Lit in caramel tones, the ground floor is designed for casual groupings, featuring a long bench dotted with padded stools and drink tables. The mezzanine level, meanwhile, invites more intimate conversation with its booth seating and moody red palette. The hero of the design is its key material ingredient: epoxy resin, which is used for the bar and round tables to create a smooth, lozenge-like finish reminiscent of Burly Gin’s bottles. The bar and tables’ translucency also accentuates the golden ambience of the lighting.Creating these resin features involved precise workmanship and an element of bravery. “Using formwork, the resin is poured, cured and sanded onsite – the bar top itself was poured in place as one slab,” says Studio Plenty’s Will Rathgeber. “Resin is extremely unforgiving and temperamental – it requires experimentation, immense patience and respect. Pouring onsite means the resin is curing in a suboptimal environment, hence it requires great care and surveillance.”
