World's Best Design Bars + Restaurants

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Synopsis
Episodes

Bars are like the beginning of something, of an encounter: a get-together with friends, with lovers. A moment’s respite after a hard day’s work, a place removed from the daily stress.

This series takes us on a journey around the world to more than 20 extraordinary bars and restaurants where architecture, design and hospitality come together. We meet the visionary architects and designers behind these remarkable spaces and
discover the ideas that transform restaurants and bars into destinations in their own right. Across cities and cultures, the series explores the many faces of hospitality – and the creative spaces that have become icons of contemporary urban life.

Episode 1 WORLDS BEST BARS
In Oslo, the SUMMIT BAR was designed by the world-renowned architectural firm Søhetta. It isn’t large; just like in a cinema, you descend a flight of steps from above towards the screen. The screen is...

From Oslo to Tokyo

Art / Music / Culture Travel / People & Places
Main Episode 2 BARS
In Singapore, the lobby of a skyscraper has been transformed into a modern Art Deco bar. A vast space exuding sophistication and opulence. The Great Gatsby could be set here. In Paris, the world...

From Singapore to Paris

Art / Music / Culture Travel / People & Places
Main EP.3
In New York, on Fifth Avenue and opposite the Trump Tower, the Rome-based Fuksas studio has fitted out a flagship store featuring a staircase and a hidden restaurant with a bar. In Madrid, the...

From New York City to Madrid

Art / Music / Culture Travel / People & Places
Episode 4 BARS
In Nairobi, a hotelier has designed a restaurant and bar to go with it. And he’s called it the Hero Bar. A bar with comic-book heroes on the walls – larger than life, colourful, garish. In Nuremberg...

From Nairobi to Munich

Art / Music / Culture Travel / People & Places
Main Episode 5
Right next to Friedrichstraße station in Berlin, and hidden behind a steel door at the end of a corridor with walls metres thick, lies the “Tausend Bar”. Inside, you’re greeted by a ‘Space Odyssey’...

From Bangkok to Vienna

Art / Music / Culture Travel / People & Places
Directed by
Michael Trabitzsch
Producer
Prounen Film / BR, ARTE
Country
Germany
Languages
English, German
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