A dark, dated restaurant reborn as a light-filled Parisian brunch salon.
Café Atelier occupies roughly 1,800 square feet in Vaughan. Studio Kimi stripped out the drop ceilings and heavy wood of the former space and rebuilt the room around light — ivory walls, warm oak, and a long sage-green velvet banquette that wraps the room.
Calacatta marble bistro tables on slim brass pedestals, soft bouclé chairs, and opal-glass globe pendants set a feminine, European tone. Arched cane-webbing screens divide the small footprint into intimate corners without closing it off.
The custom millwork — the coffee bar, the banquettes, the signage wall — was designed as one calm, considered whole, so a compact café reads generous, polished, and unmistakably its own.
Studio Kimi led Café Atelier as a design-build project — concept, custom millwork, lighting, and construction under one roof — a hospitality fit-out delivered as a single, finished room.
The dark, dated restaurant before the rebuild.
“We are beyond happy with the interior design of our café… the team carefully listened to our vision and brought it to life with so much attention to detail. Our customers often ask us who did the design… Highly recommended!”
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