The centre piece of the space facing out onto Basil Street in Knightsbridge is an organic, hand-sculpted chandelier that spans a curving bar and visually connects the bar with its environs.
The design began with Sybarite Architects conceptualising and capturing the four heartbeats of Moët: Pleasure, Prestige, Place and Philosophy. These relate to the four colours: red for Pleasure, gold for Prestige, white representing Place and black as “inked” in their philosophy. The grand gesture is the chandelier, a 21×5 metre structure, that hangs from the ceiling, made of nearly 60,000 disks of degrade golden metal disks and 240,000 brass rings.
This dramatic feature immediately begins the Moët & Chandon experience with a magnetic ‘wow’ moment, uniting the champagne bar and the beauty offerings in this Harrods space together – it stretches the whole way over the department. Not only this, but the elegance of the design ensures the seamless coexistence of the two brands of Moët & Chandon and Harrods in one location. The chandelier is reminiscent of the great futuristic designers of the past: Paco Rabanne and Pierre Cardin.
Manufactured and installed by umdasch The Store Makers to a design by architectural studio Sybarite, the Moët & Chandon Champagne Bar at Harrods is a contemporary take on the heritage of the Maison. The 34-seat bar itself is the welcoming centrepiece, a curved shape echoing the contours of the land where the champagne emanates: Epernay; the terroir and the clay are embodied in the base and the bar top in different forms. It is manufactured in glass fibre with a textured application, a brushed brass bullnose curving around the whole bar completed by a chalk-like texture beneath the glass.
