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Article: Subtlety spices up palette. (News Analysis).
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- Design Week
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- February 6, 2003
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As fast-food brand Tiffinbites takes on Pret A Manger, Hannah Booth finds out what changes are afoot in the traditional heartland of Indian cuisine -- the curry house.
A FEW years back Indian restaurants shed their flocked wallpaper, Ganesh sculptures and sitar music in favour of heavily minimalist interiors. And after a year saturated with Bollywood excess, colour and kitsch may also have had their day. So what directions are curry house interiors heading now?
'People are bored of minimalism,' says Russell Stewart, director of Cubit Design, which created bright interiors for Newcastle restaurant The Spice Cube. 'They expect bold colours now.'
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