…it would probably look like Yogiberry. A friend wanted me to see it because she didn’t care for the interior and wanted my take on it. I hate disappointing my friends, but I thought the space was very clever.
Her complaint is that it’s cold and sterile, that it isn’t a place you’d want to hang out. I disagree, but it’s hard to explain why, since there’s no question that cool tones and non-warm-and-fuzzy materials dominate the space. There’s a lot of white plastic…I was just talking about Saarinen knockoffs, and the white tables and chairs are exactly that.
The longest wall is white and bumpy – it looks like mega-braille, actually. (Oh great. Now I can’t stop thinking about eyes in A Clockwork Orange.)
Another wall – a quasi-accent wall – is mirrored.
You’d expect the pebbled floor to support the whole cold thing. For me, though, the pebbles add some earthiness, and, oddly, they provide a counterpoint to the the 60s-mod space-age sterility.
There is SOME color. When you get your yogurt and sit on the long banquette, you have a full-on view of the stripey wall to your right as you enter the shop. That wall definitely helps warm up the space.
The colors are picked up elsewhere: the hanging light fixtures are in different pastels, for example. They imitate Flos’s Romeo Moon pendants, designed by Philippe Starck (that’s a real one at right).
The Victoria Ghost chairs, also by Philippe Starck, are in different colors, too. I think the chairs are the real deal.
You have to make an effort to notice this, but the window trim and surrounding wall is light yellow, and the ceiling is an extremely light – yes, I’ll call it icy – blue. You know how I feel about white ceilings, so that pretty much sealed the deal for me: I like this place.
Oh yeah – the yogurt’s pretty good, too.
