餐厅位于迪拜市中心新开的迪拜歌剧院，名为“肖恩·康诺利”。餐厅以中世纪和海洋风为设计元素，食物主打牛排和海鲜。

Located at the newly opened Dubai Opera in Downtown Dubai, Sean Connolly’s new brasserie, pointedly called “Sean Connolly at Dubai Opera”, serves steak and seafood in a venue with a mid-century aesthetic and an oceanic ambience.

        餐厅由悉尼的Alexander& Co工作室和Tribe studio联手打造，可同时容纳350人共同用餐，其中包括一个提供生蚝和其他贝类的Raw酒吧，一个主打烤炉烹饪Fire酒吧。这里还拥有一个露台，在哈利法塔下用餐，使之成为最理想的庆祝新年节日的餐厅之一。

Designed by Sydney-based studio Alexander & Co in partnership with Tribe Studio, the 350 person restaurant includes a Raw bar serving oysters and other shellfish, a Fire bar where you can enjoy a selection of pizzas from a wood fire oven as well as private dining and a chef’s table. There is also an outdoor terrace where patrons can dine under the gleaming monumentality of the Burj Khalifa, making it one of the most coveted dining settings to enjoy the New Year’s festivities.

        餐厅的设计从迪拜歌剧院和主厨对生蚝的热爱中获取灵感。主餐厅里，粉色和奶油色的皮革配备浅灰色的大理石色调，看起来就像是生蚝五脏六腑，而外围则有一系列深色的灰色、绿色和黑色的色调，让人想起生蚝壳风华的纹理。粘贴瓷砖的拱形天花板好似海上汹涌的波浪，加强了海洋主题的设计理念；手工制作的蓝色羊毛地毯，是Alexander & Co特别设计来模拟海洋，最终深化了主题思想。

Occupying a curvilinear space at the top of the Dubai Opera’s “bow”, a glass and steel building that resembles an Arabian sailing vessel, the restaurant’s design draws inspiration from the building’s maritime form as well as Chef Connolly’s passion for oysters. A palette of pink and cream leather and light grey marble in the main dining area elicits the oysters’ sensual interior while a range of darker greys, greens and black hues in the periphery, bring to mind the weathered texture of the shells. The oceanic theme is further enhanced by the tiled vaulted ceiling, which resembles both the rippling shape of the oyster husk and billowing sails, and the handmade woollen carpet dappled in blue that Alexander & Co designed especially to emulate the ocean waters.

        布艺则使用绿色、灰色、蓝色和白色的皮革面料传递着强烈的海洋气息，搭配中世纪天然的胡桃木家具和Serge Mouille的蜘蛛臂落地灯，使整个餐厅犹如一颗珍珠般璀璨耀眼。

The oceanic palette is perfectly complemented by the greens, greys, blues and whites of the leather and fabric upholstery of the mid-century furniture originals that the designers have eclectically chosen to furnish the restaurant. Along with natural walnut finishes and mid-century lamps of  such as Serge Mouille’s spider-arm floor lamp in white enamel, the restaurant is a pearl of modernist elegance.

        主厨肖恩·康诺利虽生在英国，成长在澳大利亚。但在主菜单呈现了不同风味的主菜，如慢炖新西兰羊肉和澳大利亚羊排等。澳大利亚艺术家特蕾西(Tracey Deep)和杰奎琳·芬克(Jacqui Fink)利用本地植物创作出三个悬挂的雕塑，栩栩如生。Fink用羊毛编织成超大号粗绳，悬挂在天花上，像海洋生物的触角一般，用抽象艺术契合餐厅的主题。

British born, Australia-based Chef Sean Connolly’s main menu has a distinct Antipodean flavour with entrées such as slow-cooked New Zealand lamb and Australian Saltbush organic lamb cutlets, which the designers have paid tribute to by incorporating artwork by two distinct Australian artists, Tracey Deep and Jacqui Fink. Deep, whose floral installations celebrate Australia’s native flora, created three hanging sculptures reflecting the beauty of the underwater world, while Fink, who pioneered extreme knitting with thick yarn and oversized needles, has made a grand piece out of Australia and New Zealand Merino Wool that hangs from the ceiling like the tentacles of a giant sea creature, encapsulating, in artistic abstraction, the restaurant’s thematic amalgamation.

Project: SEAN CONNOLLY AT DUBAI OPERA

Location: MOHAMED BIN RASHID BOULEVARD, DU,UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Design: ALEXANDER & CO

项目: 迪拜歌剧院肖恩·康诺利餐厅

地点: 迪拜

设计师: ALEXANDER & CO

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