3 Interiors Trends Defining Modern Dining
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Feminine Elegance
The Restaurant: Lilibet's
Designer: Russell Sage Studio
The design for Lilibet’s is built around the idea of rooms within rooms, creating a layered layout that reveals itself gradually as you move through the space. Texture and colour do the heavy lifting: jewel tones, pattern and contrast are used with confidence, giving the interior a sense of energy without tipping into excess. The result is playful but considered, with a clear nod to the building’s history as the birthplace of Queen Elizabeth II.
Rooted in an elegantly eclectic English town-and-country aesthetic, the material palette is deliberately rich. A variety of elegant materials and finishes were used, from versatile panels to inlaid marble on the floor, as well as chintz, leathers and silks on the furniture and walls. Russell Sage Studio’s attention to detail is clear throughout, with hand-painted motifs around the room and in the bathrooms – something quite different for the Mayfair dining scene.
Old-School Glamour
The Restaurant: Martino's
Designer: Studio Dragò
The Edwardian building, designed by E.W. Mountford, immediately suggests a sense of grandeur, while the interiors channel the easy glamour of mid-century Italy complete with crisp linens, softly glowing lighting and the quiet confidence of self-assured hospitality.
Conceived by Studio Dragò – long-time collaborators of the team behind The Dover – the space has been designed to evolve throughout the day, shifting from bright and welcoming to low-lit and atmospheric by evening. Designer Fanny Baeur Grung has layered tactile finishes throughout, including half-height burl wood panelling, cream plaster walls traced with lacquered black lines and rich Venetian terrazzo flooring in deep burgundy.
Italian craftsmanship continues in the details, from Murano glass wall lights to a sculptural central bar wrapped in dark timber and brass. Above it, a glowing canopy of bottles forms a striking focal point. For restaurateur Martin Kuczmarski, it is the finishing touches – music, table settings and candlelight – that complete the room’s quietly luxurious mood.
Refined Industrial
The Restaurant: Canal
Designer: A-nrd
Set within Mason and Fifth Westbourne Park, Canal Restaurant delivers a masterclass in refined industrial style. Housed in a site once occupied by the London Taxi Drivers’ Association, the space embraces its utilitarian past, balancing exposed concrete, structural columns and visible conduits with tactile, handcrafted finishes that soften the architecture without diluting its character.
Designed by A-nrd, the interiors centre on a sculptural zinc-clad island bar crowned with creamy live-edge stone, creating a striking focal point echoed in hammered zinc shelving and warm Sapele wood. Custom beech banquettes and communal tables introduce texture and sociability beneath the raw ceiling grid, while a glazed timber canopy frames the open kitchen, offering subtle theatre without disrupting the calm.
Lighting is treated as sculpture in its own right, from crumpled washi-style pendants to softly grazing wall lights, while furniture pieces reinforce the tactile palette. The result is a quietly confident dining room where raw structure meets polished detail, and where longevity, material honesty and atmosphere sit side by side.
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