The Export and Investment Promotion Corporation of Ecuador was moving its offices to new premises. And request us to design the new interiors.

The idea was to create a cafeteria that stand out the main objective of the corporation, which is to provide support to exports of quality products from Ecuador and work to attract foreign investment to the country.

Keeping in mind that the gold era for ecuadorian exports was in the early 1900. We decided to recreated an early 1900 cafeteria.

We look in history books, research and found out that during that period, there was a big influence from french customs. Ecuadorians followed french trends in their clothing, furniture and buildings.

We started designing keeping that in mind.

To build the cabinets doors, we followed the french door designs, used in early 1900.

The color palette was choose, after a detailed search in historic files to make sure those were the colors used in those early years.

To add more vivid recreation we painted the scenery of a nearby river. Go give some kind of a refreshing feeling to the design.

We recreated the french furniture used at cafeterias and ice cream parlors in the beginning of the 20th century.

The use of pictures and murals place the visitors in time.

We also pay special attention to the entrance doors, which were built and painted keeping in mind the materials and colors used in that time.