Project Team
design: Projects of Imagination
Suppliers
furniture: Thonet, custom design by POI
lights: Euroluce
upholstery: Contemporary Leathers
wall graphics: Spud Hibberd
Mr Tulk, a café set within the confounds of the State Library of Victoria, plays extensively on the reading room theme. It’s namesake, Augustus Henry Tulk was the library’s first Chief Librarian.
The long space with high-ceilings is flooded with light from a succession of elegantly arched windows and is divided into two areas. The large communal table at one end is surrounded by bentwood chairs hand dipped in red paint, bespoke reading lights, and a book
This interior, encompassing huge, wall-mounted, anglepoise lamps and a central communal table with centrally mounted booklights, makes you feel as if spreading out the newspaper is really valuable study.