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WorkPlay Focus HBG
"NOTES FROM THE BAR"
a conversation with Gabrielle Maser
Aloha! Gabrielle here to take another look at design and how it works with bar and restaurants specifically! This month’s focus is a project near and dear to my heart as I got to be a part of the design team. The challenge was to to take a pre-existing co-work space and make it in to a premier craft cocktail bar. The space has some amazing benefits passed over from the co-workspace such as a one of a kind mural painted by the leader of POWwow Honolulu, Jasper Wong and four unique office spaces to be developed. The location is in a happening part of town, Kaka’ako, Honolulu and is perfectly set up between all the going ons but still has a little mystery as it is on a block with no other bars or late night business. The feel is an oasis in the middle of the madness completed by the an outside Garden Bar area already starting to bloom with moon flowers and other herbs and plants planed for the near future.
The first challenge was to define the space and outline of the two wells and add the bar top in. The space was divided in to the outside Garden Bar, the Main Floor, the banquettes by the bathrooms are in the Study and the four offices were given names, themes and unique spirits to feature VIP room specific craft cocktails menus. The four rooms are the Peacock Room featuring Agave Spirits, the Parlor featuring Absinthes and Amaros, The White Room featuring Gin and Vodka and the Whiskey Library stocked and poured by Workplay’s own whiskey consultant. The rooms each feature comfortable seating and can be booked out for food and beverage minimums all through the day for meetings in the daytime and cocktails at night.
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