Japanese restaurant L’Abysse Monte Carlo has opened its doors in Monaco’s Hôtel Hermitage.
Paris-based Galerie SCENE OUVERTE curated the interiors in collaboration with architecture and design studio RoWin’Atelier. The result: A timeless space of tactile exploration and movement.
The restaurant’s Japanese influence
The scene is set by a large indigo carpet inspired by the archipelagos of the Seto Inland Sea in Japan, where a traditional blue dye is produced for Japanese prints known as Aizuri-e.
Japanese influences are also found in the 10 chairs surrounding the bar table, with seat backs that nod to traditional Japanese torii gates, while the wooden frame nods to the Kigumi technique—the craft of jointing wood without nails or metal fittings.
Art inside L’Abysse Monte Carlo
Blurring the lines between art and design, gallery founder Laurence Bonnel adorned the restaurant with works by artists Célia Bertrand, William Coggin, Silver Sentimenti, and Caroline Désile.
Bertrand’s two light fixtures are an interplay of curves and rhythms inspired by plant life, while Coggin’s white ceramic installations crawl across the walls in fluid forms, evoking the movement of the ocean, sand dunes, and coral reefs.
Meanwhile, Désile’s four sculptures are an encounter between the structural forms from the ancestral Japanese art of folding, and the artist’s reflections on the ephemerality of existence.
Finally, two ceramic pieces by Sentimenti echo the spatial forms of the room, featuring embroidered leather in tones that harmonize with the design concept.
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