![Brownstone Bar / Kokaistudios - Shelving](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5014/ae72/28ba/0d39/5000/0cf1/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414087475)
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Architects: Kokaistudios
- Area: 130 m²
- Year: 2010
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Photographs:Charlie Xia
Text description provided by the architects. The ‘Brownstone’ is a cocktail lounge located in the Surpass Court of Yonjia Lu 570, emerging epicenter of Shanghai night life. It was developed as a prototype for a venue of new concept in co-operation with ‘Blue Horizon Hospitality Group’ (Blue Frog).
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The project combines a simple and efficient layout, partly suggested by the limited dimensions of the venue, with the complex and redundant interplay of textures and custom-made elements concurring to define the sophisticated atmosphere and the strong identity of the place, a one-of-a-kind experience lousily inspired, in the intentions of the client, to the decadent turn-of-the-Century French ‘Salons’.
![Brownstone Bar / Kokaistudios - Table, Chair, Beam](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5014/ae62/28ba/0d39/5000/0ced/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414087477)
The bar is divided in a central part, developed around the bar counter and a fully equipped dj booth, furnished with wooden finished built-in counters and high seats, and two lounge areas around it, raised platforms finished in dark wood and furnished with low armchairs and sofas.
![Brownstone Bar / Kokaistudios - Shelving](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5014/ae67/28ba/0d39/5000/0cee/medium_jpg/stringio.jpg?1414087486)
Raw natural materials, wood or stone floor finishes and red bricks walls, are combined with precious custom-made surfaces used as highlights: modular metallic open ceiling, translucent metal and acrylic back-lit lattice panels screening the windows at the background and the bar shelves. The ‘peacock feather’ is a recurrent theme in both the design of the screens’ pattern and the loose furniture color palette.
![Brownstone Bar / Kokaistudios - Table](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5014/ae83/28ba/0d39/5000/0cf5/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414087496)