| Copper craftsmanship for vodka bar |
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Posted: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 9:58 am
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Photography credit: Michael Franke - www.michaelfranke.co.uk
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Christopher Jenner has unveiled his new bar design for Ketel One Vodka in London. Central to the theme and main inspiration behind the project is the link to craftsmanship. This reflects both the ethics and philosophy of premium vodka making and the central design principle used by the team.
Jenner commented on the design: “This project fits perfectly with our goal of applying traditional crafts skills in ways which have yet to be explored. For the Craftsmen working on the project and ourselves it was a great opportunity to see a beautiful material used in such a uniquely challenging way. Form and structure of the bar are heavily influenced by the ancient copper distillery vats used in Holland since 1691, while the challenging space; a triangle with a concave panelled wall and glass walls on two sides, left us with few placement options.”
Rising to the challenge the Christopher Jenner team employed a five meter swoosh, which wraps the back wall facilitating the convex shape to the left and an integrated three meter hammered concave shape to accommodate the stools and service area.
Each of the stools is constructed with a complex internal structure, providing a solid surface for the labour intensive annealing and panelling process. Each stool is connected to the floor on rotators allowing 360 movement.
To construct the bar Jenner needed to qualify the organic concept model, this he achieved by feeding the organic 3D model into rhino allowing the team to check all the specifications and come up with a solid manufacturing model. The model was spliced into 200mm horizontal and vertical sections with jig joints to create a skeletal construction.
Once the bar slices were assembled the frame was covered in a fibre glass skin to provide a solid application surface, necessary in achieving a smooth result on some hairy bends.
Each copper sheet was annealed through a heating process, formed to contour and applied with a hanging rivet system, in the annealing process copper is discoloured so to achieve the final look, an intensive buffing provided a super clean surface. Over a 1000 kg of copper and 10,000 rivets were used, with two craftsmen working over a two-month process.
To follow the progress of the bar build and installation and see the project move from inception to completion, visit http://projects.jennerstudio.com/search/label/Gilgamesh
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