Sector: Hospitality
Working with: Alberto Pinto Interior Design, Reardon Smith Architects, Beck Interiors
We were commissioned to develop a series of bespoke and striking glass installations as part of a complete refurbishment project of this Greek regency style five-star hotel, situated just moments from Buckingham Palace. A series of bevelled clustered pelmets and glass pilasters and capitals were created for the Belgravia private dining room. For the Celeste restaurant, a framed, moveable entrance screen along with decorated transparent centre panels for the seating screens and the wine store was installed, in collaboration with Alberto Pinto who originated the design.
All the glass in the pelmets and the various parts of the pilasters were either low iron or lead crystal, antique silvered by hand and fixed to the substrate with mirror screws and hand-made lead crystal rosette screw cover caps – over 1,000 in total. The base of each pilaster required two 90-degree mitred joints, cut through solid half circle requiring precise cutting, polishing and UV bonding. For the glass panels we developed a harp motif artwork that was etching onto 6mm toughened low iron glass using a fine multi depth sandblasting technique.
