The café-restaurant is located in an old canning warehouse in Barcelona with a great deal of personality, structure wise. The designers wanted to emphasize this aspect by adding a bright red in order to unify the different areas. Two arcades frame the central space with double height and serve as background for the two bars facing each other from opposite sides. Next to the white arcade on the facade is “El Mama”, a 360-degree daytime bar on a white surface, cozy with details of wood and much vegetation. At the opposite extreme on the black arcade is the cocktail bar “La Papa” with a black metallic industrial surface, it offers the nocturnal counterpoint.
El Mama – La Papa, Barcelona, Spain
Program: bar and restaurant
Design: El Equipo Creativo
Team: Oliver Franz Schmidt, Natali Canas del Pozo, Lucas Echeveste Lacy
Completion: 2017