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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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