North End Design Creates the Town Restaurant
Amy Duong — May 29, 2025 — Art & Design
References: northend.design
Interior design firm North End Design has completed the bright Town restaurant space in Covent Garden in London. The space is defined by its volcanic ceramic pillars with a glossy coating, chrome accents, and retro futuristic forms. Designer Samuel Hosker, the founder of the design studio, made it prominent that the kitchen was to be placed in the center and surrounded by glossy red ceramic pillars.
Hosker explains why the kitchen is in the middle: it is the "stage of the theatre. The activity of the smoke from the grill, the movement from the pass – watching Stevie orchestrate from this central point is fascinating. You really see the heart of the operation. Additionally the space, pragmatically, lead the team in this direction. We had an open room, within a clean structural grid. From the beginning of the plan development last May, the structural columns always wanted to frame the focal point of the room."
Image Credit: North End Design
Hosker explains why the kitchen is in the middle: it is the "stage of the theatre. The activity of the smoke from the grill, the movement from the pass – watching Stevie orchestrate from this central point is fascinating. You really see the heart of the operation. Additionally the space, pragmatically, lead the team in this direction. We had an open room, within a clean structural grid. From the beginning of the plan development last May, the structural columns always wanted to frame the focal point of the room."
Image Credit: North End Design
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