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Portfolio Category: RESTAURANT/BAR

RIVER DIVA EVENT VENUE

RIVER DIVA EVENT VENUE

Budapest I design concept, execution I 2024

Set on the waters of the Danube, this event venue redefines modern elegance with its ability to host up to 600 guests. Reflective elements—mirrors, metal sheets—capture the flow of the river, enhancing the venue’s connection to its surroundings. The design features terracotta and blue hues, blending earth and water, while a stunning Kriska Decor installation above the bar steals the show. A visible kitchen workspace adds a unique interactive element, while custom wavy designed walls in the bathrooms echo the water’s movement. With flowing textile panelling and mirrored ceilings, the space is a celebration of curves, reflections, and natural forms.

ZAZIE BISTRO

ZAZIE BISTRO

Budapest I design concept I 2023

Zazie Bistro&Bar, the new restaurant of the MOL Campus, was realized based on the interior design concept of este’r partners. Operating as a café in the morning, a bistro during the day and a casual bar in the evening, at Zazie you can experience a real sense of flow: nature shines through not only on the large glass surfaces but also in the interior, you can relax in small bays in the cozy lounge area and have lunch or dinner in cool restaurant booths. The interior design team has focused on the Danube experience, as they explained there are very few restaurants in Budapest where you can sit near the river during a long lunch or a night out. The MOL Campus also has a unique feature: while the modern high-rise building designed by Foster+Partners of London has a contemporary style, it overlooks the former factory buildings of the Buda Danube district, continuing the bay of Lágymányos. Modern glass surfaces, stunning views and an old industrial quarter in the distance are coupled with beautiful natural features: pampas grasses dancing in the wind, a green riverbank and sunshine.

Custom textile design by este’r partners

Custom carpet design by este’r partners

H6

H6

Budapest I design concept I 2016

The team of este’r partners planned a community space in the historical building of Budapest’s city center. The plan evokes the world of classic elegant shops in London or Paris, where a store and a café coexist. The communal spaces designed in the first Hungarian bank building respect the values and the atmosphere of the building and the downtown milieu, while the alternation of enclosed and open spaces bring playfulness to the interior space.

MINUTE LOUNGE & BAR

MINUTE LOUNGE & BAR

Budapest I design concept I execution I 2019

Metropolitan atmosphere that evokes the coolest places in New York, Milan or Paris: the lounge & bar unit of Hotel Moments’ on Andrássy Avenue opened in 2020. Forest green and dark blue upholstery, glossy eco-leather surfaces, huge mirrors and unique chandeliers exude elegance and clarity. The classic, but clean and sophisticated interior complements the excellent facilities of the historic building.

LOCK BUDAPEST

LOCK BUDAPEST

Budapest I design concept I execution I 2016

The former discotheque in the heart of Budapest has opened its doors again in the end of the year 2016. After a long preparation period the place has been turned into a world-class luxury member club with its special concept and exclusive design.The design of the spacious club ensures the first floor to remain the place of the members, while onthe entrance level people can enjoy the dance floor, the bars or choose a confortable sofa.

Photo: Zsolt Batár

BISTRO FINE

BISTRO FINE

Budapest I design concept I execution I 2016

The impressive old building has been transformed into an elegant hotel in the heart of Budapest. The 5star Bistro Fine is on one hand, an unseparable area of the hotel since it fulfills many neccessary functions, breakfast area, restaurant and lounge bar.  On the other hand, it also serves the public, as a street-opening bar. It is one property, although the design separates the darker, intimate bar from the light, sunlit breakfast area. The long, narrow area is divided by steel shelf structure, and behind every shelf, you find a different space.  The old doors removed from the building during the renovation have been brought into a new life using them as decorative panels attached to the ceiling, made their outline highlighted by LED-lighting. The shelves, the built-in sofas, the counter, some lamps and the bar are custom-made elements, the other furniture pieces, including the comfortable armchairs, diamond shape lamps, tables, chairs and the huge glasses are designer pieces from over the world. The bar design incorporates the historical little yellow underground running Andrássy street. The colours bring out the 100-year old building’s structure.

Photo: Pál Tamás   

GOOD SPIRIT WHISKY BAR

GOODSPIRIT WHISKY & COCTAIL BAR

Budapest I design concept I execution I 2023

The L-shaped space incorporates a whisky bar, a shop and a conference room inspired by Scottish distilleries, cosmopolitan atmosphere and industrial elements.

The massive, more than 10 meter long and curved counter of the bar embraces the whole space, the art of making cocktails can be seen everywhere. It is always a special attraction when bartenders gain the ingredients of the requested cocktails by using the sliding metal ladders.

Photo: Pál Tamás

BÁRKERT BISTRO

BÁRKERT BISTRO

Budapest I design planning I design concept I 2016

The bistro situated below the Buda Castle in a prestigious historical building called Várkert Bazár. Bárkert Bistro recently moved into this unique environment  providing modern, elegant atmosphere, where windows and plants reaching up to the ceiling and international range of food can be found.   The new restaurant is not only a new culinary highlight but offers a beautiful panorama of the city and the Danube and quality recreation in a cosmopolitan atmosphere. The interior design concept matched the elegant style of the building with romantic and bohemian elements, concentrating on harmony and nature. The place turned into a grandiose, elegant-yet-casual bar, targeting both locals and foreign guests. In the high ceiling space mirrors covering the side walls and an old painting technics, paint-roller decoration has given a new life. 

Photo: Norbert Hartyanyi

ZWACK UNICUM VISITOR’S CENTRE AND HERBAL BAR

ZWACK UNICUM VISITOR'S CENTRE AND HERBAL BAR

Budapest I design concept I execution I 2016

UNICUM is one of Hungary’s most popular and ancient herb liqueurs. Our task was to create the “Herbal Bar” for Unicum tasting within the original and old premises of the Unicum factory in the heart of Budapest. The middle of the tasting room is occupied by a movable trolley bar. Through newly created glass walls we ensured that the visitor gets a perfect view of the stored herbs which are the basis of the Unicum liqueur. The lightening system of the bar is custom-made of copper piping to show and reflect the factory background of this space. All these elements strongly support the styling of the central bar. The tables are made of carved full wood and the freely moveable chairs in blue-greenish colour reflect to the factory’s colour scheme. The simple but stylish concrete surface is reminiscence to the use of this room in former days as part of the factory. The decorated colourful glasses on the iron cast shelves are original herb glasses which we found in the old part of the factory.

Photo: Pal Tamas

LA FABBRICA KITCHEN & BAR

LA FABBRICA

Budapest I design planning I 2018

The name, la Fabbrica means factory, pizza manufactory in Italian that refer to the speciality of the restaurant where they can make you the full range of pizzas from over the world.

During the design process we considered the historical characteristics and aptness of the building. We created the main hall transforming the former way of the horse-drawn carriages. We integrated its original elements, the ceiling with the stuccos and the 150 years old mosaic floor into the design concept.  From the main hall there is an access to the restaurant with the open-air kitchen, next to it there is the bar and the winter terrace attached to it.

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