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Carissa Thompson,
NCIDQ, IIDA, NEWH
Design Director,
Kimberly Timmons
Interiors
carissat@
ktinteriors.net
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1. Flooring: Evoke Luxury Vinyl
Restaurants are high foot-traffic environments or they go
out of business, making durable flooring essential to with-
stand wear. Crafting an ideal dinning experience starts with
the customer’s very first step and the warm, natural-looking
Evoke Luxury Vinyl flooring presents an ideal combination
of beauty and durability in realistic wood. Evoke’s manufac-
turing capabilities allow top and edge, hand-scraped detail-
ing to make each plank feel as genuine as real wood without
out all the maintenance.
2. Tables: FLAT Self-Leveling Table Base
Few things can ruin a diner’s experience faster than a
wobbly table. FLAT Technologies’ ingenious, hydraulic
self-leveling table bases allow each of the base’s four feet
to individually adjust to any surface. With variability between
pads of up to 8mm, adjoining multiple tables are automat-
ically aligned and level when group seating is put together.
Once the table is placed, the feet lock into position keeping
it level and stable – no more stuffing coasters under the feet.
3. Display: Vintage View Wine Storage
Savvy restaurateurs know effective merchandizing is es-
sential to strong sales and an elegant label-forward wine
display is a great way to showcase high revenue products.
Vintage View’s diverse wine storage options include wall
mounted, freestanding and customizable designed dis-
plays. The wall-mounted Vino Pins, for example, is a min-
imalist design available in aluminum, anodized black, and
the ultra-sleek clear acrylic, which creates the effect of a
floating display.
4. Lighting: The Dallas Chandelier by Arteriors
Nothing enhances ambiance more than lighting. Like a
halo over the room, carefully selected decorative lighting
sets the tone for the guest’s experience. Lighting selections
are virtually endless and designers consider everything
about the client’s theme, menu, customer and objectives in
blending different lighting fixtures together to reveal layers
of depth within restaurants. As an example, Dallas Chande-
lier by Arteriors combines a midcentury-inspired aesthetic
and a 21st century take on Sputnik to become a glowing
sculpture suspended in space above the diner’s horizon.
5. Tile: Mosaico Digitale
Tying together many different elements from furnish-
ings and lighting to floors and artwork in a well-designed
space is often facilitated by the appropriate selection of
wall materials. An exciting option in surface treatments is
a modern mosaic tile from Mosacio Digitale. Blending the
centuries-old craftsmanship of mosaics with today’s digital
technology, these lightweight, durable, resin tiles can be
made in virtually any color, pattern, size or shape imagin-
able. The titles can be adapted to any surface whether flat,
curved or angular and are priced to make them an equally
attractive option for a wow element or a background accent.
Designer Approved
