 |
|
|
|
 |
|||
|
"...Ciudad is both an homage to Hispanic culture and a vote of confidence in the future of downtown Los Angeles.... 'We were faced with how to make a deep dark hole into a bright cheery place,' said Mr.
Schweitzer. To this end, he has created a sunny dining area, a cantina bar, and an outdoor patio in a fresh, lemony palette of pale yellows and green, dusty oranges and slate gray. The aim was to create 'the modern
life of Latin America in the 50s and 60s,' he said. Mr. Schweitzer has accomplished this without pastiche in a breezy fusion of modernist and contemporary elements..."
|
|||
|
|
|
|
|
"... It also takes a certain confidence to paint the interior an eye-popping citrus yellow tinged with green... Murals look as if somebody with a paintbrush has tangoed right up those walls and onto the
ceiling, making loopy black lines all the way." |
|||
 |
|||