Grain, the bar at the Four Seasons, Sydney offers a totally “un-hotel” concept and design style to encourage local patrons, traditionally reticent to patronise a hotel F&B Outlet, to embrace the new bar while also attempting to lure in-house patrons, usually the first to ask the Concierge for the best local “hot tips”.
Grain has been designed as a unique “artisan” bar, a blend of both artisan design and artisan operation. “Artisan” in design blending a variety of commissioned artist finishes and features in timber and other mediums and “artisan” in operation with talented bartenders – “mixologists” crafting equally unique in-house made infused alcohols and cocktails that will set Grain apart from its competitors. The name “Grain” was selected to reflect this – “Grains used in alcohol distillation (i.e. grain alcohol”, “Woodgrain”, etc.)
Award: Finalist in Asia Hotel Design Awards (AHDA) - Best New Bar
Status: Built
Location: Sydney, Australia
Firm Role: Interior Designer, Lighting Designer, Commercial Kitchen / Bar Designer
Additional Credits: Builder - ICMG - Sydney
Project Manager - Janet Hoy, Janet & Co., Sydney
Structural Engineer - Brown Consulting, Sydney
Joiner - Fino Joiners, Sydney
Artisan Joiner - Country Designs, Tamworth, NSW
Timber Flooring - Big River Timers, Sydney
Lighting Design - Dreamtime Australia Design
Kitchen / Bar Design - Dreamtime Australia Design
"Floating" Tensioned Illuminated Bottle "Wall" - Touchstone Building, Tim Barry
Bar Equipment / Stainless - Cater Shop, Sydney
Custom Fireplace - Classic Fires / Jetmaster, Sydney
Photography - Paul Gosney / Elbowroom, Melbourne, Australia
Dreamtime Design Team - Michael McCann, Jade Bolton, Xavier Mouche
