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The esthetical layout for Bridges – after a design by the French interior architect Sybille de Margerie – got its inspiration from the coloration and shapes of the 1949 mural ‘Questioning Children’ by COBRA-artist Karel Appel. You can still admire this painting at the entrance of the restaurant.

Grand Opening Bridges Restaurant images RVDA

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Questioning Children (Vragende Kinderen) (Karel Appel) [wiki]

Karel Appel, Questioning Children, 1949, fresco

A colorful but somber composition of several big, dull planes in which the contours of starving children are created with bold black strokes. That is the mural that COBRA-artist Appel was commissioned for by the city of Amsterdam for the canteen of the former city hall. Appel was inspired by seeing starving children in post-war Germany on a trip to Kopenhagen. The civil servants that frequented the canteen objected to the coloration and the forms, so the mural was hidden behind a partition in 1949. It stayed there for ten years. Now, it is considered one of the masterpieces of the former city hall.

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Bridges | Aurélien Poirot

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Bridges | Restaurant

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Bridges | Raw bar

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Bridges | Lounge Bar

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Bridges | Vinothèque

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Garden

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Afternoon Tea