Gastronomy, Dubai
Gastronomy is a buffet-style restaurant at Atlantis The Royal, that draws inspiration from the vibrant and diverse food markets around the world.
Here, diners can indulge in an array of live cooking stations featuring fresh, farm-to-table produce.
Client: Kerzner International
Industry: F&B
Year: 2022
Location: Atlantis The Royal, Dubai
Services: Full-service Art Consultancy and Art Production
Featured artists: Gary Yong, Lama Khatib Daniel, Mahnaz Karimi, Mira Mortada
Awards: Winner for Commercial Interior Design Hospitality Awards in category ‘Best Use of Art in an F&B Project’ 2023.
Designed with an 'all-day dining' audience in mind, we set out to create a dynamic and welcoming atmosphere that embodied the bustling energy of a marketplace. To achieve this, we employed big, bold, colourful graphic art that created a sense of fun and playfulness. This artwork also served as a clever wayfinding tool, guiding diners to the various food stations scattered throughout the restaurant.
For artwork, we brought the space alive with an explosion of creativity, all of which echoed the traditional marketplace theme. Throughout the space are chalkboards with illustrations by artist Lama Khatib Daniel, of food and drink fashioned in a style reminiscent of artistic greengrocer or butcher shop signs.
Statement installations include a giant pizza paddle wall, a display of laser-cut and backlit animal silhouettes, oversized vegetables mounted on plinths, and oversized colourful lollypops hang from the ceiling. Dynamic murals of falling coffee cups splash across white tiled walls while art of large, oversized fish swim through the space. In the salad and juice bar we created a stand-out feature installation made from 2,500 faux fruits and vegetables that depicts a face inspired by the art of Italian artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
In the corridors leading up to the restrooms, a series of five photographs printed on wood panels and displayed in black custom-made metal frames were placed to showcase market food vendors from around the world, telling the story of Gastronomy’s international dining experience.
