Cobalt blue surfaces line this bar and restaurant in Manhattan's Lower East Side, designed by Brooklyn-based Studio Omar Aqeel as a "retro-futuristic oasis".
On the corner of East Houston and Allen streets, Only Love Strangers is a two-level cocktail lounge, restaurant and live-music venue that draws influences from 1960s and 70s surrealism.
Guests arriving at Only Love Strangers are greeted at a cantilevered host stand within a limewashed spaceStudio Omar Aqeel blended references ranging from Stanley Kubrick's 2001...