D-raw for Fenwick

Privately owned British department store Fenwick are set to show a major return to form with the launch of Bond and Brook. The restaurant slash café slash bar is designed by architectural and interiors practice d_raw, in collaboration with the hospitality consultancy A Private View.  The site will boast not only a daytime restaurant but also a less formal café area and a large, sculptural, showpiece of a cocktail bar central to the no-expense-spared space. All elements of the design have been created especially for the reclaimed space, most prominently a curtain of semi-reflective, floor to ceiling, asymmetric glass ‘fins’ that encircle the two store-facing sides of the restaurant, allowing the restaurant to be concealed or indeed opened up onto (and mixed with) the fashion floor, highlighting the stores several new acquisitions. Other features include a full ‘fashion library’ of books and magazines and a ‘champagne burst’ chandelier (a visual echo of the celebratory ambience) rising above the pewter wrapped cocktail bar.

www.d-raw.co.uk