{"id":777953,"date":"2026-05-06T19:34:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/777953\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T19:34:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:34:28","slug":"bar-extra-forms-stylish-social-centrepiece-for-montreal-design-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/777953\/","title":{"rendered":"Bar Extra forms stylish social centrepiece for Montreal Design week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Culinary studio Menu Extra and local interior design studio Atelier Z\u00e9bulon Perron<\/a> have created a temporary bar outfitted with a custom chandelier for festival-goers at Montreal Design Week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A collaboration between Menu Extra<\/a>, which puts on dinners in famous architectural locations, and local designers, Bar Extra was created in a storefront in Montreal’s trendy Mile End neighbourhood.<\/p>\n

“For Montreal’s first design week, we set out to transform our ghost kitchen into a rendez-vous for the creative community,” Menu Extra creative director Samuel de La Courtemanche told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“The idea was to create a space where people could gather organically. A place to linger over a drink, exchange ideas, unwind, and connect.”<\/p>\n

\"BarBar Extra was a social hub during Montreal Design Week. Top photo by Alex Lesage<\/p>\n

Atelier Z\u00e9bulon Perron<\/a> brought a colourful, high-contrast treatment to the space, which featured garage-style windows facing the street where a small front room was separated by curtains from the back-of-house functions.<\/p>\n

The walls were painted a dark teal, while the carpets were purple. Mirrors on each side of the space were embossed with wordmarks and menu items, with graphic design by Martha<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the centre of the space was a circular wooden bar where drinks were made. Above the bar was a massive chandelier that was created by the studio and local lighting design studio Lambert & Fils<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"SocialThe walls were painted a deep teal while the carpets were purple<\/p>\n

The light was designed to be futuristic with mirrors, recycled from vintage mirrored cabinets, facing outwards and bands of lights running vertically down toward the bar.<\/p>\n

This celestial chandelier was supported by a massive steel structure installed by Modulor<\/a>. It sat within the walls and ceiling, foregrounding the ephemerality of the installation and Montreal’s industrial grit.<\/p>\n

Cleverly, the crossbeams closer to the ground were used to support small ledges for drinks and food.<\/p>\n

\"BarThe bar was open during the design week<\/p>\n

Z\u00e9bulon Perron, founder of his eponymous studio, told Dezeen the space was meant to act as a “UFO” landing on the strip for just a few days.<\/p>\n

To imbue the space with an otherworldly sense, the chandelier lights flashed, and smoke machines ran during the event.<\/p>\n

“I wanted the installation to have a presence like it was alive,” added Perron.<\/p>\n

\"MenuIt was built in the test kitchen of the design-oriented food series Menu Extra<\/p>\n

A banquette was installed under the garage-style window, which was left open for most of the event. Tables with white tablecloths sat in front of the banquette, with metal seating.<\/p>\n

For the food, developed by Menu Extra executive chef Francis Blais, small bites were served on anodised aluminium trays designed by local designer Jacob Thompson Boyd<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The custom trays were a take on the classic lunch tray, with a futuristic, streamlined twist.<\/p>\n

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“We developed a visual language that draws from Montr\u00e9al institutions of the 1980s, layered with a retro-futuristic edge,” said De La Courtemanche.<\/p>\n

“The result is a space that feels both grounded and slightly out of time, with a bold chromatic palette enveloping the space and servers in white jackets and black ties balancing martinis on silver trays.”<\/p>\n

\"BarIt occupied a storefront with a garage-style window in Montreal’s Mile End neighbourhood<\/p>\n

The reuse elements track with other key events during the inaugural Montreal Design Week, including an exhibition that featured furniture made from the recycled roof of the Montreal Olympic Stadium<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Temporary exhibitions revolving around hospitality have become popular at recent design weeks.<\/p>\n

Last year, we took a look at different food-and-drink-oriented exhibitions during New York’s design week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The photography is by Aidan Matthews unless otherwise stated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bar Extra ran from 1 to 3 May during Montreal Design Week. For more exhibitions and activations in architecture and design visit Dezeen Events Guide.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Culinary studio Menu Extra and local interior design studio Atelier Z\u00e9bulon Perron have created a temporary bar outfitted…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":777954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,318649,2147,1033,171,990,33464,318650,154136,92915,94270,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-777953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-atelier-zu00e9bulon-perron","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-food","15":"tag-montreal","16":"tag-montreal-design-week","17":"tag-quu00e9bec","18":"tag-sectionall","19":"tag-sectiondesign","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116529310912570750","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}