“Shinrakan” that was opened in an area crowded with offices and condominiums has a rectangular shape, five meters wide and twenty-five meters long. The restaurant has the three following sections: open seats, aisle seats, and private dining rooms. The interior design is done so that it can give customers a fresh impression with ‘forms’ rather than depending on special techniques or too much decoration. Benches for customers have high backs that reach the ceiling and their shapes are all different. They are designed to form one curvy line all together, like in “The Dance”, a work by a French painter Henri Matisse in which soft curvy lines of human bodies are connected to each other. Thus, the interior design of the restaurant creates a space where “movements and flows” are expressed. The lightings were also made originally for the restaurant with various shapes. The ceiling light above the open seats gives random brightness with acrylic ingots diagonally cut in various lengths. The pendant light in each private dining room is made with an acrylic board with down lights with another acrylic board attached on the top so that the strength of the light can be diversified with some light leaking from behind the acrylic board. On the wall, acrylic boards are attached in lines that are partially lightened. Internal lamps were made to give fuzzy light through an acrylic board placed on an oval-shaped board. This way lighting in the restaurant also expresses some movements and flows, just like other interior design in the space.
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