Project Name_ SOMA Soho
Project Type_Bespoke
Client_Rik Campbell and Will Bowlby
Location_London, England
The custom double Paloma station, with integrated ice well and a 9 meter communal table, was hand finished with an angle grinder to give the unique effect. The first venture into the bar world from Rik Campbell and Will Bowlby, the guys behind the incredible Kricket restaurants, SOMA also draws its inspiration, however abstractly, from India. The drinks use strong, bold, and perhaps unfamiliar flavours to transport guests on a journey through the diversity of flavours so present on the sub-continent.
“It was a collaboration in the true sense of the word. Behind Bars not only designed, produced and installed this amazing, unique piece, but contributed to the overall aesthetic of the venue. The flushed, kitchen counter style of the bar stations and the integrated ice buckets which they suggested really are fundamental elements of what we were trying to achieve, which was a kind of otherworldly space, somewhere many people could come together and celebrate.”
— Hugh Moncrieff
