A Glistening Korean Chicken Spot in Adelaide, Australia
Genesin Studio defines a restaurant interior with a grid of tiles that replace hard angles with rounded corners
“We are calling it low-tech, K-Pop minimalism,” interior designer Ryan Genesin says of the super-slick interior of Ban Ban, a new Korean fried chicken joint in downtown Adelaide, Australia. From the edge of the sidewalk outside, a field of baby blue tile glides up the facade and under the folding windows, then sprawls across the interior’s dividing walls, bartops, banquette seats and even the tables – not only covering the flat planes, but wrapping every curve and corner in smooth ceramic. Only the exterior walls and the existing concrete floors are left uncovered by gleaming blue tile.
The use of DTile, a unique three-dimensional tiling system from the Netherlands, was an integral part of the design, says Genesin....
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