Sakura

Designed as a sister venue to the client’s established kaiten sushi venues of the same name, Sakura is conceived as a moody, intimate Izakaya. The interior reworks traditional Japanese influences with a contemporary hand, fusing roughly hewn finishes, expressed junctions and diffused light to explore tensions between precision and rawness. Sakura places the revolving sushi train at the centre of the patron experience, bordered by a backdrop of glowing rice paper screens, inspired by traditional ‘shoji’ dividers. Walls and ceilings are saturated in deep olive render, while Japanese ceramic tiles line the floors throughout, enlivened by dancing shadow and light.

Photography by Timothy Kaye.

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