Kuletto is considered "one of the West Coast's most sought-after restaurant designers".

Peter Niemitz, a restaurant designer, has recreated the atmosphere of a 1920's Parisian supper club.

"In the 80's we were building huge spaces that awed people," said Sam Lopata, the restaurant designer.

Roseanna Marks, a restaurant designer whose family owns two Manhattan eating places, is the other owner.

The company hired a well-known restaurant designer, Charles Morris Mount, to create the interior.

As diners yearned for better food with less formality, restaurant designers began creating more casual, often whimsical, dining spaces.

Similarly, said David Schefer, a restaurant designer, lower-priced restaurants have chairs that are 15 inches wide and made of wood.

The dining room, conceived by the restaurant designer and architect Adam Tihany, features a tangled metal ceiling sculpture.

NO one can accuse restaurant designers of throwing in everything but the bathroom sink.

The restaurant designer will be Adam Tihany.