<p>The South African restaurant “avva” is located in a historic Art Nouveau building in Munich’s Glockenbach quarter. Its dining areas feature the typical turn-of-the-century floor plan of traditional Bavarian restaurants. Along with the cuisine of South Africa, the new restaurateur has brought her own stories and the stories from her country, which connect with the location and form the conceptual basis for the interior design. South Africa’s emancipation from the Apartheid regime as well as women’s emancipation are told by means of creative concepts, which in no way serve as mere décor. Each of the many various historical quotations can be read in this context, even when they initially seem playful. A central element in this respect is found on the restaurant’s front wall. Windowless and in the same red as the other walls, a sprayed yellow sun by the artist Daniel Man creates focal point, which shines like a subtle source of light in its delicate transition from red to yellow. Built into the same wall surface are small boxes that display fragments from history. In the foyer one also finds the motif of the South African sun: a “chandelier-sphere” designed by Jan Reuter, made of fragments of found plastic in red, orange and yellow plays with such South African themes as upcycling, our interaction with oil, energy, and connects all of these with the Art Nouveau element of the chandelier.</p>

<p>The dining space is broken up horizontally through partitions of carefully custom-made wine shelves that divide the restaurant into an informal foyer, a chef’s table area and the dinning room itself. A vertical break is achieved through the continuous grey base, a rust-red wall colour and a black accent of the partially suspended ceiling. Fixed wooden louvers on the windows, which integrate with the colour scheme, block as little light as possible. The restaurant is furnished with tables made of unfinished maple and “Neu” chairs with gray seats from Hay. These are individually accented by the same chair in a red colour tone.</p>
