On the Menu
Karen D. Singh and Craig Kellogg -- Interior Design, 1/1/2009 12:00:00 AM
Tapped to fast-track a restaurant for the Casa Decor expo in Barcelona, Spain, the Nancy Robbins Design Studio's namesake designer-director served up the raw space in a commercial warehouse as a showcase for her own furniture as well as other favorite products. Her prototype high-backed Berlin sofa for the MEC Collection anchored the lounge. At the center of the room, her Tokyo sectional for Andreu World served as a grand U-shape banquette upholstered in white vinyl and hardy synthetic suede, removable backrests and all.
On the opposite side of the dining tables sat cream-lacquered lightweight armchairs by Lievore Altherr Molina, also for Andreu World. She installed Bodo Sperlein's sconces for Lladró on a wall built of recycled shipping pallets. Overhead lighting was an original installation. Robbins designer Miquel Ballester redeployed plastic "bubble" bags left over from packaging for a project for jewelry company New Resource Design Collective—suspending them from wire fencing stretched across the ceiling and insert ing compact fluorescents. For decoration, she borrowed the driftwood mobiles that photographer Carles Roig makes asa sideline. He collects the wood on the beaches of Majorca, 60 miles east across the Mediterranean. 34-93-268-11-39; nancyrobbins.com. circle 438
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