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The Fat Duck Melbourne: Design Insights

The document provides details about the experiential design of Heston Blumenthal's The Fat Duck restaurant in Melbourne. Some key elements include: - Guests enter through a dark corridor that uses flooring tricks to make the space seem compressed. A television at the end plays footage of the kitchen to surprise guests. - The dining room is dark with purposefully downlit tables to emphasize the dining experience. Upholstery and carpet are a deep purple velvet. - In the center is a large sommelier table with undulating waves replicating folded cloth, made of molded resin. - Lighting is positioned to accentuate the white tablecloths and create drama.

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The Fat Duck Melbourne: Design Insights

The document provides details about the experiential design of Heston Blumenthal's The Fat Duck restaurant in Melbourne. Some key elements include: - Guests enter through a dark corridor that uses flooring tricks to make the space seem compressed. A television at the end plays footage of the kitchen to surprise guests. - The dining room is dark with purposefully downlit tables to emphasize the dining experience. Upholstery and carpet are a deep purple velvet. - In the center is a large sommelier table with undulating waves replicating folded cloth, made of molded resin. - Lighting is positioned to accentuate the white tablecloths and create drama.

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Experiential

Design
VISHI BANSAL
The Fat Duck, •Location-Melbourne
•Client- Heston Blumenthal

Melbourne •Year- 2015


•Firm- Bates Smart
Surprise & Delight
•On entering the restaurant, guests travel more than ten
metres up a gently sloping ramp in a dark corridor.

•Due to tricks in the flooring, the space seems to compress as


guests walk up the ramp. This compression of space is
heightened by a cunning “doorway” at the furthest end.

•The doorway shows a busy kitchen in action, but as guests


approach closer it becomes clear the doorway is in fact a
small television screen playing footage of the kitchen staff at
Bray.

• The ramp journey concludes with a door sliding open to


reveal the host desk and dining room.
•While it is most definitely rich and sumptuous, the fifty-five-seat
The Fat Duck Melbourne is decidedly dark, playing on the idea of
chiaroscuro – the art of contrasting light and dark.

•In the dining room, clothed tables have been purposefully downlit
to emphasize the dining experience.

•The effect is best viewed at night, where the tables seem to hover
in the space. Chairs have been upholstered in a deep-purple velvet,
to match the carpet.
• Luxurious plum velvet on dining chair upholstery (Blackberry
Wine by Wemyss, The Selvedge Group) is matched by royal purple
velvet carpet pile (Brintons) to add warm dimensions to the rich
palette.
•At the centre of the dining room is an expansive sommelier
table. Made from foam-coated resin, the table has undulating
vertical waves, replicating the folds of a tablecloth.

• Its oversized folds are expertly moulded resin-coated


polystyrene, the work of local props maker Stage One.
The back wall is flanked by an in-progress jigsaw puzzle of Blumenthal himself. At the end of their fifteen-course, six-hour culinary stay, lucky diners
receive a piece to add to the puzzle. By the end of the six months, the mural is complete.

The full picture will be completed over six months, to reveal Heston in the centre of a whimsical tableau.
Ceiling detail incorporates lighting that has been positioned to
accentuate the white tablecloths and add drama.

Lighting is positioned to accentuate the crisp white tablecloths and


produce a dramatic effect of light and shadow. “The whole thing was
about the table as theatre, and food as its presentation,” Copolov
explains.
Thankyou

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