winner upscale restaurant Daphne Toronto A cinematic air pervades Daphne, where patrons glimpse dining rooms through a transparent wine cabinet upon arrival and step into the Great Room, with its vaulted ceiling and open kitchen, via a draped passage. Commissioned pencil illustrations resembling photographs hang on the red ochre walls in the Drawing Room, while a mirrored corridor enveloped in a handpainted landscape mural leads to the backlit, glass-topped bar-a nod to both fi lmmaker Stanley Kubrick and Beaux-Arts architect Henry Bacon. " Daphne embodies the unexpected, " says Paolo Ferrari, founder of his eponymous design studio, " balancing the qualities of nostalgia and warmth with experimentation. " Architecture and Interior Design Firm Studio Paolo Ferrari, Toronto Owner Dream/Ink Entertainment Partnership " There is complexity in these spaces. It's coordinated and beautiful. " -HD Awards judges hospitalitydesign.com May/June 2024 135 Photo by JOEL ESPOSITOhttp://www.hospitalitydesign.com