His first purchase for this room was a 1890’s Victorian style pool table. Originally, he talked to us about creating a bar to complement this Victorian design. But he had leanings toward Art Deco and his love for the elevator doors from the Chrysler Building in New York ultimately drove the design of the bar.
We collaborated with the client’s designer, Etty Brish, who envisioned and then actualized the room’s décor. We chose veneers of birdseye maple, tamo ash, exquisite walnut burl, bubinga and ebony to lay out the Art Deco design for the front of the bar.
In the work area behind the bar, the cabinets for the glassware and stemware have doors that are made of the same curved bubinga and wenge. Even the small refrigerator’s stainless steel door was replaced with a bubinga & wenge door front. A small wooly mammoth ivory dot in the upper corner of a door marks the spot for opening with a simple touch.
The final phase of installation was of a curtain effect of the bubinga & wenge panels to tie the back bar in with the back wall.
The curtain effect and the wenge frame leave one expecting a movie projector to start a show at any time. The owner is commissioning an Art Deco mural painted in this space speculating that a stylized Austin skyline with perhaps a whimsically added Chrysler Building would be an appropriate tip of the hat to the bar’s inspiration.
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