A new 475 sq m restaurant for Manchester’s Museum of Science and Industry, as part of an overall £9m refurbishment project.  The design treatment was inspired both by the Museum’s content and by the old building’s strongly industrial feel, including old brickwork, timber ceilings and huge steel structure.  Bespoke furniture included monolithic server tables – partway between industrial workshop tables and lab benches – with stainless steel tops and bright green steel ‘section’ legs.   A spillover are, aimed at school groups and families, includes a features bright and easily-reconfigurable lightweight foam tables and angled, coloured stools.

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As part of the £9m refurbishment of Manchester’s Museum of Science and Industry – which tells the story of Manchester’s scientific and industrial past, present and future – SHH was commissioned to redesign the new hospitality offer, which includes a 200 sq m ground floor cafeteria and a 475 sq m first floor restaurant.  The design treatment was inspired by the Museum’s industrial content and industrial feel and includes bespoke furniture and graphics.  For the cafeteria, a new graphic wall uses images from the MOSI archive to tell the story of historic food brands which began their life in Manchester.

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A residential scheme by SHH’s Interior Design & Decoration Department has been featured on architectural & design website SHH | Camden Apartment | arthitectural.com The apartment was designed for a well-travelled, professional couple in their 40s, who wanted the space to reflect their travels, particularly in Africa and Asia, with stand-out artwork and accessories from Africa and Asia set within a clean and bright overall European interiors style.

FINALIST – Best Commercial Interior Design – SBID Awards 2011 and FINALIST – Best Interior Design – Offices UK Property Awards 2011. This office interiors project is set within a 5-storey early Georgian terrace in the West End of London, for an international shipping company.  The new offices are spacious and dramatic, with cool, contemporary furniture and interventions creating a strong contrast with the building’s classic fabric, which was renovated as part of the scheme.  Major new design features include a bespoke chandelier hanging right through the three storey stair void; new bespoke furniture designed by SHH and beautiful American black walnut herringbone timber flooring, installed to restore some of the long-lost richness and quality suggested by the original building envelope.

Our 2nd ever ELLE Decoration front cover!! In 2008 we were on the cover of ELLE Deco India and in 2011 it’s the turn of the Hyde Park Townhouse project, selected for the honour by ELLE Deco Indonesia. Always a thrill to be featured by this fantastic magazine!

SHH’s stunning ‘Fitzroy Farm’ project on the front page of the Architect’s Journal online today. http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/

For any Russian speakers out there, here’s some great new coverage of Cafe Liberty from Russian online site Archilenta. Кафе «Свобода» :: Архилента www.archilenta.ru Специалисты SHH Architects реконструировали кафе Liberty в одном из старейших лондонских универмагов с таким же названием. Кафе было построено еще в 1924 году из деревянных деталей двух кораблей Флота Ее Величества – «Неуязвимого» и «Индостана».. It’s all Russian to us!

 Oh yes! We won our 4th creative award of the year at the FX Awards  – Barbican Lounge won Best Bar or Restaurant 2011. What a great ‘icon project’ it’s turned out to be. Congratulations to Helen Hughes and her team. If you haven’t been, check it out – food’s lovely too…

Here’s a link to an album of shots showing Helen Hughes from SHH at 100% Design this year, taking place on a special panel hosted by FRAME’s Femke de Wild, talking about the Barbican wins at the Restaurant & Bar Design Awards. If you were there, see if you can find yourself in the audience shots!

SHH SHH’s Susan Knof has been invited to join the IDFX magazine steering committee, yey go Susan go! http://www.shh.co.uk/design_consultants.php

Our fast-turnaround revamp of Liberty’s second floor restaurant – Café Liberty – is now hitting the press, with some very positive responses.  One of our favourites is online magazine ‘We Heart’, who commented – ‘refined, respectful to its history, but with a knowing nod to the store’s pioneering dedication to design, SHH’s Café Liberty is most definitely worthy of its lofty surroundings.’   The design for the 60-cover restaurant on the second floor of Liberty’s iconic Regent Street store sought to re-integrate the space into the style and spirit of the original Arts & Crafts building, thanks to a number of choice vintage and contemporary interventions, including reclaimed 1920s and Arts & Crafts furniture, plus bespoke-designed and eye-catching shocking pink neon ducks at the entrance to the space.

René Dekker, SHH Associate and Residential Interiors Team Leader, has been invited to be one of the key speakers at this year’s Decorex International conference and exhibition, to be held this month at London’s Royal Hospital in Chelsea.  René’s speech will look at new definitions of the word ‘sanctuary’ in the luxury residential world and will take place at 2.45pm on Sunday September 25th, the first day of the four-day event.  Other speakers in the event’s seminar programme include Nicky Haslam, Tara Bernerd, Piers Gough and Bill Amberg.  This is René’s second high-profile speech on behalf of SHH, after being asked to speak at The Surface Design Show in 2010.

Client – Goldschmidt & Howland / Savills

Project – 7 Allsop Place

To accompany SHH’s designs of four penthouses on the ‘7 Allsop Place’ scheme near Regent’s Park, SHH was commissioned by the scheme’s developer, Goldschmidt & Howland, and agent Savills to create the branding for the project, together with marketing materials including brochures and a website, based on the number 7 and the idea of ‘Seven Wondrous Reasons’ for choosing that area to live in.

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marketing materials (brochure and website)

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2D and 3D brand application                                                                                                                                                                                          branding and graphics
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The Aspen Food Company is the Tamworth Ski Dome’s main 500 sq m bar and restaurant space, with glass windows looking directly out onto the indoor slopes.  Formerly a rather tired and jaded space, the redesign capitalised on the centre’s popularity with young adults on weekend evenings and school children on trips during the week, taking a major step forward in look and feel, but on a very tight budget. Inspired by North American and Canadian ski lodges and original ski posters and icons, the new scheme is highly graphic, fun and colourful in a red, white, mustard and black colourway.

The Aspen Food Company is the Tamworth Ski Dome’s new main 500 sq m bar and restaurant space.  SHH created the new interior concept for the space, as well as all branding, using a series of large-scale icons – a moose’s head; skiers; slopes; trees and skis.  A floor-to-ceiling timber ‘pallet’ wall also has graphics incorporated into it, in the form old reference numbers, with the various pieces of wood variously sandpapered and varnished to add a sense of reclaimed differentiation.  Branding applications include the identity, signage and menus, as well as half a dozen feature walls using the various graphic icons.

A fast-turnaround revamp of the second floor café at Liberty’s world-famous department store on London’s Regent Street.  The 60-cover café replaced the former tea room on the site with a new franchise offer serving an all-day menu through to 9pm.  SHH embraced the spirit of the Arts & Crafts movement rather than its literal aesthetic for the design, which included a new feature wall with hand-printed paper by Martha Armitage, custom neon lighting (designed by SHH) and new doors and screens reclaimed from architectural salvage, backed with gentlemen’s suit fabric.