Restaurant design master David Rockwell spoke recently on the importance of theater in designing great restaurants. Rockwell is the creative mind behind the design of 19 of Nobu’s restaurants worldwide and some of his past major projects have included The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas Hotel, the W Hotel in Union Square, and the Kodak Theatre, home of the Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles.
“You have to think of a restaurant as a series of impressions,” Rockwell explained to Business Insider at a recent press event in The Standard hotel in Manhattan’s trendy Meatpacking District. “But what makes my job so great is there’s no one answer that’s right for every restaurant.” But one theme does follow Rockwell in all of his designs: the relationship and overlap between theater and architecture.
We would agree. TabletopJournal has spoken often of the “theater of dining” and the ability of tabletop to elevate the entire dining experience.
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