project: WOODCUT RESTAURANT CHARRED TIMBER CEILING
DESCRIPTION
The concept for Woodcut restaurant at Barangaroo Sydney was inspired by the owners’ (Sunny and Ross Lusted) memories of meals cooked in wood burning ovens and over smouldering coals. The restaurant has four open kitchens cooking with wood, charcoal and steam.
Loopcreative architect, Rod Faucheux, designed a dramatic ceiling-scape of heavily charred timber to complement the cooking techniques and to add to the theatre and spectacle of the dining room.
The ceiling is comprised of 350 individual MDF boxes laid out in a grid with a 5-6sqm repeat. Di Emme was commissioned by the joiners to provide the charred timber decorative finish. Di Emme artisans painted the boxes with timber cross-sections and then added the charcoal effect. They achieved a crackle effect by applying a fast-drying layer of paint over a slow-drying layer. This process was taken to the extreme to give the custom wood an authentic scorched timber appearance.
PROJECT SUMMARY
Di Emme was commissioned to create a custom decorative finish to add a charred timber effect to 350 MDF boxes for the ceiling of the Woodcut restaurant at Barangaroo Sydney. The process involved painting timber cross sections on the MDF and then applying a fast-drying layer of paint over a slow-drying one to create the crackle effect of charred timber.
client
Di Emme was commissioned by the joinery firm to provide the decorative finish.
Services
LOCATION
Woodcut Barangaroo Sydney
dATE
2021