Four kinetic chandeliers dance to the sounds of techno house in the Opera. No, that’s not a fantastic dream, but the new look of the old Opera café in Sofia, Bulgaria. That’s another successful project of IDEA Interior Design Company.
Opera café is located in the center of the Bulgarian capital, in a Sofia’s historic opera house. It’s a café-bar that smells like an art place but gathers the hip after-work crowd.
IDEA manage to create an unique subtle contemporary environment with an open bar which essentially has no bar surface but is rather a series of stone cubes around which guests gather. The interior is completed with custom concrete cast lighting and the one of kind kinetic chandeliers.
“The venue being basically a former hallway– it is as high as it is wide. To fill this square we decided we need chandeliers, but as the clients wanted to have live entertainment, the chandeliers would pose a visual obstacle. So we asked “What if we could move the chandeliers out of the way when we need to, and put them back in when we are done?” so the idea of the kinetic chandelier came to life”, said the IDEA’s CEO Alexander Kovachev.