British designer Tom Dixon has completed the interior of the club members "and Paramount event space at the top of Centre Point tower in London.
Design Research Studio's latest project is a members club, Paramount, located in an architectural landmark with one principle asset - the view.
The concept is based on the architecture of the building using geometric and structural forms. The space is intended to work both day and night, offering exclusive environment with views of London as a dramatic showcase.
Gallery view members on the floor 33 (shown above) consists of a champagne and cocktail bar with floor to ceiling windows overlooking the city.
The floor 32 has a bar, lounge and restaurant for members and their guests (above), while the functions of private hosts level 31 and includes a zinc bar from 10 meters long (below).
Membership
As the club offers views of London all-encompassing, so that members of Paramount is reaching a wide spectrum of professional and creative industries in the city. Chaired by the Brunswick Group CEO Alan Parker and Stephen Fry, the committee members include representatives of cultures as diverse as film, law, media, academia, fashion, editorial, finance and theater . The committee is inviting people in these basic areas of life in London to join what is becoming an exclusive, but more importantly, progressive and vibrant new community of London.
Dixon oversaw the project as creative director of Design Research Studio.
According to information provided by Tom Dixon himself:
Paramount members' club, Centre Point, opens its doors;
"What a dream job ... a landmark building and mysterious as what has been discussed and debated and criticized and now celebrated and we have the opportunity to design a space that all Londoners," said Dixon.
Design
Mark Way, in partnership with Murphy Philipps, was appointed principal architectural consultant in 2006 to lead the building project from inception to creation. Mark has realized the vision of working in close collaboration with British design luminary Tom Dixon through Reaserch Design Studio, replied to a sophisticated interpretation of a raw and stripped-aesthetic that has developed in recent years.
Here, the material is held as the essential elements that are unconstrained by any excessive ornamentation or complaints you may hide the honest beauty that the end result or that could lead to a fashion statement that, by its very nature, quickly overcome. Instead, Tom offers a stunning design, bold and strong that not only the slots perfectly into the architecture of Richard Seifert, it also offers the Paramount real longevity and timeless style.
Dixon worked with leading UK-based lighting design practice GIA equation Paramount lighting design.
Mark Hensman, Director General of GIA equation says that "the biggest challenge for us was to minimize reflections in glass windows around to allow maximum views of the London skyline. When you create a lighting solution for classic design and flexible we were able to achieve a high visibility rate certainly provides the most breathtaking views of the capital. "
Bar members of the Paramount and the club, which occupies the top three floors of Centre Point in the heart of London's West End has officially opened its doors. The club's full members "lounge, restaurant, bar and private hire events, designed to provide customers with exceptional facilities, services and products in a spectacular setting, no doubt, is designed and supervised by Pierre Condou he perfected several years of experience in the Bistrot de Bruno, L'Odeon restaurant and Century Club in Shaftesbury Avenue.
By bringing together a wide variety of people to eat, drink, relax and exchange ideas, Paramount aims to
bring together a wide range of key influential communities of London. "I've always loved this central high-rise building in history. All the DNA is in London. I'm very happy to create the Paramount in the" summit, says Condou.
Centre Point
Richard Seifert's Centre Point, completed in 1966, the Paramount offers incomparable views of London through the towers and bright lights of the City and Canary Wharf in the east, the great reversal of the Thames and Westminster, South Tower BT, Oxford Street and Hyde Park in the west and Primrose Hill and the dramatic arc of the new Wembley stadium in the north. Few, if any, other buildings in the capital offer a central location, 360 degree perspective. Magnificent, but the views certainly are, there is more to this building and the Paramount project.
Dixon said: "We have come with two principles in mind, first, the view is the Paramount ... keeping light levels low and moody. So we wanted to create something that feels it has always been part of the building without being nostalgic. A short duration, self-imposed, but luckily the fashion cycle is on our side with brutality and root system architecture of the late sixties to "re-evaluated. The club interior, designed by Design Research Study with creative director Tom has furniture with classical pieces chosen by Tom and Pierre to reflect the modernity of the building.
Facilities
Restaurant .Located on level 32, Centre Point, a restaurant for members only Paramount offers a second stage no bird's eye view of London. Led by chef James O'Connor, formerly of Bovey Castle and Damien Hirst's restaurant in Ifracombe, the menu is a universal attractive offer modern British classic dishes. Paramount room private dining room is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, while the Paramount lounge membership will be open from 10 am until late Monday to Friday and from 12 noon until late on weekends serves a variety of cocktails and drinks.
Paramount different rooms and has a specific entry on the mezzanine floor level first reached by a separate outside staircase. Here, above the original 1960 terrazzo floor of black and white is an inspired Barbara Hepworth copper reception where guests are greeted by the staff of the Paramount. From here, express elevators whisk guests to attend the events to the floor 31 event spaces, which is a self-contained 4.550 square feet with a rod of 10 feet long on the west side (and, of course, sunsets London), designed specifically for private events - launches, dinners, screenings, meetings and presentations - up to 350 people standing and 160 seated. A higher level on the floor 32, is the backbone of the club members, with a copper rod as Tom Dixon, relaxed dining and sitting areas, a formal restaurant and a private dining room. Video Gallery at 33 is the top floor of the building and has a member Champagne and cocktail bar that curls around the circumference of the plant that provides ceiling windows, a full 360 degree circle .
