Specifiers Journal 2016

The bar features a bespoke 400mm
wide/50mm deep copper top, which
extends via a bull-nosed edge beyond
the rough-rendered concrete bar
front, which uses the same finish
as the right-side wall. The bar back
area is made up of a copper piping
framework with glazed shelving.
White-seated and timber-framed bar
stools are by Normann Copenhagen,
whilst the bar-surround flooring is in a
series of dark and light grey hexagonal
concrete tiles with bold red grouting.
The chairs which accompany the four,
right-side copper tables are in wicker,
with black metal legs. Flooring in this
area and throughout the remaining
restaurant space is a sanded, aged and
stained oak, giving the impression of
being weathered and already in situ
for some time.
The dramatic feature lighting display
over the bar includes glass pendants
from Royal Copenhagen, whilst the
two-sizes of alternating copper-andwood
alternating pendant lighting
to the rear of the restaurant are
from Libra. The lighting in the semiscreened
wine-store/dining areas is
in the form of hand-blown, smoked
glass pendants from Curiousa &
Curiousa.
Tables in the main restaurant space
are in bespoke, patinated zinc, with
natural wood and pale grey chairs
from Hay, from the J104 series. There
are also lower wicker chairs in the
centre, as well as two bespoke sets
of banquettes. The first of these runs
down the whole length of the rear
right space of the restaurant, below
the pale salmon plaster wall and
is made of a mild steel frame with
light tan leather upholstery, whilst
directly opposite on the left side is
a series of three booth areas, where
the banquette seating is finished in
buttoned light blue leather. The ledge
behind the booths is punctuated by
small lemon trees in terracotta plants,
further underlining the ‘outside-in’
feel.
Two semi-private dining areas on the
left of the restaurant are enclosed by
floor-to-ceiling screens with mild steel
frames and copper mesh and can each
seat up to 6 people. Smaller versions
of the screens also feature in other
parts of the restaurant, above the leftside
banquette seating, for example
and to shield a waiter station to the
right of the restaurant, helping add
a subtly industrial and contemporary
edge to the space. Empty, reclaimed
riddling racks, sourced from France
and traditionally used to house
champagne, are used in these dining
areas as a form of wall-panelling. The
furniture treatment is also slightly
different in these two rooms and
includes bespoke bamboo table tops
and black leather, steel-framed dining
chairs from Rockett St George.
The first of the areas, encased in an
aged brick surround, also wraps neatly
around the restaurant’s central service
core, where the food hoist is located,
along with a wine storage system
built into its outside wall, featuring
LED up-lighting and allowing full
access from the bar area.
Unisex toilets on the lower-ground
floor continue the industrial feel, via
Belfast basins and bespoke, surfacemounted
taps and toilet roll holders
made from copper piping. The space
is tiled in white to the half-way point
with very pale sea blue paintwork
used from there to the ceiling. Flooring
is the same hexagonal concrete tiling
as used for the bar surround, but on
this occasion minus the red grout.
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