project team: Bogdan Ciocodeica, Maria Chiscan
photo: Vlad Patru
location: Bucharest / 2025
Belgrad 2 is a restaurant project that aims to expand the culinary experience beyond the dishes it serves. The space was designed to evoke a moment in time, it’s intended as the split second captured at the right instant that stays with you. Stepping into this dining room is meant to feel like walking into a cinematic frame where dense theatre curtains meets the light world of Olafur Eliasson.
Deep, enveloping greens saturate the space, pulling the audience into an atmosphere that is both intimate and theatrical for an immersive experience. The dining layout is precise—white tablecloths draped with geometric certainty—while the otherworldly silver spheres hover overhead like suspended moons, dictating the room’s gravitational pull.
The walls assume an almost hypnotic role. Pulsing, concentric light projections—warm cores of molten red and orange dissolving into yellow halos—give the sense of an eclipse mid-transition. These glowing orbs are not decoration so much as they are meant to be a sort of emotional provocateurs, altering the perception of distance, temperature, and perhaps even time.
Seating is rendered in green velvet also, the curve of each chair echoing the softness of the light forms, in stark counterpoint to the strict geometry of the tables. The deep-pile carpeting underfoot grounds the scheme, muting footsteps and amplifying the cocoon effect.
Apart from its primary function, that of hosting a restaurant, the space is more than anything else an atmospheric experiment. A place where spatial drama is fused with psychological subtlety, leaving guests suspended somewhere between a gallery installation and a theatre backstage. Here, every element—be it velvet, light, or lunar orb—is less a furnishing and more a player in an ongoing performance.