1970s BRASS & STAINLESS STEEL MIRROR, After Maria.
CALLIPYGE TOILET, Trone.
POMPEI MULTI CREMA TUMBLED, Perini.
GREEN APPLE, Signorino.
CALACUTTA MONET, Signorino.
PIETRO CHIESA FONTANA WALL SCONCES, Newel.
HK19 NICKLE PLATED BRASS WALL LIGHT, Dunlin.
SIMPLICISSIUM
MURANO GLASS LAMP, 1st Dibs.
FRINGES OTTOMAN, Property Furniture.
AIKO TEZUKA UNRAVELED FABRIC RUG, Custom.
VELVET NAVY UPHOLSTERY FABRIC, Lee Jofa.
STAINLESS STEEL, All Trade Aluminium. ALMOND ALPLLIGNUM, Elton Group Veneers.
THE
THE DINING ROOM | SEATING
MURANO GLASS CHANDLIER, 1stDibs.
TRIPTYCH DINE, Curiousa.
ROMANTIC VELVET, CONTEMPORARY ARMCHAIR, 1stDibs.
AFRO POSTMODERN SOFA, 1st Dibs
OVERTON DINING TABLE, Custom.
CIRCLE DINING CHAIR, Overgaard & Dyrman.
BLOOMING WOODEN TILES, Flooma.
THE DINING ROOM | LOUNGE
MURANO BLOWN GLASS PENDANT, 1stDibs.
VENETIAN MURANO GLASS MIRROR, Fratellitosi.
OKU OVAL WINERED DINING TABLE, Federica Biasi.
LEATHER WRAP CHAIR, Arata isozaki.
TROTEM CONSOLE, Jallu.
AT THE EDGE OF LOVE, Zuleya.
THE
THE VERANDA | OUTDOOR DINING
VINTAGE LIGHTCOPPER BLUE, Ross & Bicker.
VINTAGE LIGHTDENIM, Ross & Bicker.
RIVERIA OUTDOOR DINNER TABLE, 1st Dibs.
RIVERIA OUTDOOR DINNER TABLE, 1st Dibs.
AIRE OUTDOOR DINING CHAIR, Form Life.
ST KILDA OCTAGON PERIOD MOSAIC, The Blue Space.
MATERIALITY SELECTIONS
Project Artefect Materials
Stainless Steel
Antique Mirror
Glass Custom Upholstry
Coloured
Verede Onyx
SELECTIONS
Coloured Glass
Navy Gloss Leather
Breche de Vendome Marble
Victorian Floor Tiles
Elton Timber Veneers
FURNITURE & FIXTURES
UNKNOWN | The ThinkerLate 19th century
UNKNOWN | Mid 20th Century Vintage Boho Original Oil Portrait
GOLDHAMMER |Adore, Cherish and Love You - Abstract Brown Tone Graffiti Mixed Media Painting
PETTIBONE | Andy Warhol, “Double Elvis", 1963
ELIZABETH PEYTON | John Kennedy Jr. Meets Queen Elizabeth II
| tiple Personalities
DIANGO HERNANDEZ Premonicion, 2021
RUDOLPH PEN | A Charming 1940s Watercolor of Mexico w/ Cathedral and Rooftops.
ARTWORK SELECTIONS
Project Artefect Gallery
RICHARD
AMBER
GEORGE CONDO
MANUEL SANTELIC | Charles James. From the Fashion series 2025
JOHN RICHARD | Colour Splash IV
SOPHIE DUMONT Geometric Balance, 2024.
UNKNOWN | English School 19th Century Watercolour - Lady in a Blue Dress
TOMMASO LAURENTI | Triumph of Christianity, from the Raphael Rooms.
THOMAS BOSSARD | Méditation 2, 2024
JAMIE HARRIS | Dimpled Mirrored Blocks, 2014
DESIGN STATEMENT
Artefact is an exclusive fine-dining restaurant and art gallery that embodies a refined collision of contrasting aesthetics through the exploration of beauty in the unexpected. The project explores a deliberate collision of eras, ideologies, and aesthetics; a refined marriage of the classic and the contemporary, the raw and the polished, the ornate and the minimal.
Paying homage to the 19th Century sandstone terrace where the restaurant resides, the project tells a story of cultural layering and aesthetic tension, embodying how restoration can go beyond preservation to become a poetic reinterpretation of the beauty of the past.
As client Massimo Bottura once said “In the end it’s never just about food, it’s about the concept of the food that makes it into something far more interesting” - likewise, shown through the interior of Artefact.
Booth Seating
Banquette Dining Outdoor Seating
Commercial Kitchen
Restrooms
Outdoor Seating
The Reserve
The Hideaway
The Dining Room
THE BRIEF
Design an exclusive fine-dining restaurant and art gallery that embodies a refined collision of contrasting aesthetics; classical and brutalist, Eastern and Western, opulent and restrained, creating a multi-sensory environment where guests dine among Massimo Bottura’s curated artwork collection a space in itself which tells a story of cultural layering and aesthetic tension.
THE CLIENT
Massimo Bottura is a renowned Italian chef and restaurateur, best known for his three-Michelinstarred restaurant, Osteria Francescana. He is also the founder of the non-profit organization, Food for Soul, which aims to combat food waste and promote social inclusion through community kitchens.He is known for blurring the lines between food and art, blending culinary artistry with modern art, turning food into a form of creative expression.
THE SITE:
107-109 O’Connell St, North Adelaide, SA. The two-level sandstone terrace, originally constructed as a bank chamber in the 1880s, captures the grandeur of the era and in itself tells a story through its architecture. The interior of the site boasts ornate, high ceilings, grand period fixtures and fittings, and a wrap around balcony on the rear end of the building, enabling an additional outdoor dining experience.
The premises facilitates this project, zoned CMS / City Main Street. As a mixed use zone, it provides nonresidential activities, supported by medium to highdensity residential development.
Driven by a design philosophy rooted in the art of juxtaposition, Catherine Khater is an emerging interior designer drawing meaning from contrast and imperfection, into a harmonious form of storytelling and conceptual ideology. The interplay between past and present is central to her design process. Perhaps kindled by her childhood dream of going to Paris and admiration for the culture, or the skill of fabricating spaces with old and new furniture extended to her by her mother; Catherine’s work juxtaposes the nostalgia of the past with contemporary insight. Catherine sees design as a pursuit of beauty, not necessarily something that is perfect but something that points in the direction of something which is. Her work is an ongoing dialogue between what was and what could be, always seeking harmony in the art of tension and juxtaposition, and striving to see the beauty in the little things, especially in a world where it is slowly being overlooked in the constant pursuit for the new, the loud, and the flawless.
THE DESIGNER - CATHERINE KHATER
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
All designs, visuals and renders produced for Artefact have been created by, and are the property of, Catherine Khater.
