The dark colours make the relatively large space feel intimate and unpretentious– and reflect the environment of the crabs (dark murky seas).
The red highlights accents in sprinkler pipes / lamp shades and leather to chairs represent red crabs and meat. All light fittings were custom designed – either modeled on crab pots using fine materials (in the main dining room), or are in a style reminiscent of the art deco era (bar upstairs).
Chophouse offers the highest quality produce from our land and seas. The food, the space and even the staff are in step with the dining concept.
The interior reflects the habitat of the primary produce and is a combination of dark paneled wood & muddy
painted walls, highlighted by bright red accents visible in sprinkler pipes, occasional lampshades and subtle
details in the bathrooms.
Colour palette has been carefully chosen - muddy walls suggest that of the ocean floor, the red accents are reminiscent of rich red meat. Custom designed light fixtures are replicas of crab pots, yet from the material palette of aged brass and bronze mesh, finished with parchment shades luxurious banquettes upholstered in aged bronzed leather, invite one to disappear into conversation – entice a sense of privacy.
A timeless space Dark chocolate stained timber to walls, with muddy painted walls –reminiscent of where these beautiful creatures are pulled from. The depths of the ocean, hidden and mysterious. Rather like the patrons, who seek a little privacy from the city utside. Diners can come to escape – to lose themselves in the rich interior.
Upon walking in to the space, one immediately feels secluded from the frenetic pace of the city. One sinks
into comfortable banquettes, obscured from the outside world. Despite its size, through the dark colour palette and rich use of materials, the restaurant maintains its intimacy. There are a number of private spaces one can retreat to, but it is hard to chose a favorite place to dine – the cavernous wine room, the private dining rooms or just take a seat along the 12m art deco bar
The restaurant is a timeless space. The existing steel framed windows of the restaurant were paramount to the overall design – a steel framed grid has been replicated throughout the restaurant thus combining form & function. The expanse of the dividing wall between the kitchen and the dining room is the strongest example. Whilst keeping a sense of
transparency, it allows the functional space of a kitchen to be sectioned off from the main dining room,
enticing ones inquisitiveness to partly see thru the steel framed windows into the working kitchen, yet
maintaining a sense of privacy through the use of reeded glass.
The steel grid has been repeated in various locations but in differing materials; kitchen wall, iron framework
of the staircase, the grid of the crab pots light fittings, even the paneled walls in the private dining room and
the timber brick bar front express this geometry.
Art deco trimmings reflected in the light fittings & furniture. The design of which were influenced by another era, with its nickel plated sconces, schoolhouse pendant lights, and even the bar itself with its beveled edged detail to the marble top and timber brick face . The stools are reminiscent of New Yorks Chrysler building.
Expanse of a 12m white marble bar studded with art deco stools, with original schoolhouse pendant lights
reminiscent of another era.
Mens Bathrooms: walls clad in black high gloss bevelled tiles & old newspaper print. Low slung antique deco lights.
Women’s bathroom is sexy and moody, created by a seemingly naïve black wallpaper with rich red orchids.
The room accented by red pleated shades on antique oval sconces High gloss dark painted timber panelled walls studded with iron wall sconces & goat skin shades. Natural goat hair carpet.