An inner-city public house across three floors of a historic 100 year old flour mill, the Flour Factory fuses together a New York deli with a Spanish Bodega cocktail bar.
The interior was designed by the owner Andy Freeman who says the raw beams and great street frontage were a bonus.
Appreciating it was a large “factory” he tried to make it feel a little warmer and more intimate yet staying true to the “Flour Factory” theme.
The heritage listing of the building made the construction / design a little harder than usual and Andy comments that lateral thinking was required at a few stages.
The large Queen Street windows screamed for a huge bar/feature to be installed in them along with a ground floor charceuterie and pizza kitchen for the restaurant customers to enjoy. Top floor is a function center for 300pax with a rooftop bar “the Sherry” that will open at the end of spring.
Andy loves working with timber buying two old jarrah trees from local WA and getting them milled into 40mm slabs to use for the thirteen metre bartop, shelving, tables and pizza kitchen bar top.
A contemporary angle within the space was desired hence egg yolk yellow was chosen as the brand colour and peppered throughout the space.
Elements that tie the concept together include having the Flour Mill on the ground floor for the customers to see and also the large suspended gold leaf domes in the main bar – customers love them.
Lighting is the most important element to Andy, creating a warm feeling in a potentially large cold space. This was achieved through filament globes and gold leaf domes. There are LED backlit bar shelves and LED underneath the bar counter.
Special features include the timber stack used on walls and along the entire bar (Cedar and laminated timber), Jarrah panels on all floors adds to the warm textures plus the hand made 10 person jarrah slab tables are a great feature.
The signage is striking lighting up the street and is very different for CBD Perth.
Perth Audio Visual are the prefferd installer who made modifications to the existing Bose system.