The Hueso Restaurant in Mexico, located in Guadalajara, was designed by the architectural agency Cadena+Asociados. The plan is to renovate the entire building from the 1940s into the new, avant-garde look we see today. The interior decoration features antique cabinets and skeletons as the protagonists. The color palette is pure white, making the space visually bright and open. In terms of materials used, wood and ceramics are the main ones, integrating all details into the overall space.
Nowadays, restaurants not only provide a place for guests to satisfy their appetites, but in recent years they have also devoted themselves to creating the atmosphere of the overall space, and have transformed into so-called "concept restaurants", so that consumers' taste and dining process are all the same. kind of enjoyment. The direction of the design can be gleaned from the name of the restaurant. Hueso in Spanish means bone in English, and the overall design style follows this axis.
The exterior of the building is covered with handmade ceramic tiles, inspired by needlework and sewing and transformed into various image combinations. Although it is made of pieces of ceramics, the milky white color and the lines on it can't help but remind people of the image of bones. In the indoor part, bones can be seen in both images and decorations, echoing the name of the restaurant. As soon as visitors step into the building, their vision is filled with gray and white tones, as if this is a palace filled with only white and pure.
The entrance hall is decorated with 10,000 cast aluminum bones hanging on the wall. The open kitchen itself is also part of the interior design, and the bar is the only separation from the guests. At the rear, the use of recycled wood creates an interactive bridge between the space at the back of the restaurant and the trees.
I remember that when I was a child, my home had a set of storybooks introducing the lives and works of various painters. Among them, the series of O'Keeffes skeletons left a deep impression on me. It’s hard to say why, but to me as a child, it was very different from ordinary Western paintings. In addition to the ethereal beauty, it also gave me an inexplicable throbbing and turmoil in my heart, and I felt that there seemed to be something more profound behind it. Different from the general images that praise the joy of life, such as flowers and buds, the use of bones always implies a sincere respect for death.
The decoration of this restaurant made my eyes light up when I first saw it. There were piles of bones placed together. There was no sense of horror or gloominess, only clean beauty and poetry. I hope to see it in person one day. towardsIt’s a holy trip!
