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Restaurant Visit: La Corde a Linge in Strasbourg by Izabella

Issue 28 · Summer in Paris · July 13, 2011

Restaurant Visit: La Corde a Linge in Strasbourg by Izabella

Issue 28 · Summer in Paris · July 13, 2011

Housed in a former laundry from the 1930s, located in the Petite France quarter of Strasbourg, La Corde a Linge features interiors and graphics by Lyon-based My Beautiful (most notably a clothesline complete with wood pegs and the daily wash). The restaurant features two distinct aesthetics: in the older portion of the building, a rural wash house look prevails (baskets, spools of thread, and brick walls), while the newer part features an industrial look (Marko chairs, stenciled graphics). For more information, go to La Corde a Linge.

La Corde a Linge French Restaurant

Above: Classic cafe seating outside the restaurant.

La Corde a Linge French Restaurant

Above: Vintage drawers create an ad hoc storage unit near the cafe entry.

La Corde a Linge French Restaurant

Above: Whitewashed stenciled walls and Marko chairs add an industrial note to the more modern dining area.

La Corde a Linge French Restaurant

Above: Spools of thread as decor reference the building's past.

Above: Tables feature graphic lettering.

Above: The older part of the restaurant features a rural country look: laundry lines, baskets, Tolix stools, and sepia-toned photography.

Above: A brick wall is painted white with stenciled graphics.

Above: A vintage iron spiral staircase leads to the downstairs WCs.