“Extremely-camp meets ultra-luxury” in London’s Bob Bob Cité restaurant
Eight miles of mirror-polished metal trim creates a glistening end inside Bob Bob Cité, a maximalist French restaurant within the Metropolis of London designed by BradyWilliams.
Designed in collaboration with restaurant proprietor Leonid Shutov, the inside is described as “ultra-camp meets ultra-luxury” by Shayne Brady, co-founder of inside design studio BradyWilliams.
It’s suspended 30 metres above the atrium within the Leadenhall constructing designed by structure agency Rogers Stirk Harbour + Companions.
“The final word purpose was to create one thing quirky, eccentric and memorable that did not conform to typical considering,” Brady advised Dezeen.
“Growing the notion of journey, which impressed the design at sibling restaurant Bob Bob Ricard, Bob Bob Cité is impressed by 21st-century design and future aviation journey.”
Harking back to a superyacht or an expensive early-20th-century Zeppelin airship, the restaurant options railway-carriage cubicles which have been given a futuristic twist.
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The partitions of the primary eating room are coated with Japanese book-binding paper accented with the mirror-polished metal trim. The trim weighs over five-and-a-half tons and is held in place by 48,000 hand-polished ‘snake eye’ bolts.
“The burden of those bolts alone is such separate structural evaluation needed to be undertaken to make sure that the ground plate may help the load,” stated Brady.
Shutov’s love of major colors influenced the daring crimson and blue palette of the primary eating room, complementing the prevailing yellow within the constructing’s structure.
The restaurant boasts three non-public eating rooms, every with a private reception space that company can use for pre-dinner drinks.
Rosewood marquetry panelling on partitions and ceilings all through the varied eating areas was crafted off-site and put in as full items, for a exact end.
The unique Bob Bob Ricard restaurant features a “Press for Champagne” button on every desk, a characteristic that has turn out to be in style with diners posting on Instagram. It has been included into the design right here – this time in French.
When ‘Pressez pour le Champagne’ is activated, the desk quantity seems on a ticker tape that wraps each the inside and the facade of the restaurant – a reference to its location in London’s monetary district.
BradyWilliams is a London-based studio based by Shayne Brady and Emily Williams. The studio specialises in business and residential initiatives which are designed to be timeless but memorable.
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