The Hillstone
Restaurant Group is a successful, family-run business specializing in high-end
restaurants including Houston’s, Bandera, Café R+D and others across the
country. For their first restaurant in
Beverly Hills, they chose a location in an existing 1940’s era structure on a centrally
located, pedestrian-oriented street.
Assembledge+ in collaboration with the Hillstone Design Team and
interior designer Brad Dunning combined their talents to provide a refined,
modern dining environment commensurate with both Hillstone’s reputation and the
demands of the surrounding clientele.
The design of the
street façade presents an understated composition of an elegantly scaled
exterior canopy, a custom designed steel window system and brick planter boxes
to create a graceful experience for both the pedestrian and the dining patron. The custom black steel framed window system
provides a secondary level of articulation to further address the pedestrian
scale of the façade.
The interior of the
restaurant is defined by reclaimed wood ceiling beams along with a palette of rich,
dark materials including walnut and cherry casework and chocolate stained wood
block flooring all accented by the natural light filtering through the front
façade.