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Article: A step above: for the Mandarin Oriental, New York, down-to-earth Tony Chi designs a restaurant and bar in the sky.
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- Interior Design
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- April 1, 2004
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Commissioned to design a five-star restaurant and glamorous bar-lounge in a luxury hotel on one of the world's most coveted pieces of real estate, many architects would breathlessly throw a ton of gold and glitter around. Not Tony Chi. When conceptualizing Asiate restaurant and MObar at the Mandarin Oriental, New York, he turned his back on glitz--and his sights on Central Park, 35 stories below.
"It's a Monet outside those windows," Chi says of the Time Warner Center location. Indeed, it's virtually incomparable not only on the Manhattan dining scene but also in Chicago, Miami, Las Vegas, London, and Shanghai, where Tonychi and Associates has previously designed ...