Public Home brings a style of fine previous London to Paris

Parisians not must hop on the Eurostar for a style of London. Chef Calum Franklin, aka The Pie King, has introduced British delicacies throughout the Channel at Public Home, a brand new British pub and brasserie within the coronary heart of Paris.

Step inside Public Home by chef Calum Franklin

Generally known as the American Dream in its former life, the restaurant was beforehand a kitsch diner-slash-go-go bar housed within the unlikely setting of a conventional Haussmann constructing. After the restaurant shuttered, the constructing sat deserted for 2 years earlier than being purchased by hospitality consultants Le Bertrand Group, who remodeled it from an American Dream right into a British one with the assistance of designer Laura Gonzalez, who has reimagined the normal pub with a contact of French aptitude.

On the façade, Parisian signwriting studio Enseignes Brillo has set the scene with the gilded gold lettering of ‘Public Home’, whereas carpentry studio Design Bois upcycled the glass from the previous restaurant to craft the glass and wooden doorways that lead into the principle eating room. Inside, Gonzalez has stayed true to her signature mish-mash fashion whereas weaving in references to conventional British design; suppose a conflict of checked material cubicles, studded tartan bar stools and a striped navy and burgundy carpet, which brings to thoughts British college uniforms. Above all of it, Gonzalez has designed the up to date summary moulded ceiling, made up by Design Bois and painted in a shade of off-white by Atelier Roma so as to add a lightness to the room’s wealthy color palette.

A mirrored staircase, extra New York’s Studio54 than a conventional British pub, indicators after-dark frivolities within the underground speakeasy, Divine Home. Right here Gonzalez has ramped up the tartan and added a bespoke assortment of typical round pub tables in an applicable shade of British racing inexperienced. A collection of classic lamps might be discovered dotted all through the area, taken from the designer’s personal assortment of secondhand treasures, that are picked up on travels and positioned in storage, simply ready for the fitting venture.

If the underground bar was made for night soirées, then the first-floor restaurant is for summer time days. Gonzalez has taken design cues from Provence with vivid sunny shades, terracotta flooring, and Maison Gatti rattan chairs that nod to Parisian terraces. The identical pub tables seen within the subterranean speakeasy seem in salmon pink, and tartan has been swapped out for vibrant ceramics, most notably to border the lava stone bar. Set off the second-floor restaurant is an area dubbed ‘The Gaming Room’, which takes diners again to Britain with extra pub tables and extra tartan, and the soon-to-be-added of completion, a conventional pub dart board.

Public Home is situated at 21 rue Daunou, Paris