Restaurants Are in Their Blue Period

"During its tenure, Horses, the now-infamous Los Angeles restaurant, was similarly eye-catching: a shock of glossy Yves Klein blue on Sunset Boulevard, the color named for the French artist who made it famous. Across the city, Electric Bleu - which gets its name from the 1987 song by Australian band Icehouse - features a towering panel on its exterior in the same shade, thanks to its owners' similar affinity for the artist. It projects upward above the restaurant's entrance, looking, at the right angle, like a lightning bolt has struck life into the otherwise gray-and-brick building."

"Abroad, some restaurants have taken this very blue trend to its ultimate conclusion. The exterior of Patio, a wine bar in Brighton, England, is painted a blue so saturated that it almost looks fake in pictures. The same goes for the interiors of Berlin's Cafe Gentil, monochromatic Yves Klein blue from moldings to baseboards. And at Singapore's Punch Room, everything that isn't wood, glass, or metal is the same color - a true example of monochromania. (New York City had a place like this, too: the short-lived Only Love Strangers, all cobalt and chrome.)"

"Are restaurants in a blue moment? Absolutely, says Anna Polonsky, who runs the hospitality-focused branding and design studio Polonsky & Friends. Those blue boxes holding NYC's statusy Ceres pizzas? Her studio's work, as are the cool blue accents at seafood spot Penny. While there is some variation in these blues - Yves Klein blue isn't the same as Majorelle blue, though the two might look identical to the untrained eye - there is indeed a bia"

Margot in Brooklyn features a two-story exterior painted a very saturated blue. Horses in Los Angeles used glossy Yves Klein blue on Sunset Boulevard. Electric Bleu in Los Angeles displays a towering exterior panel in the same shade. Patio in Brighton, England uses an even more saturated blue exterior that appears almost fake in photos. Cafe Gentil in Berlin is monochromatic in Yves Klein blue from moldings to baseboards. Punch Room in Singapore applies the color to everything except wood, glass, and metal. Branding and design studios cite blue as a current hospitality design direction, with variations across different blue shades.

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