Restaurant Ikanos
BlazysGérard
Technical details:
Official project name: Restaurant Ikanos
Location: Old Montreal
Client: Constant Mentzas
Designers: Benoit Gérard and Alexandre Blazys
Project manager: Alexandre Blazys
Collaborators:
St-Jean et Fils,
Ébénisterie GDPro,
Serge Cantin Métal,
Italbec
Sector: Commercial
Furnishing budget:
$250,000 for a total budget of $700,000
About blazysgérard
Alexandre Blazys and Benoit Gérard combined their
talent and expertise in 2003 to found blazysgérard, a
Montreal design and architecture studio. Their mission
is to create balanced, functional environments at a
human scale, giving users a new emotional and artistic
appreciation of the spaces they occupy.
Alexandre Blazys holds a design certificate from
Central Saint Martins College, London. He has
extensive experience in visual presentation for a
number of furniture and design shops.
Benoit Gérard earned his degree in architecture
from the Université de Montréal. He has worked
in Montpellier, France and in Montreal at Dupuis
LeTourneux. He is a recipient of the Prix Alcan Arcop
(2000) and the Prix Habitat 67 (1999).
website: www.blazysgerard.com
Photographs: Jean Longpré
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