PLASTOLUX “keep it modern” » THE BOOK CLUB - Shai Akram & Andrew Haythornthwaite

There are so many cool and clever design elements to discover at the Book Club. Designers Andrew Haythornthwaite and Shai Akram were invited to help transform the space, “We didn’t want it to feel like a brand-new bar,” says Haythornthwaite. “We wanted it to be one of those places that seems like it’s always been there but you just haven’t noticed it.” Take a look at that ceiling covered in light bulbs and how cool is the table that continues right through the hole in the wall. Images by SYLVAIN DELEU. More after the jump

The result is a kind of high-design rec room. The pair packed the space with elegant quirks, like a ceiling covered with 23,000 individually suspended lightbulbs. “There are so many amazing places around here,” Akram says of the Shoreditch neighborhood. “You need to have something that will set you apart.” Beyond the bulbs, the pair repeated simple elements throughout the interior. Just inside the entrance, the wall is peppered with houseplants, each mounted in its own terracotta pot. In the game room, a custom Ping-Pong table is accompanied by a wall of paddles, and one end of the reading room is stacked high with secondhand books.

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