Published on Wednesday, Oct 19 2011 by
Craftwood were approached by London based designers Blacksheep regarding the banquette seating requirements for this innovative new London restaurant. Blacksheep designed the first ever restaurant for the owners of the award winning Provençal vineyard Château du Galoupet in France. The Blacksheep studio, established in 2002, quickly won a reputation for unique, stylish and award winning designs for clients who include Hilton Hotels, Gordon Ramsay and Jamie’s Italian.
Having worked together before on several Jamie’s Italian restaurants, Blacksheep were confident that Craftwood would realise their concepts for the fixed seating, and that ultimately their client, Galoupet, would be delighted with the end result.
The new restaurant, bar and wine merchant opened at 13 Beauchamp Place, London SW3 in June 2011. Galoupet houses both public and private dining areas as well as a retail fine wine store. The venue will also showcase London’s first Enomatic® champagne machine which dispenses four types of champagne by the glass at the perfect temperature.
Craftwood worked closely with Laura Elwick from Blacksheep to develop the bespoke banquette seating requirements. The sumptuous leather upholstered seating has a stitch buttoned back, a sample of which was made up for Galoupet to view and approve prior to manufacture commencing.
For the ultimate in comfort for their guests Galoupet requested that Craftwood manufacture the seating utilising their luxurious sprung base seating system.
All seating is manufactured at Craftwood Interiors factory to the highest quality with minimal final assembly and installation time on site. This allowed the main contractor to fully finish the area prior to the banquettes being fitted by Craftwood’s dedicated installation team. Craftwood also manufactured the bespoke upholstered wall panels for the private dining room downstairs.
Galoupet believe that enjoying food and wine with family and friends is one of the greatest pleasures in life, and that their restaurant will be somewhere that you return to again and again, for the everyday comforts of something relaxing and familiar, the thrill of a special occasion or discovering something new.
Craftwood Interiors are delighted to have been involved in this prestigious project, and wish Galoupet ”Bon Chance” with their new venture!
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