Work placement based project in Hexham

App 70sq m floor space

Coffee Shop

''Bee in the butterfly''

This a live project for a private customer. The lady has a small coffee shop above a bakery in Hexham. She bought a place across the road where she would like to move it to and have some professional help for setting it up.  She hasn't got a budget and wants to keep some of her existing furniture and for the new cafe. She also travels a lot and has a great collection of memorabilia to incorporate within the decor. She would like to attract people from all age groups that will enjoy a cup of tea and a piece of cake in a welcoming and cosy shop. 

On site  

Research and inspirational images

My concept for the cafe

Quick renders 

The Forth, on site research Ladies WC

The toilets are in a bad condition and run down, the walls need some colour and the panels as well. Nicky wanted some colour and character in there. She also wanted elegant interior that would be unique and interesting.                                                                

And there is my proposal...

Renders

Perspective drawings

My proposal floor plan

The Forth, on site research

We went down to the pub to meet the managers to discuss their requests and ideas about the look of it take photographs of the site. There aren't going to be any structural changes. The budget for the internal part of the pub is £100 000 which is a good amount of money for changing the colour scheme, the lighting and part of the floors. That is how the pub currently looks.

The solid wood floors are in good condition, they would like to keep some of the furniture and create space  where the clients would have privacy and a welcoming feel of comfort. The main bar is listed and the only change to it could be .the colour. I quite like the way it is and wouldn't chage it the are around it either. This way there will be a mixture between the old and the new parts of the bar. 

I am going to concentrate on this area of the pub I would like to have cool leather booths, fitting between five and   seven people. I am also going to design a new fireplace to lift the look of the room.

The Ladies toilets need attention. They are dated and without any character. 

Roof Terrace

The Forth, Pink Lane, Newcastle

The Forth is one of the pubs in Newcastle City Centre located on Pink Lane area which is owned by Mitchells&Butler along with O'Neill's,  All Bar One, Innkeeper's Lodge, Sizzling Pubs, Harvester, Toby Carvery and more. We have to come up with proposal design of the interiors of it. The bub will be closed for two weeks until it's updated. 

Renders

Card Model of the bookshelf in scale 1:10

Bookshelf for Palais De Tokyo

My concept for this project is to design a piece of furniture that is original and interesting, suitable for a contemporary art museum. I have been playing with form and shape as well as proportions and use of space. My design for minimal clean-shaped bookshelf with built in light and a strip light at the back is a contemporary and could be a nice addition to the furniture in the shop, for instance. I think that the scroll shape curve on the shelf works great with the light and creates and elegant in a way feel to it, as well as the curves on the internal part of the shelf. It's made from white and semi-transparent polycarbonate and glued together.

Bespoke Piece of Furniture

BESPOKE FURNITURE
Brit.(interior) made to an individual order; custom-made; a bespoke piece of furniture

For this project I have decided to design a a bespoke piece of furniture for Palais De Tokyo in Paris, which will be a contemporary minimal bookshelf inspired by Scandinavian design. I have research some bookshelves and their methods of construction as well as materials.

Simple and elegant Loft contemporary bookcase in white lacquered embossed MDF. It is an interesting, contemporary design. You can arrange books in many different ways.
Dimensions in  inches: 79Wx13Dx67H
Structure: Wood/lacquered embossed

The oval-shaped shelf has an organic dynamic composition of the components, it is original and elegant.

Box Storage System
Material: painted ash, aluminium, industrial felt

This a piece of furniture aimed for storage and room dividing. It's built up by boxes you twist, turn and stack as you like. You decide what expression to create. This is a modern, functional and playful way to introduce some character and charm to a room.

Modular aluminium bookshelf - Airbook by Domodinsmica

Airbook is a shelf or a "wing floating on the wall". The combination of several such shelves allow you to get a vertical row which reminds of a flight of birds strengthen one another. the shelf is made by the folding an aluminium sheet of 3mm thickness that is later laser cut and transformed by twists ans turns. It is designed by Denis Santachiara for Domodinamica.

This is a design of a shelf for a library with an unusual, funny and bumpy shape and charming, modern, minimalist design. Called " Corrugated Shelf" by Kim Sang Hoon for Keame Design Studio in New York. The designer expresses the beauty of sharing shelf space on the system by providing vertical and horizontal geometric distribution on this furniture.