The World of Hospitality Issue 14 2016 | Page 10

10 the World Of Hospitality Seating in the restaurant and bar is a mix of bespokedesigned aged dark tan leather chairs with brass stud detailing and banquettes with smoky blue velvet backs and blue leather seats. Tables are in dark-stained oak. Tall, ribbed glass screens with inset LED lighting break up the space and create a feeling of semi-privacy. Chalk boards for specialities of the day are inset into the screens, whilst angled mirrors above the banquettes allow for discreet people-watching. Goddard lifflefair Accessories in the space refer to Edinburgh’s literary heritage and include excerpts from correspondence, set into clustered oval frames; a display of vintage type-writers and Scottish novels, as well as vintage printing press lettering, referring to the building’s very first usage – and the source of the new name – as a printing press. The design treatment for Burr & Co, where every single element is new as this was a converted and un- Website: www.goddardlittlefair.com listed space, follows a similar colourway, but includes more obviously contemporary elements, including deep blue-green ceramic tiling and a special lighting display of ceramic pendants in varying sizes in the same blue-green colourway. Flooring and wallpanelling is in light oak and the banquette seating is in blue leather. A central feature, directly below the centrepiece lighting, is a wonderful long and bespoke oak refectory bench with seats, which pivot under the bench when not in use.