Client: Egeo
Instagram: @egeosuvlakeriagriega
Address: Carrer del Literat Azorín, 8, 46006 València, Spain
Design: Masquespacio
Instagram: @masquespacio_ana Instagram: @masquespacio_chris
Photography: Sebastian Erras
Surface: 100 m2
Opening: March 2022
Suppliers & Materials
Construction: Instalaciones del Puerto
Furniture & Customized Lighting: Design Masquespacio, Local production
Columns: Design Masquespacio, production: Iberpoligraph
Microcement: Nivel 2
About Masquespacio
Masquespacio is an award-winning creative consultancy created in 2010 by Ana Milena Hernández Palacios and Christophe Penasse.
Combining the 2 disciplines of their founders, interior design and marketing, the Spanish design agency creates branding and interior projects through a unique approach that results in fresh and innovative concepts rewarded with a continued international recognition by media specialized in design, fashion and life-style trends.
They have worked on projects in several countries like Norway, USA, France, Portugal, Germany and Spain. Actually, they are working on different projects in Spain, Saudi Arabia, Cambodia, Germany, Qatar, Italy, France, USA & Austria.
Masquespacio presents Egeo, the first Greek restaurant that the studio led by Ana Milena Hernández and Christophe Penasse designed in Valencia.
The design started when Thanasis and Ana contacted Masquespacio to create their first Egeo in Valencia. Counting already with 2 restaurants in Madrid, the souvlaki (Greek meat and vegetables brochettes) chain founded by Thanasis, was looking for an interior design studio that could give continuity to its already existing interior design identity.
Christophe Penasse: “When Ana and Thanasis commented us they wanted to open an Egeo in Valencia, we were immediately excited about the idea, as since a while we were keen to develop a Greek restaurant. Above we also felt a special connection with their history.”
The biggest challenge was although that they didn’t want a huge change in the design for their first space in Valencia. Christophe Penasse: “If you follow our work, you know that we like to break with the existing for which it was a huge challenge for us to respect their minimalistic Greek design and at the same time offer a different experience.”
Initially we maintained Egeo’s white and blue color palette, although we searched to bring the space closer to Greece, applying the beauty of cementish materials that are so typical for the an-cient Greek houses.
Ana Milena Hernández: “We tried to materialize Greece in the space, further than just using the usual white and blue color pal-ette.” The walls above incorporate volumes with organic forms as one of the most highlighting features from the space, continuing with the search to represent the essence of Greek architecture.
The most standing out element from the design is although a se-ries of Greek columns in a deteriorated state, painted here in blue.
Ana Milena Hernández: The question we asked ourselves with the introduction of the columns was how to modernize this in Greek architecture traditional element that is represented in his classical state in Greek restaurants all around the world.”
For the recreation of the columns in their modern version a blue color was used, while they were produced with a 3D printer. At the same time led tubes were added to the structure. The regular color was challenged, next to its production technique, making them a contemporary element produced with 21st century tech-nology.
Last but not least, the order bar was situated in the middle of the space with the aim to recreate a bustling environment like if you were ordering your souvlaki from a mobile kiosk in the middle of a Greek market.
