Lee Restaurant
Lee Restaurant
Lee Restaurant
Lee Restaurant
Lee Restaurant
Lee Restaurant
Lee Restaurant
The new home for Lee Restaurant, the primary business of Toronto celebrity chef Susur Lee, has all the luxe finishes you’d expect to see: walnut millwork, rich wall tapestries, vintage upholstery. But a few elements elevate the space above even its most auspicious peers. Collaborators Bent Gable Design and Futurestudio created railings that resemble abacuses. They commissioned artist Echo Electra to build a plaster host desk with perforations reminiscent of coral. In what is perhaps their most inspired visual motif, the designers arranged the dining room in a series of tiers that step down from the main entrance, like a waterfall or a terraced rice field.
Team: Ali McQuaid Mitchell (Futurestudio), Brenda Bent and Karen Gable (Bent Gable Design); with Susur Lee; Rob Cameron (Epilogue Developments); Jonathan Keating, Dylan Chrus and Jamie Rowland (Cooper Gordon); Andy Shahin (Canara); Emily Schorn (Futurestudio); Camal Pirbhai (Studio La Beauté); and Echo Electra
A few elements elevate Lee Restaurant above even its most auspicious peers.
