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T+L Design Awards 2013
Gordon Welters - laif - Redux
Best Restaurant
Pauly-Saal, Berlin
Designed by Stephan Landwehr and Boris Radczun
The glamour of Weimar Republic–era Berlin is reinterpreted in the most modern of ways at Pauly-Saal. Many of the traditional German restaurant’s design details, including ceramic tiles and Murano chandeliers, were custom-made; dark-green upholstered chairs add a solemnity to the bright room. But it is the restaurant’s location, too, that tells a story: it is set in what was once the gymnasium of the Jewish Girls’ School, closed by the Nazis in 1942. The building is now a center for the revival of Jewish culture in Berlin, and also houses a number of art galleries and a delicatessen. 11-13 Auguststrasse; paulysaal.com. $$$$