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© Andrey Bezuglov, Slava Balbek
The Cake
© Andrey Bezuglov, Slava Balbek

On a pale and color-muted background of the interior, a glossy pink sculpture looks extremely contrast – just like a glazed cake on a white plate. 

Consistency in contrasts has been demonstrated in mono-color toilets: pink, deep-green, yellow, reminding that, simple solutions might yet look very unusual.

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© Andrey Bezuglov, Slava Balbek
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© Andrey Bezuglov, Slava Balbek

Sun light walks in through massive windows, fills up the whole space and reaches the opposite glass walls adding contrast to the beautifully carved bar wooden panels on its way.


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