Project Team
design: Brand + Slater
music: Nightlife
Suppliers
carpet: Brintons
fabric: Warwick, Zepel
tiles: Ace Stone & Tiles, Tile Solutions, Classic Ceramic
sports bar top: Caesarstone
wallpaper: Baresque
lighting: Hermon & Hermon, Ay Illuminate
furniture: Cubus Concepts,Prototype, James Richardson, Sico
The interior design brief called for a comfortable, spacious and relaxed atmosphere whilst creating a powerful connection with the outside allowing light to flood through the venue. The common bar invites visitors to circulate and discover a diverse range of dining and entertainment options. The palette of materials is consistent throughout, with minor variations in application and colour employed to create area identification whilst keeping within the overall scheme.
Upon entering into the newly renovated section, patrons are greeted with an impressive herringbone patterned timber wall which dominates the foyer and then weaves itself into the Lounge and out into the Courtyard Bar as a stunning bar front feature. This element creates a powerful connection between these spaces, serving as a link between the old and the new.
Patrons are welcomed into the Courtyard with a feeling of spaciousness as a series of high polycarbonate ceilings and steelwork have created a space that is a dramatic renewal of its former self. The Lounge bar wraps out into the Courtyard bar however the Tavern still has the ability to close the outside bar off through the use of a cleverly positioned fully frameless glass sliding door and the re-use of existing bi-folding doors. Flexibility has been a principal idea in the design and improvement of these areas.
Timber log tables are dotted throughout the Courtyard and are a reminder of the Tavern’s past – they have been recycled from the old signage which was once a renowned and dominating element of the streetscape. They now sit charmingly alongside new pieces of furniture which feature quirky wrought iron details and wicker, producing a very relaxed and comfortable coastal resort appeal. Custom steel framed planters have been designed to provide a delineation of space without enclosing and therefore losing the sense of spaciousness that the Courtyard presents.