I am absolutely in love with the ceiling of the Rosso Restaurant in northern Israel.  It reminds me of when I was a child and I would lay on my back on the floor, imagining the ceiling as another surface.  But of course my ceiling was hardly as interesting as this one.  Although I have to note that the decor, especially the wall paper in the back which completely clash with the gorgeous ceiling.  Instead of an elegant simplicity, all of the shapes and textures are competing and borderline tacky to me.  It is just not working at all which is unfortunate with such a beautifully, elegant concept.  

Instead, I’d like to ignore the rest of the room and focus on the waving “arches”.  These shapes were inspired not just by topography but by the rolling fields just outside the window.  It was these rolling hills that inspired the organic, shapely surface that was then inverted to flow over the heads of diners.

The natural image, the inspiration…

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