News & Observer | newsobserver.com | Scapes: 2004

July 10, 2004 June Lee [/assets/story/image_buynow.comp]
Cool. Eclectic. Refreshing. And very hip. A red bench against a neon-lime wall marks the Vertigo Diner and spices up an otherwise bland strip of storefronts along McDowell Street in Raleigh. The Spirograph-like star designs were the inspiration of a former bartender, who just felt like decorating something, said the diner's English owner Richard Marshall. Marshall chose the green and red, and a decorator matched the gray tones of the stars' nucleus and metal frame above them to the hues peeking from a long crack in the building's facade. The decor inside the Vertigo was inspired by famous American abstract paintings.

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