Our latest “Best Brick” brings us to Weehawken, NJ, and a Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse whose designer, Beth Donner Design, looked to Stone Farm for reclaimed thin brick veneer.
BEST BRICK IN PRACTICE
Beth’s goals included enlarging the space while also adding more warmth, a potentially tricky combination to pull off. Searching for some inspiration, she happened to visit Stone Farm at the Architectural Digest Show in New York City. A deeper dive into our material led her to reclaimed thin brick veneer, which turned out to be a great choice for realizing her vision.
For a few strategically-chosen walls, she used our New England Mill blend, and appointed them with vintage framed photos and artwork. The result is an old steak house vibe built into a modern high ceiling space.
The thin brick veneer is used in much the same way in the restaurant’s private dining rooms, where the narrower brick-tiled walls and their coverings serve as warm accents to trey ceilings, wood panels, and crystal light fixtures. On the main dining room’s thin brick wall is a piece of custom art depicting a trumpet player, with musical notes floating out of his instrument. This is a nod to New Orleans, where Ruth’s Chris was founded.
The use of thin brick helped bring this expanded space to life by mixing old with new. And the rest is history, literally. Found in old schoolhouses, factories and mills, Stone Farm’s Reclaimed Thin Brick brings history right into homes, stores, restaurants, and office buildings all around North America, just like Ruth’s Chris.