Talkback

Year: 2025
Location: U-Venues, New Cairo
Scope: Interior design
Type: Hospitality
Client: Talkback

Design style

Retro-futurism

U-Venues, New Cairo

30°01′12″N 31°29′24″E

Completed 2025

Hospitality project

Brief

A 1960s-inspired cosmic diner at U-Venues, New Cairo, imagined as a spaceship that crash-landed in California: violet palms, light-blue couches and walls of iridescent ribbed glass. Featured by CairoScene in 2025.

Talkback — Light-blue couch beneath violet palms

Talkback — Violet palm and arched iridescent panel above the couches

The idea

A spaceship, crash-landed in 1960s California.

Creative director Roaa Lofty framed the restaurant as a past vision of the future. Elliptical windows, elongated arches in ribbed translucent glass and a wall clad in glossy purple tubes set the scene. Violet palms, an undulating light-blue couch and tubular metal chairs fill it. “The goal was to transport guests into a dreamscape that feels both nostalgic and futuristic,” says Mahmoud Abbas.

Talkback — Dining room with elliptical windows and glass pendants

Photography: Nour El Refai

Talkback — Wall clad in glossy purple tubes

Talkback — Bar stools beside the purple tube wall

Talkback — Coffee bar through an elliptical opening

Photography: Nour El Refai

Talkback — Arched shelving niche and lilac dining room

Talkback — Arched niche and tubular metal chairs

Talkback — Table beneath a violet palm with chrome chairs

Photography: Nour El Refai

Talkback — Violet palm against iridescent ribbed glass

Talkback — Lilac table edge and light-blue banquette

Talkback — Retro-futurist objects on lit shelves

Photography: Nour El Refai

Talkback — Terrace with violet palms and iridescent chairs

Photography: Nour El Refai

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