- Type
- Hospitality
- Location
- Dibrugarh, Assam
- Size
- 4,300 sq ft
- Status
- Built 2022
The furniture layout: reception and waiting by the lift, kitchen behind, seating turned outward — captioned with what it looks at, the Laptang range.
The cafe pulled open: couple seating on the panoramic side, the stage set mid-room to divide it, and a jaali wall that doubles as a trophy wall.
Section through both levels: kitchen and service way below, the glazed viewing side kept open, the cantilevered fifth floor roofed in truss and asphalt sheet.
The palette: teak veneer and cane against lime-based paint, patterned encaustic tile, and chevron and gradient fabrics for the seating.
The entry as designed: the jaali wall of pockets and rattan discs, and the desk below it wearing a neon hello.
The walk in, past a planter and a verdigris column, with the service counter and its glazed hatch to the kitchen running alongside.
The stage sits in the middle rather than at one end, so it divides the room and everyone gets an angle on it.
Looking across the lounge seating to the wall, and the line the cafe gave itself: escape the ordinary.
The room as a whole, with the long glazed edge and the sunset it was planned around.
Glazing on two sides at dusk — marble tables, cane chairs, and a swing hung in the corner.
The reception backdrop set out module by module — R for rattan mesh, O for a complete cutout, and a CNC-cut motif between them.
The reception desk drawn to build: four feet of fluted wooden slats, a black granite top with a one-inch brass border, and the neon fixed to the face.
The service table, five feet of it — rattan backing on the furniture face, concealed drawer handles, and a brass rail for back support.
The dining room, the kitchen open to it behind a run of planters, drum shades over the tables and the terrace beyond.
The corridor built — timber beams overhead, planters along the rail, and the arched cutout in the door at the end.
Through the doors: the desk, its neon, and a brass rhino keeping watch on the granite.
The backdrop as built, module for module against the drawing — arches, cutouts and rattan discs.
Evening service, seen over one of the planters that divide the room.
The big pendant overhead, cane banded between two drums of fabric.
From the corner, back across the tables to the banquette.
Spindle frames and mustard cushions, with planting used to hold the edge of each setting.
A pair of settees turned in on a marble table — the jaali wall just visible past the column.
The pendants, terracotta over a rattan band. Lighting by Olie.
The jaali wall as built, in apricot, its niches holding cuttings rather than trophies.
The couple seating the plan promised, in daylight, with the whole valley in front of it.