The concept of Israeli street food restaurant Chick Chack is inspired by Israeli street food establishments and conveys the vibe of Tel Aviv's busy streets.
Israel's visual aesthetic is beautifully contradictory and chaotic. It emerged spontaneously and no one controlled its shaping. That's why in Tel Aviv you can feel the layering of different cultural codes: rich history, endlessly scorching sun, graffiti, and modern trendy creative vibe.
In this project, we decided to experiment and create a space that seems to have formed itself out of incompatible things and styles. And we used this visual chaos to its maximum.
The whole space of the restaurant appears as if it were not an interior at all, but a fragment of the streets of Jaffa, through which you wind your way in search of your destination. At the entrance, the visitor is greeted with a 300-year-old olive tree sprouting through the paving stones. And on the sides of this chaotically created street we have placed several volumes.
The central element of the interior is the open kitchen, around which the planting is organised. It is a simmering heart of the space. This planning solution allowed us to put the main emphasis on cooking and smells, which refer to traditional Israeli eateries.
We created a bright accent in the interior thanks to an unusual art object - a lime-coloured cube of construction foam and a luminous polycarbonate cube of the closed kitchen.
The peculiarity of the street format lies in the possibility to use unusual tools and technologies. Many of the restaurant's furniture items look as if they were made from improvised materials used on a construction site: for example, the bar counter made of corrugated board, the working area made of polycarbonate, and the brightly coloured construction foam on the walls of the bathroom.
Another unusual element in the interior is a bench suspended in the air, made in the form of a solid log of dried wood. We decided to refuse artificially aged elements and pseudo-materials. Most of the furniture and decor items were picked up at flea markets. Everything is real!
At the same time, old things are mixed here with very modern, new, and aesthetically pleasing ones, like table tops with real flowers cast in epoxy resin.
Chick Chack is designed as a place where every visitor can move from their usual urban environment into the exciting atmosphere of Tel Aviv and feel like a welcomed guest.
