Located in a three-storey building in the elegant Salamanca neighbourhood, Keli is a 224-seat, 600 sqm Spanish restaurant and Art Programme from Kike Sierra, a Madrid-based restaurateur. Rockwell Group’s Madrid office previously collaborated with Sierra on Victoria, a music bar in Madrid that transforms into a nightclub.
The design of the restaurant draws from a heartfelt invitation into someone’s home. ‘Keli’ is a colloquial term for ‘house’ in Spanish, and ‘vente a mi keli’ is a friendly way of saying ‘come to my house’. Rockwell Group envisioned the restaurant as a home-away-from-home gathering, where each floor and room represents a different chapter of a worldly, well-travelled host’s life. The restaurant unfolds like a private residence, where each space is an intimate, art-filled vignette, inviting guests to explore and connect as if moving through someone’s treasured home.
Eva Longoria, Partner, Madrid Office at Rockwell Group commented: “For this project, we drew inspiration from our city’s domestic charm, art traditions and vibrant street culture. Combining these elements into a layered collage of colour, geometry and texture has created a restaurant that feels both cosmopolitan and deeply personal, a tribute to hospitality as a form of storytelling.”
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