Socca restaurant seems like "a pocket of Southern France in Mayfair"

Native apply Fabled Studio has designed the interiors for London’s Socca restaurant, including hand-painted murals knowledgeable by the French Riviera.

Fabled Studio co-founder Tom Strother describes the eatery as “a pocket of Southern France in Mayfair,” with a playful and kooky inside that enhances the French Mediterranean menu.

Socca is a French restaurant in London’s Mayfair

“Each the menu and the inside are impressed by the Côte d’Azur and Good,” Strother informed Dezeen. “They’ve a laidback angle however with French finesse.”

Fabled Studio restored the unique terracotta tiles on the facade of Socca’s Grade II-listed constructing, in addition to sustaining its ornate ceiling mouldings.

Socca restaurant interior with navy booth seating, dark wood wall panelling and wall murals — Hand-painted murals beautify the partitions

The foremost eating space, named the grand salon, is adorned with wooden panelling on the decrease parts of the partitions whereas a warm-toned stucco end covers the higher parts.

Knowledgeable by French painter Raoul Dufy’s depictions of Good, artist Mark Sands hand-painted blue-toned murals onto the partitions to border the hung artworks.

Socca restaurant interior with booth seating and blue wall murals informed by France — Darkish wooden and bronze particulars function all through the inside

Darkish wooden parquet covers the flooring and quick cream curtains have been used to separate the eating room’s navy-blue leather-based banquette seats.

The curtains are suspended from bronze steel rails, with matching metallic particulars dotted across the room within the type of fixtures and lights together with the whimsical shell-shaped sconces.

To the facet of the eating area is a bar topped with Breccia Violetta marble. This backs onto a trio of arched mirrors in a wood field body, stretching as much as the identical top as the image rail moulding that encircles the room.

Past the grand salon is a second bar area with oxblood leather-based seating and murals depicting illustrations of leaves and faces.

Socca restaurant interior with wood wall panelling and a marble bar — Breccia Violetta marble tops the bar

On the rear of the restaurant is a second eating area named the petit salon, designed to have a comfortable, virtually residential look.

The petit salon is dominated by inexperienced hues, discovered throughout partitions and seats to distinguish it from the opposite eating area.

“We did this to present it a distinct identification and distinctive persona to the grand salon,” mentioned Strother.

Socca restaurant interior with green-hued walls, ornate ceiling mouldings and hand-painted murals — Inexperienced tones have been used within the petit salon

Extra hand-painted murals by Sands adorn the partitions, together with curving frames, faces and curling vines knowledgeable by artist and poet Jean Cocteau.

Downstairs, the loos have been additionally designed to have a “residential atmosphere” with striped wallpaper, marble vanities and bronze {hardware}.

Bar stools at a marble table at Socca restaurant — Murals on the partitions have been knowledgeable by French artists

Fabled is a London-based inside design apply based in 2011 by Tom Strother and Steven Saunders. Socca is the sixth restaurant the apply has accomplished in collaboration with restauranteur Samyukta Nair of LSL Capital.

Different London eating places just lately featured on Dezeen embrace 20 Berkeley, with Arts-and-Crafts-style interiors by Pirajean Lees, and an Italian restaurant designed to imitate the glamorous environment of a Nineteen Eighties Italo-American trattoria.

The images is by James McDonald.