Jacqueline
Restaurant
The restaurant in Barcelona takes inspiration from the extravagant, eccentric style of Jacqueline Roque, Pablo Picasso’s muse and second wife. Rockwell Group’s design for the three-story restaurant is driven by an abstraction of Picasso’s atelier and his love of entertaining, as well as four distinct portraits of Jacqueline. We mixed crafted, clean art nouveau details with spontaneous, graphic, and surreal imagery and forms.
- Client
- Sutton
- Project Category
- Restaurant
The restaurant’s ground floor spaces, including the bar and main dining area, are inspired by Picasso’s “Woman in a Turkish costume seated in a chair” (1955). It’s a colorful, sensual portrait in reds, yellows and blues.
For the main dining room, we were inspired by the palm trees outside of Picasso’s original atelier in Barcelona—he loved the trees so much that when they were taken down during a construction project, he moved to a different studio.
An abstracted palm tree structure, made of bronze metal and green, mirrored glass, creates a canopy over the sushi bar counter and generates an intimate, reflective atmosphere.
The interior mixes art nouveau with classical pieces and geometric elements.
Striking handmade tiles adorn the columns around the restroom vanity, complementing the surrounding custom wallcovering inspired by vintage art nouveau posters.
The jazz club in the lower level is a nod to Picasso’s “Woman in a Mantilla Red Background” (1959), which depicts Jacqueline in a traditional black lace shawl over her head and shoulders against a bright red backdrop.
Inspired by these stark color contrasts, Rockwell Group clad the lower-level club entirely in red, with a reflective red ceiling and red columns.
