‘Bandol’ Restaurant & Bar in London’s Chelsea by Kinnersley Kent Design.

Bandol, a new restaurant on Chelsea’s Hollywood Road, delivers the cuisine of rustic southern France from within a warm and contemporary environment – featuring copper, distressed oak, steel, concrete, brick, smoked glass and artful lighting, as well as a large central olive tree – designed by one of London’s most prestigious and innovative design studios, Kinnersley Kent Design.

The intimate, 70-cover restaurant, measuring 200 sqm over two storeys, is made up of a ground floor bar and dining area, with a kitchen, restrooms and back of house space on the lower-ground floor.

The restaurant’s exterior fascia is a re-working of an existing Victorian timber shopfront, protected by Conservation Area status and now re-painted in a mid-grey tone with a hint of blue. As customers enter the space, they are greeted by two feature areas – the bar to the left, lit by a long display of 24 glass pendants spaced out in different sizes, lengths and colours and a series of four tables to the right, made of cantilevered, L-shaped copper panels which continue as far as one metre up the wall and are lit by bespoke bare-bulb, copper pipe pendant lights.

“The aim with Bandol was to continue with the urban design of our sister restaurant Margaux, while making it lighter, airier and bringing in some natural elements to reflect the outdoors feel of Provence. The challenge was how to combine the urban and the rural and still keep it authentic and harmonious,” explains the client and owner Sylvia Kontek.

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[Photography by Kate Berry.]