MANILA
THE NILE
THEATRE-RESTAURANT
MANOSA BROS.
CHED BERENGUER TOPACIO
ANSELMO DAY-AG
architects
interior designer
sculptural works
Tis not clear whether the name or the idea came first. Either way title and decor are suitably matched in the new Nile theatre-restaurant on Roxas Boulevard in Manila.
The designers have managed to convey elegance, comfort and space by a blend of split-level planning and wall-to-wall carpeting with simply carved timber panelling and sculp- tural borrowings from ancient Egypt.
Symbolically, a miniature sphinx graces the canopied entrance to the establishment, whose main facade is a wall of rough-hewn stone left un- decorated except for a band of etched hieroglyphics at roof level.
A marble-tiled lobby with rock
Far East BUILDER, May 1968.
ד נס חחתך
Restaurant interior show- ing carpeted split-level flooring and simply cary- ed timber panelling
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