Bar Style charts the glamorous design renaissance of hotel bars and members' clubs and the way their cutting-edge interiors have helped forge a new social culture.

Until recently dominated by sexless corporate design and traditional stuffiness, hotel and members bars have responded to a backlash against homogeneity and are now the playground for innovative designers, sophisticated celebrities, and ultra-cool urbanites.

The revolution in 'exclusive' bars began with the birth of the Groucho and Ian Schrager's boutique hotels.

There is now a stunning range of intimate, ground-breaking bars -- even within traditional hotels -- that offer the fashion-savvy, post-club generation somewhere to see and be seen.

The designs of Starck, Collins, Jiricna, Conran and Chipperfield rise above the zeitgeist, providing interiors of great beauty, style, and wit.

Bar Style exams bars from the UK, USA, Australia, Europe, and Asia and the designs of Starck, Collins, Jiricna, Conran, and Chipperfield.

Each bar study is accompanied by high quality images and a full description, summing up the design, ambience, and clientele.

Bar Style is a great source of information and inspiration for your own projects.

Contents:

1. The New Wave
   • Introduction
   • The Groucho Club, London
   • Skybar, Mondrian, Los Angeles/The Shore Club, Miami
   • Met Bar, Metropolitan Hotel, London
   • Soho House, London and New York
   • Morrison Bar, Morrison, Dublin
   • Light Bar, St Martin’s Lane, London
   • MINK, The Prince of Wales, Melbourne
   • Lobby Bar, One Aldwych, London
   • Blue Bar, Bleibtrau, Berlin
   • MyBar, MyHotel, London
   • ECQ Bar, Quay Grand Suites, Sydney

2. The Establishment
   • Introduction
   • Blue Bar, The Berkeley, London
   • Senso, La Trémoille, Paris
   • The Long Bar, Raffles, Singapore
   • Commonwealth Club, London
   • Reform Club, London
   • Claridge’s Bar, Claridge’s, London
   • American Bar, The Savoy, London

3. Next Generation
   • Introduction
   • Long Bar, Sanderson, London
   • Q! The Bar, Q!, Berlin
   • UNA Lounge, UNA Hotel Vittoria, Florence
   • West Bar, Sketch, London
   • INK Club Bar, Raffles The Plaza, Singapore
   • A60, 60 Thompson, New York
   • Millbank Lounge, City Inn Westminster, London
   • Roppongi Hills Club, Tokyo
   • Post Bar, The Fullerton, Singapore
   • Lobby Bar, Hotel Josef, Prague
   • Hemmesphere, The Establishment, Sydney
   • Bar Miró, Miróhotel, Bilbao
   • Fusion Bar, SIDE, Hamburg

4. Retro Cool
   • Introduction
   • Redwood Room, Clift, San Francisco
   • Rivoli, The Ritz, London
   • Bungalow 8, New York
   • Babington House, Somerset
   • Bar Seine, Plaza Athénée, New York
   • Splash & Crash, Gran Hotel Domine, Bilbao
   • Genevieve, The Lonsdale, London
   • Hudson Bar, Hudson, New York

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