The Ivy

The interiors at The Ivy restaurant are by Martin Brudnizki Design Studio and retain much of the original features including the wood panelling, harlequin stained glass windows and work by British artists. Contemporary elements have been added and incorporated into the new design to establish the restaurant firmly in the 21st century. A particularly noteworthy aspect of the new design is the restaurant's bespoke furniture and fantastic central dining bar.

The stone topped bar boasts beautiful lamps made by the studio's skilled team in their factory. The design brief called for "a luxurious appearance and decorative feature combined with subtle lighting." The lamp bases were cast in solid brass using handcrafted wooden moulds and the glass shades were hand cut to accomplish the desired faceted look with sandblasted internal facings to provide a soft spread of light. The bar lamps contribute significantly to this beautiful and iconic space.

The interiors at The Ivy restaurant are by Martin Brudnizki Design Studio (MBDS) and retain much of the original features including the wood panelling, harlequin stained glass windows and work by British artists. Contemporary elements have been added and incorporated into the new design to establish the restaurant firmly in the 21st century. A particularly noteworthy aspect of the new design, and one that the media has frequently highlighted, is the restaurant’s bespoke furniture and fantastic central dining bar. The stone topped bar boasts beautiful lamps made by our highly skilled team in our factory.

The brief was to achieve a luxurious appearance and decorative feature combined with subtle lighting. The lamp bases were cast in solid brass using hand-crafted wooden moulds, and the glass shades were hand-cut to accomplish the desired faceted look, with their internal facings sandblasted to provide a soft spread of light. The bar lamps look fantastic and make a great contribution to this beautiful and iconic space.

The bar lamps are a small piece in scale but a complex one in build. A wooden mould is hand-cut for each base profile, then used to cast the brass — a method that produces a softer external surface than a sand-cast equivalent and reads more like a turned solid than a moulded shell. The faceted glass shades were hand-cut from blanks rather than pressed, with the facet angles refined until the shade caught light evenly across the bar’s mixed daylight and evening conditions.

Internal sandblasting of the glass was carried out at the final stage so the light reading could be adjusted by hand — a heavier blast on the side facing the diner, a lighter blast facing the back of the bar — before the lamps were assembled and fitted. The result is a fitting that reads as a single decorative object across the central bar and resolves into individual hand-cast detail when seen from the seated dining position.