10 YARDS RESTAURANT

Erin Hinton + Robert Thorne

A project from the archives.

Some years past Erin and Robert designed a pop-up restaurant for a vacant shop front in an office building soon to be demolished.

The restaurant was called 10 Yards, alluding to the 10 growers that provided the produce.

The ceiling tiles were removed leaving the suspension grid. Walls, soffits, service items and suspension grid were painted Burnt Umber. Tables and counters were made from pine, plywood and steel, counter fronts and screens raw jute hessian.

Tables were set out in an irregular pattern.

Panels of thick industrial grade corrugated core cardboard suspended from the ceiling grid were held at the base between tables. Superscale monotone images of produce from the 10 growers were screen printed on these panels again in Burnt Umber.

The growers were listed in gold screen print on a freestanding Burnt Umber column adjacent to the entrance.