Which McDonald's restaurant design introduced by Stanley Clark Meston used red-and-white tiled walls and Golden Arches?

The 1953 McDonald's design introduced by Stanley Clark Meston used red-and-white tiled walls and Golden Arches.

Architect Stanley Clark Meston developed the standardized restaurant design for the McDonald brothers in the early 1950s. Its most memorable features included red-and-white tile, a streamlined roadside form, and tall yellow arches rising at the sides of the building.

The arches were not initially conceived solely as a flat corporate logo. They were architectural elements intended to make the restaurant visible from the road. Their repeated use across locations eventually allowed McDonald's to turn the building feature into one of the world's most recognizable commercial symbols.

The design is sometimes confused with the 1961 logo redesign. The 1953 design concerns the restaurant building and its architectural arches; 1961 marks the later corporate identity in which the arches were treated as a unified logo. Both stages were important, but they describe different branding developments.