Germain is a Parisian restaurant in a newly revitalized space that hired two well established Parisian designers to create a unique blend of comfortable interior space as well as provoking atmosphere of what is now one of the finest restaurants in Paris.

The well known, Iranian–born and Paris-based architect, India Mahdavi, created the interior architecture of the three-storey, unique and inspiring establishment. The most vivid feature of the space is a rather oversized yellow sculpture of a female in an overcoat and high heels. Its lower half grows from the café’s base floor while the upper body and head break through the ceiling to the upper level which is also serving as a VIP lounge area.

The sculpture is one of three that the multi-disciplinary, Paris-based artist, Xavier Veilhan, made of his favored friend Sophie (we all intrigued about this inspiring woman) for an exhibition at the Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery (Miami) in 2006. When Thierry Costes, scion of the Parisian hospitality family that owns Germain, asked an artist to contribute to Germain restaurant design, Veilhan started with studying the multi-storey location and envisioned the space that would be created if one of his Sophies “grew” in it, almost as if it were a feature that pre-existed the restaurant.

The Costes family is no stranger to using the talent and drawing power of well-known designers and artists in its hotels, restaurants and cafés. The fact that the 36-year-old artist’s sculptural installation work has a prominent presence currently at Versailles  cannot but help attract customers and tourists to the newly cooked Parisian restaurant. [via eruptive]