Archive for February 2010

Corney & Barrow

Having heard of the success of our interior design at The Square, Corney & Barrow commissioned us to design several of their wine bars. They wanted a fresh, contemporary, stylish and elegant look and a departure from the designs of their other outlets.

Altogether we have designed seven wine bars and although they are part of a chain we have been able to give each one a unique look and character, using natural materials and warm tones of colour to create a relaxed and mellow atmosphere.

Thursday, 25 February 2010 | Posted in , | 0 Comments

The Square

The Square was opened in London in 1991 by owner and chef, Phillip Howard and since then it has been rated consistently as one of the top restaurants in London.

We designed the interior, comprising bar, restaurant and private dining room, to be elegantly refined rather than overstated, in order to provide a relaxed and comfortable dining experience.

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Eureka! The National Children’s Museum

Eureka! Is the award winning museum and charity based in Halifax, West Yorkshire. Everything in the museum has been designed to inspire children to find out about themselves and the world around them through hundreds of hands-on exhibits.
 
We designed  a world for children where they could take on adult roles whilst learning about science, society, commerce and work. The gallery is a small working town with a house, shop, post office, bank, factory and garage all set around a town square complete with fountain and excavations exposing an area below ground level. The house has been de-constructed to expose its construction and all tits services such as water supply and drainage. It also contains a working kitchen for cooking activities. Children can dress up and work in the shop, factory or bank, service a model car, deliver the post or explore the structures and buildings, both above and below ground. 

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Gunwarf Portsmouth – Offices and marketing suite for Berkeley Homes

The interior was designed to be a show place in which this prestigious development could be marketed and secondly to be  an office for the sales staff and project management team.

The development is on the waterfront in Portsmouth and the marketing suite was designed to highlight the panoramic views over the Solent to the Isle of Wight. The visitor entered into the marketing suite via a long corridor which enhanced the vistas and views of the surrounding seascape.

The leather panelled walls were curved to represent the shape of waves and also echoed the organic shape of the building. A monitor showing CGI’s of the development was set within a glass clad column. A model of the development floated on a circular, internally  illuminated plinth.
 
Other areas we designed included private offices, meeting rooms, kitchen and toilets.

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Grosvenor Waterside Chelsea – Offices and marketing suite for Berkeley Homes

The interior had a dual purpose, firstly to provide a show place in which this prestigious development could be marketed and secondly as an office for the sales staff, project management and the team running the construction.

The development is the largest art installation in the world and the massive wall within the marketing suite, punctuated with openings represented the strong positive and negative forms contained within the new building design. It also served a break between the reception area and the presentation suite, containing an audiovisual display and model of the development.

Other areas we designed included private offices, meeting rooms, kitchen and toilets.

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Wild Bean Café

Minale Tattersfield provides design services for BP’s network of petrol stations and convenience stores across Europe. As part of this remit we have worked on a number of design projects for Wild Bean Café, the quick service coffee shops situated inside the convenience stores.

A new departure for Wild Bean Café has been a stand alone café situated at the entrance to the Portsmouth ferry port. We provided designs for this first outlet of its type. Another stand alone outlet, designed by Minale Tattersfield has been installed at BP’s office complex at Sunbury.

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Whitewater, Newbridge Ireland – Offices and marketing suite for Balleymore Estates

The interior was designed to be a show place in which this prestigious retail development could be marketed and secondly to be an office for the sales staff, project management and the construction team.

The walls in the entrance leading to the reception area were clad in back illuminated blue glass. The reception desk was also clad in illuminated blue glass. Light boxes containing images of the development were set within the walls.

A showroom contained an exhibition of the development including a back projection screen. Other areas we designed included private offices, meeting rooms, kitchen and toilets.

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Mantero - Bespoke design

Minale Tattersfield was asked to update the existing exhibition stands for the Italian silk fabric manufacturer, Mantero Seta. There were two projects working side-by-side, for the men’s silk accessories, which needed to be mobile and flexible to be used at three different events each year in Italy and Germany. The other was for their silk fabric divisions, to be shown at the Premiere Vision fair in Paris twice a year.

Our solution was to create ‘Galleria Mantero’ a gallery of the brands under a Mantero umbrella. For the silk accessories at Pitti in Florence the ‘Galleria Mantero’ solution promoted the brands, such as Gianfranco Ferre, Kenzo, Paul Smith and Donna Karan, for which Mantero is a supplier treating them as guest artists in the space. Items representing the range revealed from behind concealed wall panels to add theatre and complete the sales experience.

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Tuesday, 9 February 2010 | Posted in | 0 Comments

Motorola - Big news at SMAU

Minale Tattersfield was asked to create an environment for Motorola's 700 sq. m stand at the Office Machinery and Equipment Exhibition SMAU 2000 in Milan that would promote the four main market segments of their new WAP mobile phone range.

The stand was also to promote their new technology initiatives and their business infrastructure systems, and to include a bar area and private office spaces.

Our solution used 4 large cones of light abstracted from the Motorola 'M' logo and suspended from the ceiling to highlight 4 areas of the stand forecourt, representing Motorola's home and family, business, youth and high end market areas.

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Manicure Express - The fast beauty service

Manicure Express, ME for short—a name chosen deliberately to work in a multilingual environment—represents a new concept in nail care in Russia.

A service aimed at middle-income women who prefer to simply show up rather than make a traditional appointment, the brand is modern and friendly, and decidedly mass-market, although outlets are located in upmarket malls, airports, and other high-traffic areas.

The colors are vibrant, to communicate quickly in cluttered environments, and the simple, European-feel graphics allow for easy extension into personal-care product ranges.

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