This exuberant dhaba inspired restaurant celebrates Indian truck art heritage with its vibrancy, creating a sensory-rich eating environment engaging diners at all its touchpoints. Housing the bar, an authentic and detailed truck anchors the entire space both as a sculptural installation as well as functional seating element. Hand-painted in vivid reds with traditional motifs, this repurposed centerpiece defines this diner’s narrative. Custom chandeliers are made from coloured glass bottles in amber, green and purple.
Woven furniture in primarily warm hues of lime, mustard yellow and deep purple create patchworks of seating that is simultaneously rustic as well as energetic. The back of the chairs are in checkerboard patterns, adding to textural depth and craft in the design. Tables are dressed in colour-blocked mats continuing the rainbow palette. The walls are whitewashed in plaster and adorned with collections of retro Bollywood posters, decorative plates as sculptures and painted truck art panels. Ducting throughout the space is left exposed and painted in contrasting colours of red, yellow and turquoise making them a part of the raw design vocabulary.