Bar Interior Design | Hugo's Frog Bar | DMAC

The finest in-house establishment and a destination in itself, Hugo’s departs from its downtown sister through DMAC’s clarification and modernization of the design, featuring a façade of dark wood blocks with openings that offer vignette views of the interior. Echoed by a unique patterning of wood frames installed along the back wall and in the custom-built wine lockers for high rollers, the rectilinear forms find their counterpoint in circular-patterned black and white floor tiling and the whiskey barrel-ringed ceiling. As a focal point, the private dining room features a mural-scale image of an underwater ship with a patina surface. The totality is a warm and familiar but more sensuous environment in which to feast and repose........more

Cafe Interior Design | Late Night Cafe + Bar | London | jak studio

Being a London based practice the mixture of cultures in this city is always fascinating, and Andrae the owner of Petri late night bar and café was keen to bottle it. As an interior brief it had its challenges, the bar was to be a flexible space designed to accommodate sophisticated after work drinkers, diners, and late night clubbers.
Yet the space had been derelict for several years, so the budget and time was tight. With this in mind we designed it as a raw, bold space yet still warm and full of life and colour..........more

Bar Interior Design | OQO | London | Hawkins Brown

OQO was an entirely new concept in mixing Chinese dim sum with New York cocktails. A heady mix of supergraphics and superfood!
Mark Chan came to Jeremy Walker, at Hawkins\Brown, determined to make his dream of a cocktail bar selling dim sum a reality. We helped him find a site on Islington Green and introduced him to SEA Design. Together we developed a graphic identity of giant photographs of brightly-coloured vegetables spelling OQO. This campaign reached out across London, carried in advertisements in Time Out, Wallpaper Magazine, London Underground and bus shelters and brought a smart crowd to the restaurant.
OQO’s interiors were dark and mysterious, focusing on the brightly lit graphics, a shimmering bar and oriental seating..........more

Cafe Interior Design | Qubik bar Monfalcone Kinemax | Monfalcone | Italy | Waltritsch a + u

Qubik Monfalcone is one of the concept bars of a new brand of selected blends named Qubik caffè.
This Qubik bar is located inside a cinema multiplex, in a context similar to a commercial center or an airport, without windows or outdoor spaces. The silk-screened colored glass envelope provides a sober and elegant atmosphere to welcome the passer by. A long black cantilevered Corian counter act as
catalyst into the atrium of the multiplex, while a bench and a few chairs provides a more intimate alcove. In between there is the Kubo, a monolith-counter on wheels. Particular care was devoted to the presentation of the goods of the brand, following the Quality Boutique Caffè concept: an illuminated lantern, like a sugar cube terminates the suspended bar counter, while different color glass shelves are marking the glass cladded walls, and a shopper-rack over the cash desk is ready for those willing to buy the brand products........more

Restaurant Interior Design | Ella Dining Room and Bar | Sacramento | California | UXUS Design

UXUS was approached by a leading restaurateur in California to create a unique dining concept for their new location in California’s State Capital, Sacramento. UXUS created a complete restaurant concept including the interior restaurant layout and design as well as the branding and house style.

The restaurant covers an area of 700 m2 and seats 250 guests. All areas of the restaurant –bar, wine cellar, main dining area & private dining– were created by UXUS.

Central to Ella’s concept is the communal dining experience of the Table d’Hôte, which is designed to make the diners feel as if the chef has invited them to a private dinner party in his kitchen.

Ella has won many international design awards and has been featured on the cover of several major design publications..........more

Restaurant Interior Design | Alemagou | Ftelia Beach | Mykonos | k studio

Alemagou is a bar and restaurant on the sands of Ftelia Beach, in Mykonos. The concept is holistic with every element of the project telling a common story and coming together to create and inspirational yet laid back atmosphere, perfectly suited to the site........more

Bar Interior Design | Bar Epice | Tokyo | Keiji Ashizawa Design

Bar Epice is a wine bar in a half basement near Roppongi crossing which is located in one of Tokyo’s more affluent area.
In order to design the longest bar counter possible using Bubinga wood in a small triangulated plane area of 26 square meters while also providing a standing counter from concrete on the opposite side, the bar counter is placed diagonally across the space.To emphasize the two counters and to use the small space effectively, the bar stools are cantilevered off the wall under the bar counter.A 4 meter long lighting equipment hung over the counter is made to light up the bar only without creating any shadows........more

