![Vietnamese Restaurant / Phamily Kitchen - Table, Chair](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/54dc/1fc0/e58e/ce82/6e00/00cf/large_jpg/PK-2880-Interior-Looking-In-copy.jpg?1423712173)
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Architects: Phamily Kitchen
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Photographs:Daniel Aulsebrook
![Vietnamese Restaurant / Phamily Kitchen - Door, Brick, Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/54dc/1f79/e58e/ce12/0700/0088/medium_jpg/PK-2880-Front-Vert-Pano-copy.jpg?1423712095)
Text description provided by the architects. Like the first wave of a summer's day at the beach, Phamily Kitchen refreshes its gritty, urban setting.
A contemporary Vietnamese restaurant nestled within a modest Victorian era shopfront on Smith St, Collingwood, Phamily Kitchen's interior recalls traditional Vietnamese food vendors' use of colour to define, through minimal intervention, a new setting within an existing raw shell.
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A tidal wave of vivid blue saturates floor, walls, chairs, tables, utensils and any other paraphernalia left in its wake to reveal a finely crafted insertion into the original, handmade fabric of the building.
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The dualism of new and old can be read through adherence to this tidal datum: remnant above the waterline existing brick lintels and other detritus of change and modification over time are left bare in contrast to the new setting.
![Vietnamese Restaurant / Phamily Kitchen - Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/54dc/1f73/e58e/ce82/6e00/00cd/medium_jpg/PK-2880-Front-Close-Vert-Pano-copy.jpg?1423712089)
Bold use of colour at the lower level has been skilfully offset by a raw, matt pink ceiling kept free of services whilst exposed T5 fluorescent lighting has been integrated into the wall panelling to bathe the space in an otherworldly light.
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