Juniper berry-blue furniture sits against blackened walls inside this cosy bar, laboratory and store that design studio YSG has created in Sydney for gin brand Four Pillars.
Four Pillars Laboratory occupies a two-storey corner building in Sydney's buzzing Surry Hills neighbourhood. It was originally built in 1939 as premises for a tea company, but has since been reincarnated as various retail and hospitality spaces.
The ground floor of Four Pillars Laboratory has a shop that sells the gin brand's merchandise
The building now houses a lab, store and bar for gin brand Four Pillars.
When locally-based design studio YSG was brought on board to develop the interiors, it set about creating a "robust yet tactile sanctuary" where visitors can comfortably sample and learn more about gin in an unpretentious environment. A short flight of stairs leads up to the gin lab
Warm materials and colours have therefore been applied throughout.
In the ground-floor shop, which sits towards the front of the building overlooking the street, walls have been loosely rendered with sand-coloured micro cement.
Cork panels line the walls of the staircase
Australian red cedar and Cambia ash have been used to craft a towering 3.3-metre-high shelving unit that displays the brand's array of merchandise.
The same type of cedar forms the lengthy service table that sits at the centre of the room. A cash register has been subtly integrated into its countertop so that, if necessary, the rest of the tab...