Portview Score Again with
Club Wembley Fit-Out
Portview Fit-Out was appointed by Club Wembley to
create Wembley Stadium’s new and exclusive members’
club, One Twenty.
From the beginning, Portview engaged in extensive
consultation with Club Wembley and KSS Design
Group to take the traditional hospitality experience
to a new level. The finished space is a bespoke club
that has been tailored for select members to celebrate
the best of ‘English’ in one of the most extraordinary
stadiums in the world.
One Twenty’s private entrance sees guests pass through
a sculptural oversized angular canopy. This dedicated
entry point has an air of mystique and a hint of subtle
extravagance providing the perfect arrival space for
members and their guests to enjoy.
Ascending an illuminated staircase past a double
storey smoked oak panelled wall, guests are greeted
by a visually stimulating array of colours and features
in the lounge. The unique spaces create intimate
areas and group networking opportunities, where
guests can relax amongst contrasts of light and dark
with a bold tapestry of furniture and a quirky use of
materials. Lighting is used playfully, with lamps and
hidden washes from the floor to accompany stylish
glass raindrop pendants that juxtapose the dominant
timber raft. The panelled feature wall is the stunning
central backdrop to the lounge area and includes a
recessed ‘snug’ banquette, deep pile upholstery with
recessed bookshelves where guests can browse the
famous Wembley archives.
The lounge is designed to be ‘evolutionary’, with
smaller furniture clusters and chairs that swivel for
guests to define their audience, privacy and sculpt
their own experience. Dense tones of mustard, purple
and turquoise colours are used throughout the spaces
in an experiment of the visual senses.
The bar area is the stand out feature for its scale and
presence, with a spectacular brass chandelier that
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floats up to the exposed panelled petrol ceiling. The
restaurant ceiling lattice breaks the traditional grid
system, by re-defining a new patchwork pattern that
adds originality to the environment. The movement
and energy of the game is injected with line work that
rushes across and often over sails the ceiling itself.
In the restaurant space, small, intimate dining ‘rooms’
have been created through dividing screens and
booths for different dining styles. The design integrates
sensitively proportioned TV screens to create a
personal feel and ambience. A refined and elegant
colour palette uses smoked oak, pearlised metallic,
marble, olive, taupe, purple and turquoise upholstery.
Frosted windows within the signature bar visually
connect the restaurant to the lounge.
One Twenty oozes mystic and exclusivity, re-enforcing
the privacy of the space, but playing with the sense of
movement and energy of a football pitch.