Fish Fetish Restaurant

DA BUREAU

Short description

Fish Fetish is a fish cuisine restaurant with an ambitious and challenging concept, located in the very center of Moscow.

The key focus of the design was the creation of an extraordinary maritime space with hints of fetishism, where both fish and fetish are equally balanced. The bureau wanted to highlight the duality of the project – the unexplored ocean depth and human in-depth desires.

This project relies on double meanings and second-order associations. It is a curious interpretation of the seabed in a minimalistic and provocative design that combines both marine inhabitants and fetish images.
The fish concept is not represented here with scales and fins, but rather with sea stones, crabs, corals, and jellyfish in a modern interpretation.

The center of the space is an open kitchen. It is a real pearl of the restaurant, carefully guarded by huge latex octopus tentacles and all kinds of marine life. They are enlaced with luminous jellyfish tails, well-textured corals and bright algae that also show up in the design of the entrance to the restaurant.

The space practically has no straight lines or sharp corners; this and diffused soft light reflecting from metal panels create a biomorphic environment with blurred lines and contrasting oceanic textures. All elements seem to be in dynamics, either smooth or rhythmic, thus making an effect of moving aquatic environment.

Streamline forms and slender tubular structures get intertwined to build harmonious, sexually seductive outlines on the background of a vast ocean space.