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MATERIAL FOCUS: AHI RESTAURANT

In your hospitality work, you have often tried to maintain a fairly minimal palette. How do you ensure there is vibrancy and tension within that?

I tend to work with a limited colour palette, with variety in the material expression. So, at Ahi, there is a predominance of timber

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