The bar of the Kronenhalle in Zurich is one of the best known restaurants in Switzerland. Its legendary reputation is essentially owing to its interior, designed by Robert Haussmann in 1965. The Krönlihalle Bar was created as a temporary replica of this original, on a scale of 0.85 to 1, in a former lorry garage in Zurich West. The project was designed as a walk-in sculpture, a space within a space and at the same time as a functioning bar. It was intended to be both a tribute to the original designer, and at the same time a whimsical trompe-l’œil – this in view of the fact that the Krönlihalle Bar was everything that its predecessor is not, being cheap, trashy and temporary. The replica was realised with cheap materials, which could be recycled when it was dismantled. At its heart the project was a game involving perception through diminution, the use of “wrong” materials and many small changes, in some cases deliberately concealed.