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In 2006, Minneapolis’ Guthrie Theater debuted its new location, including Cue, the sophisticated, glamorous and very blue restaurant. And while blue is most cited as people’s favorite hue, it’s often avoided by the food-service industry because it’s considered an appetite suppressant. But Jean Nouvel, the celebrated French architect who designed the $125 million theater — which is blue inside and out — wanted the restaurant to be a reflection of the building whose distinctive shade, somewhere between midnight and cobalt, nearly disappears against the evening sky.Architect and interior designer Ira Keer of the Durrant Group led the design of Nouvel’s incredible horseshoe-shaped room, with 25-foot-high glass panels overlooking the Mississippi River.Keer’s design kept the blue primarily on the perimeter, while the restaurant’s heart features a more neutral palette of silver and black, with blue used sparingly as an accent, like the flecks in the granite bar tops. The walls and elaborately soundproofed ceiling were painted blue, custom-mixed to match the rest of the theater using Sherwin-Williams Color Accents® alkyd in a satin finish — painted surfaces near the kitchen needed to be washable. Accent hues, painted with Sherwin-Williams Color Accents alkyd and ProMar 200XP™ latex, included Black Magic (SW 6991), White Pepper (SW 1912) and a custom-mixed shade of gray.Interior columns wrapped with wall covering of polished aluminum fibers are lit in the evening glowing blue, with magenta and gold halos. Even the bar is illuminated with fiber-optic “coasters.”The space exudes drama, thanks to theatrical lighting and reflective surfaces.