George Livissianis’s restaurant designs

Architect George Livissianis at The Apollo.

Details at Darlinghurst pop-up Café Paci.

Livissianis keeps decorative detail to a minimum. “It could come down to the way that you detail something that might be a little bit atypical,” he says, “or it might be an unexpected highlight somewhere like that very fine neon-pink paint line on top of the column at The Apollo, and in the stitched detail of the sofa.”

The dusty hues 
at The Apollo, Livissianis tells us, were inspired by the crags and cliffs of the Greek islands.

At the entrance of Café Paci, Livissianis created interest with a cluster of white paper lanterns.

The dining room at Café Paci, and everything in it, is painted the same shade of Taubmans Iron Age grey.

The cliché-free approach to modern Japanese lines at Cho Cho San.

The exterior of Cho Cho San, Sydney.

The washed-out white-painted brick, birch ply and pale concrete tones at Cho Cho San.

A sneak-preview of Livissianis’s plans for the new Potts Point incarnation of Billy Kwong.