2025
Jade Yorkville
Yorkville, Toronto
Category:
Restaurant
Duration:
8 weeks
Countertop:
Emerald Verde Alpi
This restaurant interior design is centered on contemporary elegance, featuring a refined palette of green quartz, marbleized finishes, and plush seating that together create a rich and immersive dining atmosphere.
The restaurant’s design is defined by sweeping expanses of blue-green quartzite surfaces that envelop floors, walls, and stairs, lending the space a cool, cohesive visual language with both opulence and tranquility. The tables are topped with deep green, marble-look quartz featuring prominent white veining, set against integrated plush banquette seating upholstered in a soft, pale velvet for comfort and luxury. Architectural wall panels with arched forms—backlit for a dramatic effect—add depth and rhythm along the main dining area, while golden accents are introduced through minimal yet striking brass fixtures, signage, and railings. The entryway is marked by a dramatic floral installation, and throughout, reflections from glossy finishes amplify natural and artificial light, heightening the sense of spaciousness and contemporary sophistication.
Details
Color Palette
The space is anchored in a base of serene green and aqua tones from the quartz walls and floors, accented by darker green quartz table surfaces and balanced with creamy beige and off-white from the upholstery. Subtle gold and brass metallic details add warmth and contrast, while the entry’s vibrant pink floral wall signals a lively, inviting transition.
Materials and Textures
Key materials include highly polished quartz for floors, walls, stairs, and table tops (with dramatic veining adding movement), soft vertically channeled velvet banquettes, and plush upholstered chairs. Metalwork in brushed brass is used for lighting, signage, and trim, while reflective glass elements and lush floral textures at the entry provide tactile and visual contrast to the more substantial hard surfaces.
Lighting
Lighting is layered and intentional, with arched wall niches and banquette bases outlined in soft, integrated LED strip lighting, creating a halo effect and warm ambient glow. Large brass disc pendant fixtures and sconces deliver focused, golden-hued light overhead and at key sight lines, while natural light is filtered in through tall windows dressed in sheer, neutral drapery. The overall effect is a luminous, inviting environment with carefully controlled highlights and reflections.