Kingston Lafferty Design has transformed the empty shell of an existing compact retail unit in Dublin into Cinnamon Restaurant, a pastel paradise perfectly balancing sophisticated design with the functional realities of everyday life.

With its mezzanine kitchen and a bar, this hospitality venue stands as a playful celebration of colour, shape, and texture, employed to orchestrate a sensory experience that unfolds as guests move through the space.

There is a dream-like quality to the Cinnamon Restaurant by Dublin based studio, Kingston Lafferty Design, who aimed to “create a light-hearted and child-like space with an element of escapism”. Bespoke light fixtures become oversized lollipops glowing in the room, while a wall of circular mirrors captures the light before reflecting it onto adjacent high-gloss surfaces – customers sitting beside them encouraged to watch as they shimmer before them.

Movement throughout Cinnamon Restaurant in Dublin is guided by deep maroon floors which are occasionally sliced open with dusty blue circular tiles. This pastiche of colour becomes the runway that leads guests into each different microenvironment existing alongside one another.