To re-brand and refurbish the hospitality area at Sandown Park Racecourse, in order to create a buzzing, high-quality bar and restaurant space. The space needed more finesse at every level - more elegance and detail with better quality materials – for an overall champagne bar feel. The space also had to be highly flexible to attract premium quality events and conferences on non-race days, whilst also ensuring the branding (covering signage, menus and uniforms) forms an integrated part of the whole experience, conceived from the outset as a family of components to ensure the same quality applied to the branding as to the interior.
The challenges were to create a sense of intimacy in a room of huge proportion and enough subtle material and design details to exude an instant feeling of quality. The programme was also very tight to miss a minimum of race meets.