Restaurant Black Pepper | GREGOIRE MAISONDIEU

DESCRIPTION

Black Pepper is a restaurant located in the city of Meknes (Morocco).

The astonishing Moroccan sunlight, filters through a dense network of louvers

revealing the double height space and its materials.

A mezzanine space, part of the public area, overhangs the main space, and announces the kitchen, behind a set of portholes.

Downstairs, bar and show kitchen are open on the space.

Raw materials such as burned wood, brick, concrete, are the components of the envelope of the place.

Leather, wood (cedar from a local forest), marble (black marble with white veins from a local quarry), are the components of the finishes of the furniture, bringing precision and refinement to the project.

Green plants in huge terra cotta jars punctuate the space, bringing sweetness and freshness to it.

MATERIALS

Floor : Taza stone (Morocco), prefab concrete blades

Walls : burnt wood, brick, stressed brick

Ceiling: molded fibrous plaster

Counters, stations, welcome desk : black marble from Khénifra (Morocco)

Tables : cedar from the Azrou forest (Morocco)

Staircase : rough concrete

Jars: terra cotta from Oulja (Morocco)