Le Chabanais by Clément Blanchet

Clement Blanchet Architecture team has designed this new restaurant which opens its doors in one of the most “chic” neighborhoods of London with Iñaki Aizpitarte as cooker. The restaurant has two dining rooms in which emphasizes the use of brass and marble. Both are present throughout its design.

In this new project Clement Blanchet Architecture promotes new ways to experience the eating and new social configurations. This new restaurant has two dining rooms, one at the ground floor for 90 guests and one downstairs with capacity for 10 guests.

Description of the project by Clement Blanchet

If the past and the future had decided to celebrate the contemporary, Le Chabanais would be the result of their timeless pleasure.

Located on the “très chic” Mount Street in London, the upcoming restaurant will treat at equivalence the past, the present and the future. The project is an intimate articulation between the food and architecture. It promotes transparence, presence of colors, timeless materials.

On the ground floor, a brass envelope projects a continuous atmosphere sublimated by three mineral stripes ( all different marbles ). Those lines are the base for the concept on which the experience of food and eating becomes an unique one. The presence of a main high table surrounded by high wood stools is mixed with the place where the waiters work. This combination of traditional materials transformed in a very modern composition, is improvising a certain definition of pleasure. The brass «container» will contemplate and dialogue with the original listed ceiling. The layout of the tables made of marbles provides several ways of experiencing eating and promotes new social configurations.

In the basement is structured a very intimate bar with a unique Triangular bar shape surrounded by green leather and white marble.

Not considered as decoration but as architecture, the project is like an urban architectural folly. This one, Le Chabanais is not dedicated to libertine pleasures, however, but to the food excellence experiences. We decided to turn materials usually associated with cook instruments (the brass) or with sterile lobbies (the marbles) into an abstract veneer reflecting subtle hedonistic experiences.

Text.- Clement Blanchet Architecture.

CREDITS. TECHNICAL DATA.-

Architect.- Clement Blanchet.
Cook.- Iñaki Aizpitarte.
Client.- Varun Talreja.
Budget.- Undisclosed.
Program.- Restaurant Bar.
Location.- 8 Mount Street, London.

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CLEMENT BLANCHET

Clément Blanchet Architecture (cBA) is an innovative architecture and urban design practice that brings together multidisciplinary and multicultural actors on themes around the city, architecture and all media related to it. The firm approaches the design of architecture, infrastructure and the city as necessarily interrelated, and in negotiation with planning, development and public space. The practice is structured as a laboratory, informing and generating architecture and urbanism out of the conditions of the city and territory.

The synergy between theory and practice is the base of its methodological approach. The practice engages the consciousness of reality, of the real world, but also the analysis of phenomena – environmental, developmental, economic - that affect and feed architecture. This methodology not only deals with inventions but also with manipulations, making program legible, and ensuring resilience and durability over time. This structure operates at multiple scales; from designing interiors to public cultural facilities, while considering specific approaches in the areas of education, housing, infrastructure, landscape and urbanism. The firm has also developed tools for dialogue with different urban and project actors, aimed to place the user at the heart of the creative process.

Clément Blanchet is Principle of Clément Blanchet Architecture (cBA) and a former Associate of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), where he joined in 2004.

In 2011, Clement Blanchet was appointed Director of OMA France, with whom cBA continues to collaborate with on ongoing projects led by Blanchet.

He graduated with high honours from the Architectural school of Versailles and has been an invited critic in France, England, Holland, Switzerland, Denmark & Sweden. He currently teaches at Paris Val de Seine Architectural School and ESA. Clément Blanchet divides his time between this firm in Paris and the United States where he also teaches at the University of Michigan and Rice University.