1 2 Designing a restaurant destined to house celebrity chefs and their audience can be quite an undertaking. But designer Thomas Schlesser, principal of New York-based Design Bureaux, went a more intimate route for the Voltaggio Brothers Steak House, a new restaurant that opened in December in the circular concourse of the MGM National Harbor hotel in Baltimore from chefs (and former Top Chef contestants) Michael and Bryan Voltaggio. Resembling a southern brick home, seven primary rooms-each with its own distinct look-lead guests from a foyer to a chic study bar with a suspended walnut open-coffered ceiling and green-painted bookshelves into a formal dining room with a gold-leaf ceiling that illuminates the wood-veneer walls and colorful porcelain displayed in bronze cabinets. 1. Architectural archways in the Voltaggio Brothers Steak House connect the seven distinct rooms, including linking the study with the elegant dining room. 2. The study doubles as a cozy bar, complete with quilted custom seating, green painted shelving, and a suspended walnut open coffered ceiling. hospitalitydesign.com May 2017 299http://www.hospitalitydesign.com