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McDonalds by Patrick Norguet

McDonald's by Patrick Norguet

Fast-food giant McDonald's have commissioned designer Patrick Norguet to redesign their restaurant interiors across France.

McDonalds by Patrick Norguet

While the chain has come to appeal primarily to teenagers, Norguet wants to rebrand it as a place for families.

McDonalds by Patrick Norguet

The space is divided by plywood cabinets, shelving and booths, and furnished with his own Still metal chair for Lapalma.

McDonalds by Patrick Norguet

Customers can order at the counter or from digital terminals in family booths.

McDonalds by Patrick Norguet

The neutral pallette is highlighted with orange and yellow metal storage boxes, plus red and dark green upholstery.

McDonalds by Patrick Norguet

Other designer updates to fast-food restaurants include a Little Chef outlet by Ab Rogers and a chicken shop in Munich by Ippolito Fleitz Group.

McDonalds by Patrick Norguet

Here are some more details from Patrick Norguet:


New interior design for McDonald's restaurants in France by Patrick Norguet

McDonald's has put Patrick Norguet in charge of designing the new architectural identity for its restaurants in France. A project which is exciting in terms of its scope as well as in its technical and sociological constraints since it concerned McDonald's returning to its founding myth: familial fast food. If the brand was originally founded on the family, its image has little by little slid towards a more urban and adolescent tone. A return therefore to McDo’s DNA with this new interior design that Patrick Norguet, literally and figuratively, matches with getting back to roots.

McDonalds by Patrick Norguet

The plant metaphor, with its branching development, this root common to the brand and to the family, is transformed here into an architecture which is transversal and expansive: birch plywood takes root and branches out in the restaurant in order to create areas, functions and moods for different social requirements without compartmentalising.

McDonalds by Patrick Norguet

This organic and functional furniture/architecture offers several possibilities, several eating choices from eating standing up for lone teenagers, alcoves providing privacy to family table service, a small revolution at Mc Donald’s with digital control terminals integrated into the base and distributed throughout the restaurant. Henceforth, a mother can settle with her offspring at a table, order from a nearby terminal and wait for the meals to be brought to the table.

McDonalds by Patrick Norguet

Patrick Norguet’s design, which as always hits the spot, uses contemporary white which he counterbalances with fun colours without falling for "toy" conventions like for example the storage elements with the painted metal boxes included in the base template. The luminous ambiance and the quality of the acoustics are exceptionally meticulous and offer customers a comfort which is rare today, whilst the quest for a certain radical nature is revealed through the choice of materials (plywood, sheet metal, concrete, etc.), tested in conditions of heavy passage to respond to the constraints of such a popular restaurant.

McDonalds by Patrick Norguet

The designer is using his "Still" metal chair for Lapalma for the seats with a new high stool version specially designed for the occasion. The ceramic floor also designed by Patrick Norguet for Lea Ceramica immediately lends a distinctive tone to the venue. These huge, ultra-slim 2 metre slabs break with usual visual conventions: warm and graphic without being carpet, they change our habits in terms of flooring to create a brand new typology.

McDonalds by Patrick Norguet

Piloted at the start of the year in the Villefranche-de-Lauragais restaurant 40 km from Toulouse, the concept was immediately appealing and spoke volumes. 6 restaurants are currently in the pipeline throughout France.