The Parisian hotel Nolinski called on the English designer John Whelan to completely rethink the decoration of its restaurant.
The restaurant of the young Parisian hotel Nolinski, on the Avenue de l’Opéra, is getting a makeover. For its renovation, the Evok group called on the English designer John Whelan, who subtly mixed the “seventies” spirit with Art Deco. “It is an intimate and timeless place, separated from the hustle and bustle of the city by vegetation and plantings that allow guests to forget the outside world,” explains Emmanuel Sauvage, Evok’s general manager.
John Whelan wanted a bright and elegant room, so he used rounded moldings and tone-on-tone palettes. The central element, adorned with mirror slats, ends its flight like an Art Deco shard decorated with gold leaves. Honey-colored pitchpin wood, raw and oiled Versailles parquet, yellow Sienna marble, Japanese fresco, corduroy-upholstered banquettes, cane chairs, brass and patina paint all come together to create a warm atmosphere in this 70-seat room.
“I used the mirrors as wall coverings because they reflect both the natural light in the room and the creamy gold paintings,” the designer details. When night falls, the softness continues thanks to the subdued tones of the Art Deco sconces and Fortuny suspensions.
Just a stone’s throw from the rue Saint-Honoré, the Place Vendôme, the Opera and the Louvre, this discreet luxury establishment with its Haussmannian elegance, whose interior design was entrusted to Jean-Louis Deniot, has called upon the chef Philip Chronopoulos, already starred at the Restaurant du Palais Royalanother property of the Evok Group.
