Restaurateurs Sally Chironis and Tito Rahman have unveiled their newest venue, La Silhouette, a French-American restaurant helmed by executive chef David Malbequi in New York City. Architect Richard Bloch has enriched the space with thoughtful details like peek-a-boo views to the rear gardens, frosted glass torches positioned on the main dining room’s stepped walls, and framed fragmented sketches of Paris drawn by Bloch himself.
The 68-seat restaurant is conceived as a series of varying sized rooms. A mahogany-topped bar trimmed in stainless steel is offset by a ceramic blue tiled back wall and hot red cushioned stools. Two smaller dining rooms boast ebonized trimmed wooden tables and azure and chameleon colored cushions atop black wooden chairs. Some of the rooms are carpeted in a blue and brown patterned hue; others are blanketed with dark gray tile. Gray lacquered panel walls grow darker the farther into the restaurant you go. A second bar, which mirrors the first, leads diners to the two largest rooms of which the front wall is painted with thick white and red horizontal stripes. The sunken larger dining room on the main floor and the mezzanine’s dining room, which can be used as a semiprivate dining room, are both anchored by outdoor terraces that will be open this summer.
