Fresh from picking up the Best Restaurant Design gong at the 2015 Eat Drink Design Awards for Beccafico, Matt Woods? latest project, The Rabbit Hole - Organic Tea Bar, reinvents the tired & clichéd teahouse concept.

© Dave Wheeler

Architects: Matt Woods Design

Location: Redfern NSW 2016, Australia

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Dave Wheeler

Interiors: Matt Woods

Styling: Lucia B

© Dave Wheeler

Fresh from picking up the Best Restaurant Design gong at the 2015 Eat Drink Design Awards for Beccafico, Matt Woods? latest project, The Rabbit Hole - Organic Tea Bar, reinvents the tired & clichéd teahouse concept.
© Dave Wheeler

The design begins by taking advantage of the former industrial sites inherent architecture. Concrete floors are polished; herringbone strutted timber ceilings are unearthed; original brick walls are revealed. The softening of this masculine architecture is achieved through the white washing of these newly exposed elements, & through the addition of enlarged northeast facing windows, which allow light to flood in to the interior.

Floor Plan

The Japanese art of Kintsugi (which means to join with gold, and is a celebration of the beauty of imperfection in ceramic objects) forms the foundation of the new design elements. This is most app...