Tacofino restaurant by Omer Arbel

This project by Omer Arbel may have been done two years ago, but it caught my eye in Phaidon’s new book ROOM, out in October. Room presents 100 interior design projects from around the world chosen by 10 widely respected interior designers, critics and curators.

This restaurant, called Tacofino, in Vancouver, features a stunning tangled chandelier made of stiff copper tubing and glass spheres. The spheres rather cleverly feature white cavities for small plants and succulents. Each sphere houses two to three lighting elements and one or two planters with space for earth. It was made by intermittently heating and cooling blown glass by Arbel’s lighting design company Bocci.

Elsewhere in the restaurant, reclaimed wood slabs serve as tables and benches and white steel tubes make up the furniture’s legs to contrast with the raw concrete floor.