The Other Room is born to become one of the best cocktail lounges of Singapore. Placed under the luxurious Marriot Hotel, it will be unique in its singular approach to the cocktail discipline, serving a great variety of caskfinished spirits. lagranja Design had the pleasure of designing its interiors, aimed to embody the most classic aesthetic but renovated and twisted.

The squared space, that can be entered through both the Marriot’s lobby or the street, is encircled by curtains that help to preserve the atmosphere untouched. Once inside, the space is so to speak, divided in two areas.

At the main entrance, a black marbled bar containing two cocktail stations stand under a golden and pink brass backlighted wall-shelf. From its top, a great amount of wax-lamps specially made for this project, crown the showcased bottled spirits.

The visitor will be able to read a Harry Johnson’s inscription at the bar while seated in one of the three unique trunk handmade stools designed and brought to Singapore from Spanish woods. Following the purpose of enlarging the limited size perception of the space and creating a magical atmosphere, the rest of the cocktail bar consists of a large perimeter sofa bordered by a two-way mirror glass.

It unveils a display of carefully selected vintage glassware that together with a sum of unexpected details, touches of vibrant colors and the described custommade objects provide wonderment and surprise to the old and traditional cocktail bar appearance.

Last but not least, a large golden cocktail shaker sculpture hanging from the ceiling till reaching the floor has been placed amid the sofas to round up the sophisticated The Other Room concept.

It has also become the icon of the space’s graphic identity, also designed by Lagranja. LaGranja Design studio is characterized by their unique pieces of furniture specially designed to every single work—superb craftmanship and the finest materials are the core of their projects. In this case, pieces such as: the Hand-Carving Wooden Stools, the Shaker and the “Candle” Lamp are signature pieces to this project. The wooden stool: this piece was specially designed to this project, hand-carved in wood by Enrich Fontaner, Industrial Designer at LaGranja.

The Shaker: with its unique design, specially created by LaGranja to this project, it has become the image of this new space. This piece can be spotted by the visitor in various corners in the establishment, in some cases as a decorative piece, in others as functional—like a table.

The Candle Lamp: is a piece made out of one piece of wax. Inside the lamp, one can fill it with “lamp oil”. The candlelit gives a sense of pleasant atmosphere and when it’s not use as a lamp it gives also a charming decorative element to the space.

About laGranja

Established in 2002, lagranja is a multidisciplinary design studio created by Gabriele Schiavon and Gerard Sanmartí focusing its talent in the creation of interiors, products and ephemeral installations. After a decade, the team at lagranja remains passionate and coherent about their core ideology: making design an aide to companies and brandnames. In 2010, lagranja consolidated its growth by expanding its activity to a new office in Hong Kong.

After a few years located in La Granja street (hence the name of studio) by early 2011 they moved to a new space in a modernist biscuit factory in Barcelona. Lagranja´s work has gained international recognition and national acclaim winning prestigious prizes like the Red Dot Award (2007), Premi Ciutat de Barcelona de Disseny (2008), Premio Via (2009), IIDA Excellence Award from the Internationa Interior Design Association-USA (2009), IDEA Award (2008) and Silver Delta Award (2012).

In addition to their professional activity and as active participants of the design community, the team at lagranja participates as jury in competitions, and give lectures in Spain and abroad (Usa, Italy, Japan, Brazil, Mexico, Russian Federation…). In the past years Gerard and Gabriele they’ve been teaching at distinguished design schools such as: Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, FABRICA (Benetton´s creative research centre), ELISAVA, EINA, and IED in Barcelona. Among LaGranja latest projects, we can hightlight the Quaich bar in Singapore, Madera Service Apartments in Hong Kong, The Populist Brewery in Istanbul, the Cooking Tableware designed to Toshiba in Japan, and Nandu crockery in Spain, a design to Sargadelos.