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With a growing foodie culture in the 80’s, the restaurants and commercial spaces were perfect chance for designers to express, and set the decor trends which took interior design to new heights.

With painting different features in eye-catching colors and adding pattern and geometric forms to other surfaces,cloud murals or an abstract designs,pedestals for displaying vases and other decor,wall sconces,cloth banners suspended from the ceiling,seating with sleek silhouettes,curtains surrounding the dining table…all this and other fun trends together with interesting color combinations like peach and blue,they created ambient that is dreamy and surreal.

Enjoy in some of the restaurant design and decor trends from the Decade of Decadence.

Below: Mama Mia! Pasta in Chicago, Illinois [Image from Restaurant Design: Ninety-Five Spaces That Work, 1987]

Doubles in New York, New York [Photo by Jaime Ardiles-Arce, from Dining by Design: Interior Design’s Handbook of Dining and Restaurant Facilities, 1984]

City Spirit Cafe in Denver, Colorado [Photo by David Naylor, from Restaurant Design: Ninety-Five Spaces That Work, 1987]

Max Au Triangle, Beverly Hills, California [ From Restaurant Design: Ninety-Five Spaces That Work, 1987]

Cadillac Grille, Jackson, Wyoming [ From Restaurant Design: Ninety-Five Spaces That Work, 1987]

Cafe Seiyoken, New York, New York [ From Restaurant Design: Ninety-Five Spaces That Work, 1987]

American Harvest Restaurant, New York, New York [ From Restaurant Design: Ninety-Five Spaces That Work, 1987]

Hemenway’s, Providence, Rhode Island [ From Restaurant Design: Ninety-Five Spaces That Work, 1987]

Key West, Boston, Massachusetts [ From Restaurant Design: Ninety-Five Spaces That Work, 1987]

Touch, Los Angeles, California [ From Restaurant Design: Ninety-Five Spaces That Work, 1987]

Chez Antoine, Montreal, Canada [ From Restaurant Design: Ninety-Five Spaces That Work, 1987]

Mc Donald’s, Larchmont, New Jersey [ From Restaurant Design: Ninety-Five Spaces That Work, 1987]

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