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Yeo Valley Cafe
section features a winking golden cow in
glittery acrylic; a reminder of the brand’s dairy
farm origins and playful nature.
To the rear left are customer toilets, a fun
and stand-out feature, designed as ‘Blagdon
Station’ underground toilets as a link between
the London and Somerset sites, with curved
tube-tunnel corners and ‘pomegranate’ wall
tiles, sourced from H.E. Smith, the original
London Underground manufacturer.
Further details include tube-type platform
signage; a ‘priority seat’ sign above the toilet;
an ‘All Change Here’ baby change unit; a ‘Loo
Roll’ tube-style roundel; a platform-style floor
detail saying ‘Mind the Gap’ and a ‘Way Out’
sign.
A door to the right of the dresser leads to a
back-of-house area, including a changing room
for the chefs, plus food storage. From there
comes access up the stairs to the first-floor
office, kitchen and meeting room. Here, the
crittal-style of doors and windows continues,
separating the main workspace from a large
meeting area, which has a cork wall with
hidden storage behind it (there is further
concealed storage throughout), a wallpaper
feature wall, a credenza and a large timber
meeting table.
The general workspace includes sit-down
workstations and a higher, bar seating
work area for laptop work. Another feature
wallpaper area features alongside, whilst the
rest of the walls are painted white, with a rich
red stairwell – a visual link to the corridors of
the Blagdon HQ. Flooring is either an earthy
brown or orange carpet tile in the office and
meeting spaces, with a speckled, charcoal
surface in the kitchen. The upstairs toilets
also embody the brand’s sense of fun, with
black glossy tiles, black sanitaryware and a red
ceiling, accompanied by wallpaper made up of
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black and white shots of animal-faced people
pursuing leisure activities.
‘The experience of working with Phoenix
Wharf was very uplifting’, Adrian Fenton,
Managing Director, Yeo Valley Properties,
commented. ‘They really helped bring
our ideas to life and their visual concepts
transferred almost exactly to the finished
space, which we’re very happy with.’
Photography credit: Franklin & Franklin