When Maria Hines decided to open a new restaurant in Ballard, she asked her friend Claire Barnett, owner of Seattle Mosaic Arts here in Wallingford, to design, create, and install a mosaic on the kitchen’s stainless steel oven. Given the restaurant’s open kitchen floor plan, the 26 square foot mosaic will be seen by anyone sitting at the bar or dining at a table facing the kitchen in the Golden Beetle.
I met with Christina Vaule–one of the four women in the studio who have been working on the mosaic since early December, and she pointed out the four mosaic …