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Interior DesignHospitality 2024

BRASSERIE
LA MIȚA BICICLISTA    





Period: 2023-2024
Client: La Mița Biciclista  Establishment
Chief arch: arh. Eliza Yokina
Team: arch. Ruxandra Grigoraș; arch. Iulian Badărău; arch. int. Mihai Birtu
Restoration Consultant: Smaranda Baciu
Project management: Prografic - Lavinia Moraru, Elena Ifrim
Execution: Cella Cosimex - General Constructor
Photo: Cătălin Georgescu


The brasserie on the ground floor of Stabilimentul Creativ La Mița Biciclista is the most open of the building's spaces, with large windows facing Biserica Amzei and Cristian Tell streets. Light fills the interior in abundance during the day, and in the evening the light of the space warms this corner of the historic district.






Setting up the brasserie was yet another foray into the protagonist's personality - an exercise of imagination that brings out the story with real biographical facts, traits of her known personality and some recomposed ones. If the upstairs bar was an invitation to Mița's exclusive boudoir, the Brasserie is an open door to the guest lounge. A salon in which, if preserved, we would probably have had an ornate ceiling, golden chandeliers, paneled walls and marble floors with floral inlays, velvet curtains, carved and upholstered furniture, silver and crystal ornaments. 


Maria Mihăescu became known after an article that recounts the victory of the flower beating contest in Paris on the Champs-Elysees, at the end of the 19th century, with her whip decorated with flowers - a fashionable event of the time that was also held in Bucharest, on the Kiseleff Blvd., annually on May 10th. 

This incident propelled Mița's career as a high class escort, back in Bucharest, where she impressed with her beauty, boldness, extravagance, non-conformity and affinity for luxury. 

The fitted velvet trousers, the bicycle with the silver handlebars, the short haircut, the blouse with puffed cuffs, the white bonnet and her beautiful face are just some of the images that have reached us, surrounding an extravagant, playful, self-assured person who loves the shine.




Today we imagined the Brasserie as a place open to the city where you can read part of the protagonist's personality and the brilliance of the beginning of the century.






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17.11.2025
Two Awards for CUMULUS at the Romanian Hospitality Awards 2025

We are proud to announce that CUMULUS Architecture Office has received two awards at the Romanian Hospitality Awards 2025, in the “Best Design” category:

First Place – La Mița Biciclista
Reinterpretation of a historic Bucharest landmark, where architectural detail and narrative design celebrate cultural identity, while creating a vibrant hospitality experience. View project

Second Place – The Marmorosch Bucharest
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Winner – “Architecture of Interior Design / Residential Interiors”
Nomination – “Built Architecture / Individual Housing Architecture”

I House was also nominated in the main architectural category. View project


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