'If Only' as featured in FX Magazine
‘If Only’…
You could escape to another world when you went to a restaurant….
By Emma Carter, Associate Creative Director
Instead of finding your way to your usual table, you could be immersed straight into the atmosphere of another country, especially if you’re unable to get there in person and are longing to experience an Italian piazza in the summer, for example, or a woodland Black Forest picnic or a Swiss mountain-top dinner.
Oasis pods would recreate each environment, with controlled heating and lighting to match the feel of the destination and wraparound light walls and ceilings playing real-time film from the desired location.
There would be no counters or queues, with all prep and admin contained in a separate service area. Food – embodying and expressing the location – would be served through a hidden platform rising up from the ground.
A cost-effective and planet-friendly way to sample culinary delights from far and wide…
About the feature
Emma Carter, Associate Creative Director
If Only’ is a regular feature, which has run for many years - where designers and architects sketch a fantasy environment or a design solution that fulfils an unmet fun / functional need.
Emma Carter’s concept is for an immersive restaurant, which offers a sense of travel and escapism without actually needing to go anywhere – a perfect response to lockdown immobility!
First published by FX Magazine, 29 March 2022