Bar Interior Design | Atelier Mecanic | Corvin Cristian

Atelier Mecanic (Mechanical Workshop) is a bar made of 1950 to 1970 industrial relics, salvaged leftovers, graphics and original furniture.It is a take on the industrialization of the country during communism. Romanians have an uncomfortable relationship with their past which usually ends up in simply erasing it: factories were perceived as a symbol of communism and keeping some memories of it was by no means a priority after the Revolution. 50 years of industrialization vanished in no time thrown at the scrap yard. Atelier Mecanic ironically brings them back........more

Bar Interior Design | Pitcher & Piano | Manchester | Nottingham | Macaulay Sinclair

In the viaduct arches of Manchester's Deansgate Locks, amidst copper and brick we inserted striking, bespoke red glass chandeliers delicately constructed from 3,000 hand-made glass tubes. We installed a 'hovering' bottom-lit monolith bar and Victoriana backdrop paying homage to the building's railway heritage.

In Nottingham, we ensured the dramatic 300-year old former Unitarian Church became a place to drink and eat by adding food cues. Elsewhere, we lit the building's dramatic stained-glass windows, removed the central drum to create a more cohesive atmosphere and added deep red banquette seating and suspended light fittings throughout........more

Restaurant And Bar Interior Design | Northern Greece | Designed By Studioprototype

Located in a traditional mountain village in Northern Greece, this restaurant and bar interior celebrates the elemental simplicity of natural materials. The subtle tones of stained oak timbers and light travertine surfaces juxtaposes against untreated decorative iron work and dark furniture and fittings. The result is a contemporary aesthetic set within a traditional vernacular environment.....more

Condesa df Interior Design | Mexico City | India Mahdavi

In Mexico, Condesa df, is the district going up.
It feels a new energy, business and bohemia. Its Art Nouveau facades, bustling streets and pleasant, green space, keeping a romantic feel. Tina Modotti and Edward Weston, two mythical 20s, do not they are the emblem?
But the charm of Condesa df combines past and future. Recently, bars, artist studios, galleries, restaurants flourish in this exclusive perimeter.
The urban adventure Condesa df is still in its infancy.
Hence the quality of air exciting the attraction of this center conveniently located off the main arteries.
Named after the neighborhood and inspired by him, a hotel with forty rooms opens Condesa df. Located at the intersection of streets airy, facing the lush park Espana, the building is an elegant Parisian style building dated 1928.
Three years of work were needed to completely hollow and restructure the old apartment complex. It was worth the wait. For a drink or a few nights, the Hotel Condesa df is now the place to see and be seen in Mexico.
Innovative and fully integrated into local life, Condesa df would have been possible without the synergy of international talent that participated in its realization. Parisian India Mahdavi, "hot-name" interior architecture, designed the space planning and decorating.
The American Jonathan Morr, leader of the New York-taste "the imagined pleasures of the table. Helena Ishbiah, renowned graphic designer, has invented his visual identification.
The origin and the implementation of the project rests with Mexican Carlos Couturier and Moises Micha SMEK, young partners of Hotel Habita in Mexico City. Condesa df exudes modernity.
The hotel grows at its height the codes for a new chic, informal and relaxed, showing a "me" said. Punctuating the space, the classic-contemporary furnishings created by India Mahdavi sets the tone: at once simple and glamorous, neutral and pop.
The atmosphere is on the wire always unexpected. The bar in the boudoir, the restaurant at the nightclub, the patio at La Terrazza, Condesa df, offers its guests a concentrated experience.

Enjoy the succession of moments, quiet or fun, is it not the essence of modern life?.......more

Bar Interior Design | Bar Left | Lisbon Portugal | Ricardo Carvalho + Joana Vilhena

The intervention in the old warehouse from the early twentieth century for the installation of a coffee bar focuses on valuing the proportions of the existing space (5mx 5m x 18m). The project is built as an open tube system to Largo Vitorino Damasio enabling a direct relationship between interior and exterior, causing the events that take place in the coffee bar to public space and transporting the motion of the inner city.

