A few years ago, Nazarian decided to call his company S.B.E., after his lawyers suggested that its previous name, Samyboy Entertainment, lacked gravitas, and in January he hired the French designer Philippe Starck to design restaurants, clubs, and hotels for him.
The loo experience has become as important to the people who design restaurants in New York as gleaming open kitchens were in the 80's.
A so-called anti-design restaurant, Acht (German for eight), is opening later this month in a space designed to look as unpolished as possible with rough-looking (but costly) materials.
What a beautifully designed restaurant this is.
Patrick Sutton has designed many residential kitchens and worked with chefs in designing restaurant kitchens.
Food carts and something called a wine porch are promised, as well as a Renzo Piano-designed restaurant.
And for contemporary, expensively designed restaurant food, try The Paul (+3375 0775, thepaul.dk) in the Tivoli amusement park.
ATMOSPHERE: Heaping plates of Italian food passed around the table in a boisterous, sleekly designed restaurant on three levels.
The hotel continues to flaunt a 14-strong fleet of the exclusive cars today, along with remodelled rooms and a Philippe Starck-designed restaurant.
His Christophe Pillet-designed restaurant (above right) will have a modern-Med menu of dishes like lobster fricassee with basil, tomato pur?and fresh gherkins.
Soak up waterfront views while dining on new Nordic cuisine at Salt, the hotel's Terance Conran-designed restaurant.
