This new interior for Octium in Kuwait is a beautiful example of a decorative modernism that also succeeds in evoking the memory of Tiffany’s in the breakfast-based movie from back in the day; all without stepping over the line into comical kitsch.
The interior design is the baby of no less a creative mind than Jaime Hayon, whose fantastic and almost clownish projects have been undermining the classical understanding of design for years now. In this case, he had a true stroke of genius: In the positive sense, and without shying kitsch or opulent colors and shapes, he has created a fairy-tale-like location where the only thing that is meant seriously is possibly the price-tag on the wares.
