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Copper captivates

The flexible metal is darling of restaurant design

Lisa Jennings, Executive Editor

September 6, 2017

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It offers both warmth and a bit of bling. Copper has become the metal of choice in restaurant design, showing up in everything from lighting fixtures and bar surfaces to cocktail glasses.

In London, for example, the restaurant Bandol in Chelsea serves up dishes from the south of France in a restaurant that glows with copper. The bar and table tops are copper, as are wall and lighting fixtures, giving the room a golden glow.

Copper also tops the bar at Monkey Bar in Arcadia, Calif. In Fort Worth, Texas, copper and tin pieces evoke a school of fish floating over diners at the coastal cuisine restaurant Waters.

Across the country, Moscow mule mugs have morphed into copper pineapples or garden gnomes by Absolut Elyx. This summer, for example, Absolut Elyx’s copper gnomes have become the Instagrammed symbol of EMP Summer House in the Hamptons, a temporary restaurant operated by the team of Eleven Madison Park while the New York mothership restaurant is renovated.

About the Author

Lisa Jennings

Executive Editor, Nation's Restaurant News and Restaurant Hospitality

Lisa Jennings is executive editor of Nation’s Restaurant News and Restaurant Hospitality. She joined the NRN staff as West Coast editor in 2004 as a veteran journalist. Before joining NRN, she spent 11 years at The Commercial Appeal, the daily newspaper in Memphis, Tenn., most recently as editor of the Food and Health & Wellness sections. Prior experience includes staff reporting for the Washington Business Journal and United Press International.

Lisa’s areas of expertise include coverage of both large public restaurant chains and small independents, the regulatory and legal landscapes impacting the industry overall, as well as helping operators find solutions to run their business better.

Lisa Jennings’ experience:

Executive editor, NRN (March 2020 to present)

Executive editor, Restaurant Hospitality (January 2018 to present)

Senior editor, NRN (September 2004 to March 2020)

Reporter/editor, The Commercial Appeal (1990-2001)

Reporter, Washington Business Journal (1985-1987)

Contact Lisa Jennings at:

[email protected]

@livetodineout

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-jennings-83202510/

 

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