The formal choices translate into a reduction of elements and materials in order to appreciate the moments of enjoyment indoors: a black box as an input filter, a steel bench that is a memory and other tight spaces and long counter in corian white as the centerpiece of movement and stays. The toilets and stairs (for access to the mezzanine) in dark red are also of an abstract presence of ambiguity by its scale and function. Artificial light is the main element of manipulation of environments that allow the continuing transformation of the environment and the transition between day and night.....more

Bar Interior Design | Stockholm Furniture Fair | Camp Site and Wis Design

Title: Design Bar by Camp Site
Object: Interior design and exhibition
Year: 2009

Description: Together with the design collective Camp Site, we have created the Design Bar of 2009 at Stockholm Furniture Fair.

This is not just a temporary designed bar at Stockholm Furniture Fair. This is also an up-coming cafe and meeting point in one of Stockholm ’s suburbs, run by the Red Cross. When the fair is over, this room will revive as the brand new and much longed for interior in a meeting point for people of different ages and with different backgrounds
Chairs and tables, benches and carpets, lightening and textiles - they are all designed with a purpose more long lasting than being a decoration in a bar for a couple of days. And just by being here, taking a break with a cup of coffee and a sandwich, you as well contribute to the project.....more

Bar Interior Design | b side Wine Bar Designed by Kariouk Associates

Location: Ottawa, Ontario
Project Dates: 2008
Task: To design a downtown night spot with a seductive street presence.

Project Description:

The challenge of this project was to create an elegant interior for a new wine bar within the very long and narrow ground-floor space of a turn-of-the-century building that had only two windows at one end; the building's exterior curb-side front was to be converted to an additional seating area to be used seasonally. These objectives were to be achieved with a miniscule budget.
Project Response:

The design solution aimed to make the space appear larger by dematerializing the perimeter walls of the interior. First, the walls were entirely clad with mirrors (a costly material that was salvaged from the space's previous occupant). Then, new obscured-glass panels patterned with silver leaf were installed several inches in front of the mirrors. Concealed uplights placed between the mirrored and glass layers reflect light between the backs of the silver-leafed areas and the mirrors, causing the already numerous silver-leafed "squares" to be further multiplied and appear to float throughout the interior. In this way, the otherwise solid wall is broken down and given depth thereby creating a luminous, dreamlike interior; despite the space's shortage of windows, there is no "bad seat in the house." Silver-toned, shear fabric screens whose softness complements the glass walls, were designed to allow the interior to have the capacity to accommodate periodic, more private seatings, but to remain as open as possible for general use. A similar strategy was used for the new exterior patio, which was wrapped in 10-foot tall silver-toned translucent fabric walls illuminated from within by many wine-goblet lights suspended at various heights. Seen from the sidewalk, the patio appears as a giant, billowing lantern drawing in night-time urbanites.
Testimonials:

"After hearing rumours that b/Side was open, we decided to check it out... The decor is modern, dark with great glass panels along the walls and an illuminated bar showcasing the wine on offer."

"The place is gorgeous... The muslin screens for the patio is particularly notable, it's beautiful inside as well." ...more

Bar Interior Design | Vinoteca Bar Mahatsa Huarte| Navarra | Spain Designed By Bguiristain Bergera

The interior layout is dictated by the geometry of the local plant, characterized by trails to the street facades that emphasize its status as an intern and three pillars aligned. The public use area is housed in a rectangular, glass enclosures bounded by the two streets in their short sides, the dividing wall or partition wall with respect to another location to the west and a plane defined by the line of pillars to the east, coinciding with the location of the bar. All service functions, kitchen, toilets, storage and access, are accommodated in the remaining area between the said flat and the eastern boundary of the premises, very irregular. The fragmented, malleable condition of these parts serves the purpose of absorbing the vagaries of the geometry of that boundary, in favor of the proposed regular prismatic and serenity of lines and contours of the noble. The uniqueness of the proposal lies in the use made of a conventional ceramic bottle. It is backlit and fully occupies one of the vertical walls that limit local, coinciding with the area for public use. Its size and exposure accused give special importance, in line with local applications that combines bar and wine cellar. Serves as a warehouse, optimizing surface, gives character to the interior and provides effective demand from abroad, besides being a wonderful acoustic absorber. The natural counterpoint to the massive use of ceramic tiles and gypsum is found in the wood paneling on the opposite wall, hiding the service functions and integrates the exposure and access. A rigorous modulation evident in the exploded soil, wood and the facade, to link different faces, eliminates annoying solicitations and helps to integrate the pillars in the set......more

