Bizot Cafe in Beer Sheva, designed by Rachel Buzaglo, Rachel Studio (Photo: Sali Patel)
The locomotive complex, the ancient Turkish train station in Beer Sheva, has become in recent years a cultural, entertainment and leisure complex that attracts crowds. The historic site includes listed buildings, which usually limits the design possibilities of the businesses operating there. Rachel Buzaglo, the designer of Bizot, the café and deli that has been operating in the complex for nearly a year, took this as a design challenge, and even decided to take it one step further: bring Paris to Beersheba.
"I received a space that is a historic building designated for preservation, a challenge in itself," says Buzaglo, owner of Studio Rachel in Beer Sheva. "I was only allowed to change the floor, where part of the original Arab flooring was preserved. The concept chosen was to bring Paris to Be'er Sheva, with all the details, textures and authentic accessories of the City of Lights, while maintaining the authenticity and uniqueness of the place."
Bizot Cafe in Beer Sheva, designed by Rachel Buzaglo, Rachel Studio (Photo: Sali Patel)
Bizot Cafe in Beer Sheva, designed by Rachel Buzaglo, Rachel Studio (Photo: Sali Patel)
Bizot Cafe in Beer Sheva, designed by Rachel Buzaglo, Rachel Studio (Photo: Sali Patel)
The café and deli cover an area of about 70 square meters in a closed building with many windows, in addition to almost double the space in the outdoor courtyard that connects to the entire locomotive complex. "The internal building was divided into five spaces, four of which are small rooms connected to each other through a common passageway, and a fifth, more spacious space, which serves as a display for cakes and pastries, ordering and serving, coffee and pastry, and general sale. I chose to paint the informal seating spaces one green and the other pink, which gives them a sense of home. Alongside them, I combined nine types of wallpaper in the collage I created on the relatively high walls of the place. The rest of the walls are painted in shades of pink, touches of red, orange and green. Everything was chosen like a visit to Paris on a magical morning. In addition, on the outside I added a lot of vegetation, which blends in with the entire locomotive complex."
The design guideline chosen for the furniture is the coquette style. This style actually focuses on creating a sense of comfort, calmness and isolation within the home space. It combines comfortable and practical furniture, combined with soft and pleasant colors, pleasant to the touch, refreshing textiles and matching lighting that creates an atmosphere of comfort and warmth.
In this choice, the goal was to create a home space that gives a sense of protection to its guests and allows them to escape the external hustle and bustle and noise, to a quiet, relaxed and calm place. For this purpose, the furniture chosen includes, among other things, round tables and old-looking chairs combined with quiet and antique colors. To complete the look, the entire floor was meticulously designed with a meticulous combination of original ancient Arabic-style tiles that were in the building, alongside natural terracotta tiles in shades of brown and pink. In addition, all the shelves and display areas were designed with galvanized raw material (processed metal) and painted with a transparent lasha, to preserve their nature.
Bizot Cafe in Beer Sheva, designed by Rachel Buzaglo, Rachel Studio (Photo: Sali Patel)
Bizot Cafe in Beer Sheva, designed by Rachel Buzaglo, Rachel Studio (Photo: Sali Patel)
Bizot Cafe in Beer Sheva, designed by Rachel Buzaglo, Rachel Studio (Photo: Sali Patel)
Inside the café, the various accessories, as well as the furniture itself, have also been carefully selected, so that a passion for detail and aesthetics is felt in every corner. Among the unique design elements of the place, the lighting fixtures created from the gentle welding of large metal spoons stand out. Also prominent are plumbing pipes that have been converted into display shelves. According to Buzaglo, the purpose of this bold choice stemmed from a desire and need to also address the operating room operating there, which includes a large kitchen for the use of the head pastry chef. Since its opening, the place has become one of the most sought-after patisserie in the area, which is actually run as a small production plant.
"In order to integrate this area with the rest of the place, I chose to use elements that give an industrial look, with exposed metal pipes that were originally used for plumbing purposes, as decoration. It also allowed me to balance the soft, vintage look of the place with its industrial look."
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