Hospitality

A bar is the hardest room we work in and the most fun. It has to look like somewhere worth sitting in, it has to hold up to a Saturday night, and the finish usually has to do the job that a decorator, a signwriter and a shopfitter would otherwise split between them.

It is also where the one-off finishes belong. A bar top in gold and bronze. A rust finish worked up as a sign. Foil over a heavy textured bronze that turns blue and copper as you move along the counter. None of that is out of a catalogue, and that is the point — nobody else will have it.

Behind the showpieces, Marmorino, MicroCement and the polished plasters do the room itself: hard-wearing, seamless, wipeable, and forgiving of the knocks that a public room takes.