On the border: Blending tradition with the street

Many of Chimichanga’s other locations have a more sombre, traditional Tex-Mex feel, but interior design firm Brown Studio wanted something different.

‘We used woods and ceramics, but also a lot of glass and reflective surfaces with geometric patterns,’ Laura Kiely, interior designer at Brown Studio, tells LS:N Global. ‘Those futuristic-looking patterns sat nicely beside the more rustic-looking wood.’

A streamlined interpretation of Mexican visual culture is evident throughout the restaurant, for example in a traditional pattern that was simplified for the tiling near the entrance. The red and green motif identifies the restaurant as Mexican ‘without it being a themed restaurant,’ says Kiely. ‘There are no sombreros or ponchos.’

This is a great example of the optimistic energy we noticed in our Az-Tech design direction.