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Carefully hewn from what look like Mobius strips of sinuous mahogany, Bar Raval is a 21st-century reinterpretation of Spanish Art Nouveau that introduces Toronto to the pintxo bar, a cornerstone of social and gastronomic culture in Basque Country. The client charged us with executing an ambitious task: \u201ccreate an art piece\u201d that would become an enduring culinary and civic institution. We interpreted the directive through two aesthetic lenses: Spanish design and the organicism of muscle tissue. 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