Cafe Ikon, Ikon Gallery, Brindleyplace, Birmingham
Client: Tapas at Ikon / Anne Galloway
Status:Completed December 1998 |
The prestigious project is set on the ground floor of Birmingham's contemporary art gallery, Ikon Gallery and has become a stalwart for the city's discerning restaurant frequenters and was called "a modern masterpiece" by Birmingham's "What's On" magazine.
We were commissioned to transform the existing cafe space into an atmospheric Spanish Tapas Bar. This was achieved primarily through the addition of a polished plaster feature wall that draws reference from the concrete shuttered entrance space of the gallery itself.
"The Cafe is lovely and full of light, and the niches with their extraordinary liquid and luminous collages of real fruit and vegetables are amazing. It is a wonderfully energetic place to eat and meet." Antony Gormley (former Turner Prize winning artist), Sunday Express Magazine.
key points
- space is organised into an informal bar area and a formal restaurant, each defined by the flooring materials
- controlled glimpses into the cafe advertise it to passers by in a subtle manner (in particular the lighted bar feature)
- brand colour of cafe inspired by 'glass green light'
- refurbishment included lighting, furniture and interior graphics
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