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Vindalho's space features environmentally responsible interior materials that include sustainably grown bamboo tabletops, 100-percent wool carpet tiles, countertops of PaperStone (post-consumer recycled paper and renewable cashew-nut resin) and no-VOC paint by Portland-based YOLOColorhouse. There are 64 seats on the main floor, 14 at the bar and 18 on the mezzanine, with 32 seasonal outdoor seats on the private patio.

Prominent in the space is "Architecture and Light," an architectural sculpture commissioned in 1985 by the American Craft Museum in New York City. A collaboration of renowned glass artist Ed Carpenter and award-winning architect Michael McCulloch, the sculpture was created as a continuation of their work together on Purvine Hall, an engineering classroom/laboratory at the Oregon Institute of Technology in Klamath Falls, Oregon. The piece was constructed in Oregon at O'Neill Glass Studios in Troutdale, with woodworking by Ed Gordon Studios of Mollalla.

Integrated artworks are inseparable from their context. An abstraction of walls, roof, and partitions act as screens that host the projected and reflected light of a moving simulated "sun". Materials include colored, dichroic, and prismatic glass, eastern ash, synthetic rice paper, programmed theatrical lighting and stainless steel rigging.

Ed Carpenter is a Portland artist who has installations all over the world. Michael McCulloch is a Portland architect and was the design architect for the building complex that houses Vindahlo. Ed and Michael continue their collaboration to this day.

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