The firm lol arquitectura was in charge of the interior and furniture design of Sibau by Bruno Oteiza. The restaurant is located in Parque Arboleda, an urban developement in San Pedro Garza García, in Mexico. The restaurant has an open kitchen, a main dining room, a wine cellar, a ten person private room, and an 18 person semiprivate room, terrace, central bar and lounge. The interior space is ordered around three well-defined volumes: cellar, main bar and open kitchen bar — the first as a glass box and the latter as a solid white marble cube.
Within the restaurant’s interior we find cubic modules of a golden metallic structure across the ceiling, that descends to the cellar’s inner structure and the wine glass holders giving a strong architectural character. The main materials are: white Volakas marble in the floor and walls. Also mirrors in the walls of main hall and the private rooms, white lacquered wood in columns and doors and a metallic structure with a golden finish in exterior and interior lattices and ceilings. The terrace is L-shaped with views to both the interior of the plaza as well as the main entrance road. The interior design was inspired by Art Deco in the use of certain materials such as bookmatched marble, the use of golden metallic elements, geometric patterns in triangle shapes and zigzags in some lattices and decorative details , and the use of velvet upholstery in blue, mustard yellow and red. Chairs, stools, sofas, lattices and exterior lamps are designed inhouse, made by our industrial design firm IOI, and their design shares these Deco influences. The lamps in the main hall vestibule and the lounge are the LAVA lamp in smoke finish by Tom Dixon. Both natural as well as artificial lighting in the restaurant’s interior allow for two different ambiences. One fresher and more casual during the day time, and the other more dramatic and formal during night time. The ceiling is covered in black accoustic material for best sound within the space. The central bar serves both the interior and the terrace. The lounge has slidding doors which enable it to be integrated with the rear of the terrace in wich we designed different types of furniture with both traditional tables, bar tables and lounges that allow to generate different outdoor scenes. The terrace is covered by light roof that protects it from the rain and sun, and underneath it we find a structure with geometric motifs which provide shade during the day. The vegetation in the terrace grow in the pavilion’s structure and in the floor the pots that are in the perimeter define the space with local plants and flowers. Special attention was given to the restrooms where we also used Volakas marble with geometric inlays in zigzag shapes in black and white marble, and golden stripes which travel the floor until they reach each individual restroom.