Restaurants, Hotels and Residential
SCP Contracts prides itself in its ability to understand the exacting requirements of restaurant and hotel projects, applying both off-the-shelf as well as bespoke solutions from the likes of Cappellini, B&B Italia, Arper, Poltrona Frau, Andreu World, Knoll and De La Espada, as well as lighting from Santa & Cole, Flos, Artemide and Modernica. We are also adept at working in domestic environments whether for luxury show flats or on one-off projects.
Our Restaurant, Hotel and Domestic clients come from a wide spectrum, they include Viet Hoa in Shoreditch, The Hemple in Bayswater, The Great Eastern in the City, The River Cafe in Hammersmith, M&S Kitchen for Marks & Spencer, Oliver Peyton's new restaurants at the National Gallery and Heal's in London, the exclusive Cowley Manor Hotel, Benugo Restaurants at the BFI and English Heritage, who recently worked with us on a bespoke furniture project.
Client: Benugo
Interiors: Path Design
Location: Ashmolean Museum Oxford
Set within the new Rick Mather extension to this historic museum Path Design have created a 90 cover restaurant with terrace and lawned area over looking the roof tops of Oxford.
Internally a glazed screen allows views into the new atrium and feature staircase which rises through the galleries, echoing the shape of the stair a zinc ship-lapped bar anchors the restaurant with the theater of an open kitchen behind. Goose feather pendant lights, which most visitors find hard to resist in touching, float over a mix of communal and traditional tables providing an informal relaxing retreat from the busy museum below.
Products:
Gubi chair and stool by Komplot Design (Gubi)
Luxembourg outdoor tables and chairs by Frederic Sofia (Fermob)
Ashmolean Dining Room
Client: Bistrotheque
Architects: David Kohn Architects
As part of the GSK Contemporary season at the Royal Academy, the West Room played host to the FLASH pop-up restaurant. Two SCP designs were specified for the duration of the event, the Avery chair by Russell Pinch and the Cross extending table by Matthew Hilton. The other products specified by SCP Contracts were the iconic and spectacular Taraxacum light by Achille Castiglioni for Flos and the classic Michael Thonet designed Chair 11, supplied by Ton.
Pablo Flack created the FLASH restaurant to symbolise the idea of "heritage subverted by youth." Of FLASH, he said, "we envisage it as an installation in its own right, complementing the mini-exhibitions that form the show." FLASH occupied the West Room in the ground floor of the academy and seated 120 guests, it was open for the duration of the show, 80 days.
The preceding years had seen Flack running the hugely popular Bistrotheque restaurant in East London, alongside David Waddington. As former fashion designers, their intuitive sense of occasion and attention to detail was much in evidence at FLASH. The restaurant echoed the formal rooms of eighteenth-century grand houses, with panelling made from art storage boxes and hung with paintings with a Rococo flavour. FLASH was graced with a number of quirky details, such as afternoon gin cocktails served from teapots and featured the Charles Deacon designed Swarovski crystal chandelier as a centrepiece. Working with David Kohn Architects, SCP Contracts specified products to complement the quirky aesthetic, whilst also functioning well as true restaurant furniture.
Products:
Cross Extending Dining table by Matthew Hilton (CASE)
Avery side chair by Russell Pinch (SCP)
Chair 11 by Michael Thonet (Ton)
Taraxacum light by Achille Castiglioni (Flos)
Bistrotheque
Client: Viet Hoa Restaurant
Designers: Vonsung
Viet Hoa is one of the most popular canteen-style Vietnamese eateries on Kingsland Road. The Viet Hoa Cafe recently shrugged off its old office-style interiors in favour of a hip new look, complete with the intelligent use of timber planks, metal fixings & branded features.
Brick Lane based creatives Vonsung were invited to re-brand and re-design the interior of the Viet Hoa Cafe, which has been located in Shoreditch for over 10 years and become one of the best local restaurants.
SCP Contracts worked with Vonsung and Viet Hoa helping to identify, sample and ultimately supply the cafe furniture.
Products:
Aluminium Army chairs
Billiani CO2 Stools
Viet Hoa
Client: Eat 17
Location: Walthamstow, London
Based in the heart of Walthamstow Village, Eat 17 is a local restaurant that has earned a reputation for serving honest, skillfully prepared, ethically sourced British food. They paid particular focus on creating a dining space that was relaxed, beautifully furnished and a pleasure to spend time in.
The restaurant has a traditional dining area, sit-down bar and a number of intimate booths to eat and drink in. SCP Contracts were briefed to specify lighting for the bar and booth area. Eat 17 were particular in their brief, requiring lights that would on the one hand be a feature, but also provide soft diffuse lighting for the booths.
SCP Contracts choose lighting by British designer Tom Dixon and the H stool by Tolix.
Products:
Beat pendant, Pressed Glass and Copper Shade by Tom Dixon (Tom Dixon)
H stool by Xavier Pauchard (Tolix)
Eat 17 Bar and Restaurant
Client: Benugo
Interiors: Path Design
Location: British Film Institute
The BFI Southbank (previously the National Film Theatre) screens over 1,000 films a year, from rare silent comedies to cult movies and archive television screenings. The venue hosts previews and gala screenings as well as events and on-stage interviews with film-makers, actors, producers, critics and writers. The BFI also publishes a wide range of books on film and television, including criticism, theory and history as well as popular companions to individual film titles.
Benugo, the popular high-street cafe and deli brand that was established in the late 1990's by brothers Ben and Hugo Warner, opened a Benugo Bar & Kitchen within the BFI in 2007. Benugo pride themselves on being able to operate effectively in both the high-street and in demanding corporate and public spaces such as the V&A and the BFI.
At the BFI, Benugo were working within an open and light filled space, they wanted to create an environment that blended a comfortable lounge area with a more formal sit-down dining space. They also needed to create natural divisions within the space, without building walls. Working closely with SCP Contracts, they specified the Elsie armchair by celebrated SCP designer Russell Pinch. The formal dining area features the classic fibreglass Side Chair by American manufacturer Modernica. Benugo were delighted with the results of the overall design, the venue was transformed from a industrial looking shell to a warm, comfortable and functional space, one filled with colour, texture and light.
Products:
Elsie armchair and compact sofa by Russell Pinch (SCP)
Fibreglass side chair with dowel base (Modernica)