Project Information
Opened in December 2014 inside AFI Palace Cotroceni, Winston Smoking Lounge was designed as a multifunctional space, relaxation and leisure for smokers, bar and café at the same time.
Inspired by the atmosphere of the 60 bars on US Route 66, the designer Mihai Popescu of Twins Studio proposed a concept full of color and light made entirely of HI-MACS.
Owners space wanted a material that meets several requirements of design, and functionality at the same time: visibility for the brand Winston with the specifications of brand book, mechanical resistance, easy to maintain, thermoforming material, translucent allowing connections invisible one-piece.
HI-MACS Bar - Monolithic piece, one-piece, with some curve, which was possible due to materialulu combines invisible and being thermoformable .For the colors were eligible for use 3 colors, Ivory White, Blue Mazarin Sky Blue.In front bar and a showcase presentation is embedded JIT products made of HI-MACS Lucent Opal backlit LED cold light temperature.
HI-MACS cigarettes exhibition - Element placed behind the bar, and follows the general shape of the bar colors: HI-MACS thermoformed CNC machined from Mazarin and lucent blue opal lighting also. Cigarette packs are exposed pusher system.
HI-MACS tables - Design eclectic art-deco coffee tables in colors Ivory White and Blue Mazarin made with CNC technology and thermoforming.
Signage elements -intreaga signage was designed to highlight the strong brand identity Winston brand book.Utilizand complying with the requirements of common industry advertising material, forms curved, one-piece translucent and would not have been achieved in Because of technological limitations of these specific materiale.Toate these properties are acrylic composite material.
- Project Winston Smoking Lounge
- Location AFI Palace Cotroceni Bucharest, Romania
- Design Mihai Popescu, Twins Studio
- Fabrication Atvangarde
- Photo credit ©Stelian Popa