Lucky Chan-Pan-Asian restaurant is beautified with local crafts by MAIA Design Studio

Combining the regional crafts with Tokyo-inspired color patterns, the Bangalore-based Pan Asian restaurant designed by MAIA Design Studio has much to feed the imagination besides delectable sushi and dim-sum.

Located on the ground floor of a two-storey house, the design team of MAIA Design Studio was aspired to use local materials crafted by artisans of the nearby townships of Channapata famous for wooden toys and sculptures. To lend the contemporary and unexpected contexts they imbued it with hip Harajaku style of Tokyo while developing the color palette.

Lucky Chan can be divided up into five different zones: the main dining room, the open-air section, the passageway, the sushi bar and the private dining room.

The main dining room combines granite walls with a ceiling installation.Mosaic tiles create stripy walls in the open-air section.Large surfaces of grey Sadharalli granite feature alongside ceramic tiles that combine candy shades of red, yellow, pink and green.

The main dining room is perhaps the most sophasicated and aesthetic of the spaces, although it features a very unique wing chimes  hanging from the ceiling is an installation of 250 turned-wood sculptures, created in collaboration with local artisans.

These 250 turned-wood sculptures were made by local artisans These curvaceous wooden objects celebrate the tradition of hand-lathe woodwork in the nearby township of Channapatna.

Each piece is coloured with natural lacquers, made using substances that include turmeric, walnut bark and manjista root.

A passageway section features a neon sign that reads #heretogetlucky. Mirrors lining the surrounding ceiling beams create the impression that the installation goes on forever.

The sushi bar is made from birch plywood and covered in green tiles. The seats of Wooden chairs are hand-woven with coir, a coconut fibre, making use of another local craft technique.

Mosaic tiles create a pattern of stripes on the end walls. The same tiles feature in the sushi bar, where they create a grid effect. They also form a chequerboard pattern on the table in the private dining room.

The private dining room has paneled walls and a chequerboard-patterned table.Birch plywood brings a more lightweight feel to these rooms, providing custom furniture and also paneling on the walls.

Apart from the wooden elements include a sushi bar with an integrated conveyor belt, which Jaipuria believes is the first of its kind in India.Other embellishments include silk lamps that were handmade in Pondicherry.

Photographs by Gokul Rao Kadam

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