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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.

The Standard Café in Montréal, Canada by Jean de Lessard – Designers Créatifs

 
April 27th, 2017 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: v2com

Jean de Lessard – Designers Créatifs has designed for Westmount’s café The Standard, a space of symmetry where the minimalistic narrative blends in subtly with the sophisticated look of a period café, thus redefining the codes of such a venue where varieties of Grand Cru coffee and gourmet pastries are served.

Facade, Image Courtesy © Adrien Williams

  • Architects: Jean de Lessard – Designers Créatifs
  • Project: The Standard Café
  • Location: Montréal, Canada
  • Photography: Adrien Williams
  • Software used: Autocad
  • Client: The Standard
  • Project coordinator: Alexa Adam Designer
  • Flooring: Plancher Mirage; Amélie Bolduc Monette
  • Lighting: Lambert & Fils
  • Materials: hickory, white quartz, brass finish metal
  • Parameters: floor surface of 600 square feet

Image Courtesy © Adrien Williams

After an intense drawing phase, as a result, the design is focused on the straight line, the balance of proportions and the alignment of the architectural elements with the brass finish wall profiles. These profiles are creating the illusion of wainscoting and the false beams of the ceiling, that of caissons. Such a subterfuge brings a sense of spaciousness and classicism to the small café. Positioning of the custom furniture including the seemingly free-floating pastry showcase is keeping with the notions of horizontality and verticality. There is also similarity in the degree of angularity that both the armrests of the armchairs and the coffee tables present. For an even more stylish effect, a pony hair-like fabric has been mixed with the ever classic herringbone pattern of the fabric on the low-legged armchairs and that of the hickory floor.

Image Courtesy © Adrien Williams

Image Courtesy © Adrien Williams

In this deep ebony shell at the heart of which stark lighting enhances the luster of brass, the interior design firm wanted to shake the prevailing order a bit; the slight displacement of the imposing white quartz worktop, a strong element in the project, thus gives rhythm to this refined place smoothly.

Image Courtesy © Adrien Williams

Image Courtesy © Adrien Williams

About Jean de Lessard – Designers Créatifs

Under the direction of principal designer Jean de Lessard, who’s combining more than 25 years of design practice in various sectors, the firm is designing a diversity of vocational spaces, including restaurants, hotels, offices and boutiques. The firm’s approach is intuitive and relies on singular deconstruction principles that are breaking usual codes and freeing spaces and their occupants from trivial concepts.

Pastry showcase, Image Courtesy © Adrien Williams

The firm is a laureate of Las Vegas A.R.E. Gold Award, of the Interior Design’s Best of Year Awards in New York and a finalist of the Restaurant & Bar Design Award in London. The firm’s projects have also won in Chicago, Munich and many times at the Grands Prix du Design in Montreal. Their work is widely published internationally.

Image Courtesy © Jean de Lessard – Designers Créatifs

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