Restaurant Interior Design | Giardino Lounge | Ascona, Switzerland | Matteo Thun

Creating a unique inside-outside area:
In the Center of Ascona, the Hotel Giardino gets a new bar, a restaurant and a bar lounge – the project has an indoor area of 310 square meters. The outdoor area of 130 square meter will be visually integrated in wintertime and will be part of the total complex during summer months by bringing the garden into the space.
Opening in July 2010........more
Client: Giardino Group
Building use: Bar, Restaurant
Services provided: Interior design, Styling, Light Design
Total building area: 440 m2
Start date: 2009
End date: 2010
Phase: On Site

Bar Interior Design | Pleasant Bar | Stockholm | Electric Dream

Pleasant is an intimate 65 sqm bar situated in central Stockholm, opened in 2007.
As a starting point we worked with a fragmented fever dream, in which there was a place where the city meets an enchanted forest. The endless mirror ball ceiling in the bar area permits secret spying on everyone else. The wall framing the bar interior forms a graphic element as well as a bottle stand, DJ stand and one-cocktail-only tables. The mix of chairs are vintage, and coated with glossy black lacquer to become a family.
The restrooms play with infinity illusions and trippy kaleidoscopic effects. Strands of fiber optical threads are reflected in the mirror ceilings and walls, creating an endless sea of illuminated grass.....more

Bar Interior Design | Silk Road | City Center, Las Vegas | Karim Rashid

Silk Road is an elaborate multi-cultural vision where Mediterranean Spice & Trade Market encounters the plush & intimate opulence of the Merchant Route. Silk Road's seductive bar invites one to lounge in its sculptural fiberglass seating that flows to the outside space. The seating separates the relaxed yet elegant bistro-style seating, intended to create the atmosphere of a Merchant Meeting House, from the private booths of the intimate dining room. Silk Road invites guests to find themselves immerged in a seductive experience that invites to socialize freely in its sensuous surroundings from breakfast to dinner.....more
Client: MGM Mirage
Facilities: 161 seat dining room, 25 seat bar, 18 seat private dining room, lounge area, open kitchen, full kitchen
Area: 670 sqm

Bar Interior | Numero Bar | Sao Paulo, Brazil | Isay Weinfeld arquiteto

Numero bar was built on a very narrow and long strip of land in the Jardins area, in São Paulo.

A walkway runs from the street through a hallway/tunnel fully covered in mirrors, leading to the main hall.

At the Numero bar entrance, the ceiling is extremely low and the view of the hall – cascaded – is unimpeded. Progressing towards the back, the height gradually increases: descending levels feature comfortable lounging areas, under a ceiling that extends on a continually rising surface.

The low and indirect lighting throughout Numero bar lends the ambience a pleasant and cozy atmosphere, perfect for a relaxing drink at the end of the day, accompanied by friends and to the sound of good music.

A room reserved for private functions takes up the lower floor of Numero bar and, contrary to the main hall, features a low ceiling all along, with couches placed in the central axis of the room, built-in overhead lighting throughout, and walls completely covered by antique posters or poster fragments.

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Bar Interior | Frame Bar | Kolonaki, Athen, Greece | TDC Tsigos Design

Frame bar is the main bar of the St. George Lycabettus Hotel, located in the Kolonaki, Athen.
The main aim of the bar design was to recreate the usual typologies of chairs benches, bar stands, chairs and coffee tables using forms that morph from one geometry to the other, thus denying determined typology-activity association.

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