Left Bank’s contemporary personality is reflected in its varying interior designs, with a seamless variety of locations each conveying its own individual style and mood. Its ambient lounge atmosphere, chilled music and waterfront location is guaranteed to set the right mood for a great night out.
A free-flowing atmosphere offers the ability to flex and encompass every social occasion from weekend brunch through midweek lunch to an intimate evening tryst.
The warm glow and buzz from within makes for an inviting retreat from bustling city life. A place to relax, watch the world go by and take the time to indulge in one of life’s many pleasures.
An 11 metre long golden glow onyx sharing table is the feature of the bar along with warm ambient lightening provided by 354 Fibre Optic lights, Apendant Formosa lights and a fabulous oversized, modern edge chandelier that greets dinners as they arrive.
Comfortable lounge areas spill out onto the terrace, seamlessly integrating indoors & outdoors. A confident cosmopolitan edge, hints at international influences, entwined with a strong grounding of local inspiration.
In brief, Left Bank Melbourne needed to retain the Left Bank laid back and stylish identity we created in the UAE but translated into the Melbourne market. This has been created through theatrical and domestic design details, with light and scale playing the leading roles.
The external terrace has been design to create a comfortable lounge environment with low level black
As you enter, the bar area is dominated with an internally illuminated honey onyx bar counter and 13 meter long mirror finished rococo styled feature table, that creates a sexy amber glow during the evenings and luxurious fully upholstered chalk white leather arm chairs and bar stools. A feature fire place recessed within a colossal gray tinted mirror, enclosed within a chunky gold gilded frame dominates the far wall. The walls and column casings are finished in an iridescent copper flock wall covering with contrasting off white wall lights enhancing the dark tones of the space. And finally the exposed structural ceiling is finished with a warm dark charcoal paint finish, tinted gray mirror applied to suspended ceiling rafts and large scale off white pleated shade chandeliers.
The lounge areas have domestic touches through the use of bespoke L shaped sofas upholstered in beautifully rich charcoal velvet with varying sized custom made gold and crimson scatter cushions and enclosing to create private areas with full height iridescent bronze sheer curtains. The tinted gray mirror ceiling rafts are suspended over each of the individual seating areas with copper leaf pendants imported from Italy located over each of the glossy wenge finished tables.
The VIP area has a fully upholstered charcoal velvet ribbed oval feature wall which blends beautifully into the fixed seating, tinted gray mirror on opposing walls to create an infinity mirror and suspended copper leaf pendant lights.
YSI Professional System Design and Integration were called into design and install the audio system.
The space is setup as four Zones so that levels can be set according to location. Dining sound levels are low with some added warmth in the EQ and the Bar has more volume level with slightly different EQ
and so on.
Due to constraints imposed by building management, it was a challenge to achieve a reasonable uniform sound around the space.
“We could not locate loudspeakers closer than three metres from the finished wall surface running adjacent to the Yarra,” explained Richard Hallam, managing director of YSI. ” In addition, we could not locate loudspeakers on the walls as there weren’t any near where we needed the sound to be taking into account the above limitation.
“The walls in any event were glass and its hard to keep cables tidy over glass. The ceiling in most locations were Mirror, so cutting for loudspeakers would be tiresome, costly and the finished look
would not be in keeping with the rooms design.”
The solution was to have loudspeakers hung on pendants from the concrete ceiling/structure.
The loudspeakers chosen for this project were Bose DS100F which provide 160 degree dispersion.
These were set at calculated distances apart and drop from the concrete ceiling relative to FFL. This allowed YSI to get the sound to disperse under the floating ceiling which is where the majority of customers eat and drink without the loudspeakers being overly visible.
The are three Bose MB4 sub-bass loudspeakers flown in the air, distributed to give some strong sub-bass without the sound travelling structurally through
to the next tenancy and above.
At the sound pressure levels that are played all seems to work well.
There is an audio input point in the room for a DJ to plug in and can be selected to go anywhere at any controlled sound level. This input has a good quality outboard Compressor Limiter in circuit to help to prevent Digital Clipping in the control system, this provides for the mixer with the Hot Outputs!