Since it first opened, Barcelona restaurant Tickets has had an additional area for visitors used as the snack-cocktail bar: 41 grados. Over time and given the success of the main establishment, an extension has had to be added on using the space where the cocktail bar was formerly located.
The new ‘desserts bar’ has been set up in this part of the establishment; it was designed by the El Equipo Creativo, which is the very same studio that originally created and designed the layout of the space in Tickets.
According to Albert Adriá: “I wanted to create a new space that would organise and complement the desserts available at Tickets, and I thought it would be a good idea to base this on children’s stories where the desserts have a special role”.
Under this premise, Oliver Franz Schmidt and Natali Canas del Pozo came up with a fruit ceiling taken out of context and scale, akin to the worlds of Alice in Wonderland or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
The technical challenge involved encourages Albert Adriá to put his trust in the El Taller de Piñero, a company that specialises in the thematic decoration of business establishments.
The joint venture between El Taller de Piñero and El Equipo Creativo started off with the drawing up of simple plans that marked out the location and the desired amount of fruit to be used, along with the hand moulded individual prototypes of the pieces of fruit that were gradually developed throughout the process. They also worked on designing chairs, benches and tables, which were all unique.
The objective was to come up with a completely original design that blended in with the existing space, in which more than 1000 pieces of fruit made of fibreglass resin would produce an explosion of colour that would really distinguish the new dessert bar.
El Equipo Creativo believes that this new space is like “the icing on the cake” for diners; the finishing touches for which El Taller de Piñero had to take into account the actual weight of the materials used in each one of the pieces, which were designed, produced and painted by hand in the record time of one month.
José Miguel Piñero, the Director of El Taller de Piñero went on to say that “More than just a challenge, this project has been pure luck. We love working on unconventional ideas, especially when we get results like those attained at Tickets”.
