Mr Fogg's | d-raw

Charlie Gilkes and Duncan Stirling of Inception Group came to d-raw with the brief of turning the existing Brutons Bar into the living room of the fictional character of Phileas Fogg, the main character in the 1873 Jules Verne novel ‘Around the world in eighty days’.

The challenge of this project was to produce a convincing environment depicting the life of Phileas Fogg in his home without making it look too ‘set design’. The customer is encouraged to stay and experience the same delight and enthusiasm for travelling as Jules Verne’s novel did for generations.

D-raw cooked a late 19th century interior by stripping back the existing bar into a large room, increasing the ceiling height and dressing the existing walls and columns with Victorian panelling and a large library wall. A central fireplace, a bar, a Victorian cornice, ceiling rose and a herringbone floor where installed.
All the space was rewired to provide power to traditional lighting in order to recreate the grand living room of the period.