09 · Hospitality
Earling Residence
Ninety-four covers arranged so that no guest ever feels observed by more than four others.
- Location
- Delhi, India
- Year
- 2025
- Area
- 340 m²
- Duration
- 15 months
A heritage hotel needed a bar that would draw Viennese residents rather than only hotel guests — somewhere that felt private in public.
The plan was broken into seven distinct enclosures, each with its own ceiling height and light level. There is no single vantage point from which the whole room can be seen.
- Hospitality interior design
- Bespoke joinery
- Lighting design
- FF&E procurement
- Night#161311
- Burgundy#3A151B
- Amber Onyx#C08B4E
- Brass#B6945A
- Fluted walnut
- Fumed, 30mm flutes, hand-oiled
- Backlit onyx
- Miele onyx, 12mm, LED-washed
- Burgundy leather
- Aniline, hand-buttoned banquettes
- Aged brass
- Shelving and rails, unlacquered
A room too large to be intimate
The existing ballroom annexe was a single 340m² volume with a nine-metre ceiling — magnificent and completely unusable as a bar.
Seven rooms inside one
Joinery screens, level changes and dropped ceilings divide the volume without ever fully closing it.
Warm in the dark
Onyx was chosen for the counter because it is the only stone that appears to generate light rather than reflect it.
Two hundred buttons
The banquettes were hand-buttoned in an upholstery workshop in Graz over nine weeks.
Private in public
Illuminance at table level never exceeds 40 lux. Conversation, not architecture, is the loudest thing in the room.
“Covers exceeded projection by forty percent in the first quarter — and two-thirds of them were Viennese, not guests.”
- Hospitality Design
- Nesva Studio
- Operator
- Hotel Aurelia Wien
- Upholstery
- Werkstätte Graz
- Photography
- Théo Marchand
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