- Type
- Hospitality
- Location
- Kolkata
- Size
- 1,100 sq ft · 30 covers plus the bar
- Status
- Concept design
The room as it is. Timber boarding on every wall, a ceiling of circular acoustic discs, blue wash lighting, and furniture that could be anywhere — the bar counter is on the left and you would not know it from here.
The plan the whole scheme comes off. Bar counter and backdrop run the full left side, the smoking room and service stay in the top corner where they already were, and the entrance stays bottom left. Fixed banquettes take the long walls; six three-tops and three four-tops sit loose between them — about thirty covers before the bar stools.
The bar, which is the thing you see on entering. Nine arched niches lit from inside, a granite counter on a patterned front, and the backlit lettering set on plaster to the right of it.
Down the room from the bar. Banquettes hold both long walls, the loose tables sit off them, and the printed ceiling panel runs overhead in its timber frame — the one deliberately loud surface in the room.
The same room by day. The window wall is a screen rather than a hole, so daylight arrives already patterned and the floor is doing as much work as the ceiling.
From the smoking room door, looking back. This is the view that tests the scheme: the bar is behind you, and the room still has to hold together on artwork, banquette and ceiling alone.
The branding, in the position it was drawn for — beside the smoking zone, with the pipe above it. Both are on the detail sheets rather than chosen at the end.
The bar elevation, and underneath it the backdrop set out niche by niche at 370 mm each. Four arch types run 1 2 1 3 4 3 1 2 1 — a palindrome, so it reads as composed rather than repeated. Counter at +1100, the glazed smoking room door alongside at 8 mm toughened glass on a pivot.
The window wall, 5,617 mm of it, drawn bay by bay at 600 mm: CNC-cut metal jaali behind toughened glass, light boxes above so it glows without daylight, and a 50 × 50 mm beading with a cove for the LED strip. The pipe is here too, at 905 mm.