Julie's Restaurant in Holland Park has been part of West London life since 1969. Rosanna Bossom led the most recent interior redesign, updating the ground floor dining room, bar and basement while respecting the character the building had accumulated. Our commission was a family of bespoke tables — brass martini tables, red lacquer dining tables, glass-top side tables, and a champagne table.
Each piece was resolved in a different material to serve a different purpose. Brass for warmth and intimacy at the bar. Lacquer for colour and presence in the main dining room. Glass where visual lightness was needed. Together the table family reads as a coherent suite rather than a collection of individual pieces.
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The martini tables were the signature piece. Made in brass with that characteristic inverted-triangle silhouette, they work as side tables in the bar and champagne area — low enough to feel intimate, distinctive enough to hold their own against the antique mirrored walls Bossom introduced. The brass is finished to a warm, slightly unlacquered tone that will deepen with handling, consistent with a material that improves with age.
The red lacquer dining tables bring a concentrated colour into the main room — a deliberate counterpoint to the softer, textured tones of the embroidered leather chairs and surrounding joinery. Glass-topped tables provide transparency where needed: clean horizontal planes on slender bases that sit lightly without competing with the room's denser decorative elements.
Downstairs, the basement bar and seating areas received the same material attention. The bar was designed to feel intimate and self-contained — darker and more cocooned than the ground floor. Tables here are lower and closer together, suited to the longer rhythms of an evening that migrates from restaurant to bar.
