Design studio House of Baby drew on modernist architecture, such as Saigon's Independence Palace, for the interior design of Vietnamese restaurant Banh Banh in London.
House of Baby updated the interior of Banh Banh in Brixton, south London, to mark the relaunch of a new menu.
Studio founders Joseph Losper and Tomio Shota wanted to draw on the meeting between old and new culture when creating the design.
"The project reinterprets, through the perspective of contemporary artists, the 20th-century aesthetic of people gathering around a shared table amidst the intersections of old and new cultures and the rapid transformation of everyday life present at the time," Shota told Dezeen.
The restaurant is located in a narrow building, close to Brixton station and Brixton Market, that reminded the designers of buildings that they had seen in Vietnam.
"The unit shares similarities with typical Vietnamese architecture in its narrowness and exaggerated depth," Losper told Dezeen.
"The underlying layout draws on this quintessential spatial structure, observed during our research trip, where you move through layers of spaces, a front area, into a central courtyard and into a distinct rear space."
For the layout, Losper and Shota decided to create two group dining rooms to underline Banh Banh's focus on communal eating.
A pink-tiled Vietnamese shrine sits at the end of a narrow entrance, which opens up into the two dining rooms.
In the main dining room, the walls have been decorated with artworks painted by Shota. This was part of the concept behind the space, which the duo sees as an artwork in itself.
"The space is conceived as a single, immersive artwork, blending materials like wood, paint, metal, plaster, and food within a space that guests physically engage with," Shota said.
"This exploration extends into the paintings as well: materials such as metal leaf, sand, iron oxide, and powdered shells are combined with motifs related to food culture, interpreting the entire space of the restaurant as a canvas."
As well as the paintings, Banh Banh also features a hand-painted folding screen, wool tapestries and ceramic sculptures by AP Nguyen, the restaurant's head of operations.
For the colour scheme, House of Baby wanted to reference Vietnamese architecture.
"The palette draws on examples of modernist architecture such as the Independence Palace, reinforcing the concept of the space," Losper said.
Other recent restaurant openings in London include a kebab restaurant with a Berlin feel and an Iranian-Iraqi cafe in Hackney, east London.
The photography is by Anton Rodriguez.