As an artist and spatial designer, why leap into F&B?
“For the previous 15 years I’ve been working my very own spatial design follow designing loads of F&B retailers, from the early days of Jigger and Pony to the present Park Bench Deli. I’ve at all times seen music, meals, tradition, and design as all a part of one ecosystem. Primarily, it’s all decided by areas and the way an individual makes use of the house. And clearly, the music, the meals, drinks, and all the things else.
How typically have you ever been to an area the place the meals is nice, however the soundtrack is s**t? Or vice versa. There’s hardly a spot that truly will get it proper: from the house, to the design, to even the way in which you sit. It’s actually about problem-solving, so it isn’t a giant leap to F&B from design and music as I see them as the identical factor. It’s additionally at all times been a little bit of a dream and problem for me personally to open an area the place I can actually management and create circumstances for individuals.”
Why this music-bar idea?
“I needed the house to actually really feel such as you’re strolling into somebody’s lounge. Heat, informal, no frills. We have been trying on the panorama of all of the several types of F&B retailers and areas in Singapore — whereas they’re all very refined and polished, we thought one thing various was missing.
In case you go to someplace like Tokyo, Melbourne, and London, there’s at all times these types of pockets of areas which can be slightly below the radar, however nonetheless very wealthy and heat in what they’re attempting to do. We have been actually simply attempting to move that form of expertise again to Singapore.”
What would you like individuals to anticipate after they come to Offtrack?
“One thing unusually acquainted but in addition not. They need to really feel transported into a wholly totally different place. It could possibly be in Hackney, London, or Shimokitazawa in Tokyo. I designed the facade to be reasonably obscure and translucent so it feels extra hidden away from sight. It’s one of many explanation why I selected this shophouse: it has a sunken form of recessed entrance which provides to the sensation of detachment we’re searching for.”
Supply: Her World
