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![The secret restaurant. Hidden architecture in Madrid.
The secret restaurant. Hidden architecture in Madrid.](https://www.floornature.com/media/photos/38/8550/1_the-secret-restaurant-hidden-architecture-in-madrid_home_sez.jpg)
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The architect firm, lopezneiraciaurri provides special projects for special clients. Designing a restaurant – public premises by definition – which has to be hidden is an almost paradoxical assignment, given that architecture is normally attention-seeking.
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El Caramuxo is hidden in a cellar and access is from a public parking complex, its bare concrete entrance is perfectly in keeping with its location .
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Once you step through the doors and enter the premises, the dominant timber provides a warm welcome, and combined with the steel and glass it gives the restaurant a brighter feel.
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Despite the closed-in, windowless space the lighting design was conceived to give the idea of natural light, an effect that is also obtained through stage tricks.
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The furnishings are made to measure and no space is left unused. Glass partitions separate the kitchen and dining room without breaking up visual continuity.
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So guests find themselves in a rarefied space that the architects refer to as "surreal", where the atmosphere itself exalts the meal, because we all know that anything prohibited has its own special charm.
Project: Ramon López-Neira and Beatriz Ciaurri - atelier lopezneiraciaurri, http://www.lopezneiraciaurri.com/
Location: Madrid, Spain
Year: 2013
Photos: Miguel de Guzman, http://www.imagensubliminal.com