After designing two restaurants for Charlie Palmer in the Pacific Design Center (PDC), and redesigning them for Wolfgang Puck when he took over as operator, it made sense that PDC owner Charles Cohen called on Martin Vahtra once again for the complex’s newest addition: the Silver Screen Lounge. Located directly off of the PDC’s screening room, “Silver Screen was designed directly for Cohen, who is now getting more and more involved in the film industry,” explains Vahtra, founder of New York-based firm Projects.

The result is a sleek, colorful, dynamic space outfitted with interesting forms and shapes. Low curving sofas are wrapped in yellow fabric. One wall is done in “cool” red wall panels with a raised bubble effect that also has acoustical properties. “It looks like a good-looking sound studio,” Vahtra says. The blue carpet dons a strong sound-wave inspired pattern. And the backlit sculptural bar is made of 3form.

“The bar is influenced by ‘fractured’ architecture that is prevalent today, generated and made possible through computers and computer modeling programs,” he explains. “The client requested a dynamic and colorful space that can compete with the vividness and often action-packed films of today that are screened in the adjacent cinema.”