Funky new champagne bar at The Loop.
At Hong Kong’s Cristal bar every wall, ceiling and floor is covered with fantastic surreal mythological creatures with futuristic colors that populate the mind of the graphic designer Katrin Olina, making the bar as one big mural, where the visuals are completely unbroken.
The main effect of the wrap-around graphics can be seen as a dematerialization of the space, adding to the dreamlike atmosphere.
Colors ebb and flow to accentuate the bar’s spatial division into four areas. Where the areas meet, the different colored graphics overlap in a fluid transition.
The bar counter-top incrusted with almost 300,000 Swarovsky cristals illuminated with multicolored LEDs is equally fanciful.
The imagery in the bar is like a mesh of stories where everyone ca interpret it how they want.