King Fu Restaurant

King Fu Restaurant is a luxury Asian fusion restaurant and lounge bar at ul. Jatki 2, occupying 300 square metres across two floors at the corner position on Bydgoszcz's Stary Rynek. The client was one of the city's most prominent restaurateurs, owner of the Baalbek Lebanese restaurant chain and the Kurkuma brand, a sophisticated operator who commissioned the studio after the success of a previous collaboration.

The entire design derives from a single generative concept: the legend of the golden Koi fish, which determines every material, colour, texture, and brand decision from the floor to the pendant lights.

The Koi legend reads spatially as a duality between gold and darkness. Natural oak parquet flooring, oak slatted wall panels running full-height, oak horizontal window blinds, Wishbone-style dining chairs, and the golden hammered interiors of the Tom Dixon Beat pendants constitute the golden Koi: warm, luminous, living.

Against this: black painted ceilings, black hexagonal wall tiles with an irregular textured gloss finish recalling fish scales, black leather upholstered banquettes, and the black lacquered exteriors of the pendant cluster represent the river depths. The tension between these two material families holds the 300 square metres together as a coherent composition.

The ground floor sushi bar is positioned as a performance theatre, its golden oak counter facing the street through the corner glass facade. The sushi preparation zone is fully open to the dining area, chefs visible from both interior and exterior.

A hand-drawn Koi fish wallpaper transforms a full wall into a fluid composition of swimming carp, translating the founding legend into graphic narrative.

The first floor dining room opens to 180-degree panoramic views of Stary Rynek through the curved glass corner facade.

Black hexagonal tiles with irregular textured gloss surfaces frame the window wall, their three-dimensional facets catching pendant light at varying angles to produce the intended fish-scale shimmer.

Tom Dixon Beat pendants in clusters and singles descend at calibrated heights from the black-painted ceiling plane, their hammered gold interiors creating warm amber pools across the dining tables below.

The upper floor atmosphere shifts between daytime and evening. During the day, warm golden light filters through the oak horizontal blinds. At night, the pendant cluster becomes the dominant light source, their gold interiors casting intimate amber pools across the dark tablecloths.

The pendant specification runs the full Tom Dixon Beat range: Beat Fat, Beat Tall, and Beat Wide variants are deployed in calculated combinations. The hammered gold interiors reflect warm light downward while the black lacquered exteriors disappear against the black ceiling, creating the illusion of floating amber lanterns.

The amber LED strip lighting beneath oak stair treads connects the two floors in the Koi gold language, providing a transition between the ground floor casual dining and the first floor lounge atmosphere.

A large-scale warrior mural, designed by the studio, commands the bar wall on the first floor. The wire mesh figure is backlit by a custom King Fu Fusion neon sign in red, creating a focal point that anchors the lounge identity.

The integrated branding system extends the Koi legend from architecture to every touchpoint: logo and tagline design, menu graphics, staff attire, and table setting coordination. The King Fu Fusion identity uses a red-and-white mark on black ground, with the King of Fusion tagline reinforcing the concept.

An outdoor terrace at ground level extends the dining programme to the street, facing the Stary Rynek square. Custom carpentry throughout was executed by FB Decor.

The restroom design carries the same material language in a compact format: dark marble and slate walls, an oak vanity counter with open shelving, matte black vessel basins, and fresh flowers as the single organic element against the mineral palette.