The World of Hospitality Issue 30 2018 | Page 63

KRICKET TVC MATERIALS & FINISHES The eat-at-kitchen counter has a polished plaster finish, and topped with crème pardais marble, with 18 leather- clad bar stools. The semi-open kitchen bar sits opposite a run of rattanwork two-seater booths, similar to Soho, flanked by a blackened steel grille formed from the eponymous looped Kricket ‘K’. Kricket Soho’s Lavastone (“Pyrolave”) crackle- glazed bar-top has been replicated, but this time in a pastel mint-green hue on the horseshoe shaped cocktail bar near reception. The colour plays against the dark chocolate timber fascia below, creating an ice cream cool enticing mint-choc juxtaposition. The cocktail bar stools are also reminiscent of Soho with the Kricket ‘K’ engraved into the metal backrest. But rather than antique brass and dusky pink, as found at Soho, the stools are finished in burnt bronze and cognac leather. The walls surrounding the horseshoe bar feature a specialist hand-finished aged plaster effect, with burnished rose gold leaf accents. THE WORLD OF HOSPITALITY 61