Daylight Cocktail Workshop enriches Night Bar Drink tastes

In Chengdu, a capital city in the southwestern China known for its laid-back lifestyle, there is such a cocktail R&D workshop & bar.The client’s emotional preferenceand rich experiences as a bartender convince the designer to create a novel project, in whichthe placeis convertedfrom an innovative cocktail workshop to a cozy and styled bar according to time shift in a day. 

Facts:
Design Company: GE Space Design
Location: No. 47 Hongshun Street, Jinjiang District, Chengdu City, China
Client: The Tasting Room
Design Team: LI Jia, Nemo, ZHOU Ying, WEN Wei, TANGQian
Design Content: Interior Design
Area: 110㎡
Design Time: July 2019
Completion Time: September 2019
Products Brand: Power Dekor, Nanogress, Thinkpower, Souls, Geze
Photography: ICY©ICYWORKS

Creddie Workshop, whichtargets to test and develop numerous possibility of making a glass of cocktail with different ingredient, locates in the front door of the site. Open bar area with sliding windows breaks its barrier with the passerby. Warm yellow lights and comfortable sitting placesencourage people to walk inside and explore mystery of cocktail making, as well as to become thevolunteer taster of a new drink recipe. Furthermore, Creddie Workshopalso provides technical consultancy, drink menu development and personnel training for other bars or individuals in the City. 

The Tasting Room bar is hidden behind the Workshop, which is accessible through a black passage and a cabin door. Simplicitydesignswithraw materials of bamboo, stones, and wooden floor emphases the place spirit in cocktail making with quality organic ingredient, which also contributes to enrichcustomers’ inherent experience and improve the tasting satisfaction. In thisworkshop + bar, every glass of drink has its own “ID card” that marks the recipe and the research and development notes from the bartender.

The warm light setting and the solid wood texture are well matchedin harmony. Bamboo weaving,a local art format in Chengdu, isdelicately set with the chairs back,wall decoration and light box.More surprisingly, bamboo weavingsscatterthe light on the floor and walls, that building up a magic lighting atmosphere within the space. 
  
Space transition between public bar areaand intimate space is naturally achieved through a curved wall, which half surrounds a semi-open room for certain privacy. Elaborate seats setting allows guests to drink and chat with enough space between each table and chair. Non-fixed tables and chairsfacilitate the extending of open space for social events, dancing is workable there in some case.