圓 Insights publication of the Marek Family of Companies
Summer 1993
Curves, Coves and Caves and Curious Designs
Russell Bellew (It.) shares a joke with owner Michael Cordua (center) and the Architect, Larry Traxler are straight. In fact, many of the MBS has always enjoyed a walls are built as 3-dimen reputation for accommodating sional sculptured designs con unusual design features with structed to look like the limbs outstanding quality work. Of of trees or stalactites, with ceil course, in the restaurant busi ing coves and reveals shaped to ness, unusual designs have be resemble the roofs of exotic come quite commonplace. The subterranean caves. Special new Americas restaurant in "rock face" texturing on the Houston, however, has prob walls, constructed from Styro ably one of the most striking foam, masonite and plywood, interiors ever built. To begin covered in burlap and painted, with, none of the interior walls enhance the theme.
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The outside of the new Americas restaurant
Barron Builders awarded MBS the contract to build-out much of the interior based on our ability working on unusual projects of this kind. craftsmen Our proved once again that MBS can deliver. Working up to 84 hours a week, the project certainly presented some challenges - not the least of which was determining from the architectural
drawings and specifications what the final construction was intended to look like. Working under Foreman Russell Bellew’s direction, carpenters James Nethery and James Anderson did an excellent job customizing the wood finishes and building in the bar tables, while Finishers Steve Hollamon and Art Zepeda, and Painters Richard Boling and Charles Groux, created many of the intricate and unusual design features which make this new restaurant so unique.
Some interior walls were finished out to resemble caves
The stairway from the bar area leading up to the sit-down restaurant
Three dimensional walls characterize the overall theme
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