25 April 2023 – The World’s 50 Finest Bars has at present unveiled a brand-new award that may have a good time the perfect in bar design – The Bareksten Finest Bar Design Award. Judged by an esteemed panel of hospitality design specialists, bars from wherever on this planet are invited to submit their venues for consideration from at present. Entries will shut in June and the winner shall be introduced at The World’s 50 Finest Bars ceremony in Singapore on Tuesday 17 October 2023. Bars can nominate themselves on the 50 Finest web site.
The Bareksten Finest Bar Design Award was created to reward bars throughout the globe for considerate and acceptable design and can transcend fashion and style to hit touchpoints of accessibility, sustainability and appropriateness for its market. Every entry shall be judged on six key pillars, together with innovation, aesthetics, accessibility, ergonomics, ecological compatibility and emotional quotient.
Mark Sansom, Content material Director for The World’s 50 Finest Bars, says: “Every year, we attempt to develop The World’s 50 Finest Bars ecosystem. In 2023 we’ve chosen to launch the Bareksten Finest Bar Design Award, which is the 50 Finest model’s first foray into design. To assist us do that, we’ve consulted with six of the best minds in international bar design, who shall be our judges for this award. As it’s open to any bar, wherever on this planet, we hope to see some brilliantly designed bars that we’re not but conversant in thrust into the worldwide highlight.”
The six internationally famend judges from the world of hospitality design are:
Alia Akkam – A local New Yorker, skilled drinks and design journalist and self-confessed Europhile, Alia Akkam has referred to as Budapest dwelling since 2015. She is a contributing editor at Beverage Media and Hospitality Design and contributes frequently to Architectural Digest‘s AD PRO vertical in addition to ICON, OnOffice and Barron’s PENTA publications. Akkam has an affinity for writing about cocktails and bars, in addition to interiors, journey, meals and tradition. In 2020 she revealed Behind the Bar: 50 Cocktail Recipes from the World’s Most Iconic Inns and has adopted that up with the 2022 launch Behind the Bar: Gin. She can also be an Academy Chair for The World’s 50 Finest Bars.
Anirudh Singhal – After serving to launch quite a few trend-setting eating places and bars, Singhal is now the person behind Speedx, a agency constructed to design hospitality venues from the bottom up on the ideas of ergonomics and luxury. Now, Speedx has constructed over 500 bars throughout India, together with all the nation’s entries on The World’s 50 Finest Bars and Asia’s 50 Finest Bars rankings; they’re the most important bar design and construct firm within the nation. He has just lately launched Haus of Bars by Speedx, a web based retailer giving the general public entry to professional-grade gear to create the final word dwelling bar.
Bethan Ryder – With over 25 years’ expertise in design, interiors and journey journalism, Ryder is an knowledgeable in what makes an amazing bar. Now the chief editorial director on the main international pattern forecasting company WGSN since 2020, she has beforehand held senior editorial positions at Elle Ornament, Wallpaper* and Telegraph Luxurious and has contributed to quite a few titles together with Sunday Instances Model, The Guardian, Inside Design and the Night Customary. She has additionally edited 4 books on bar, restaurant and membership interiors for Laurence King Publishing, frequently chairs talks on design and hosted the Home of Tales podcast collection.
Paul Semple – Semple is one among two masterminds behind the hospitality-focused inside design studio MSDO, based in 2020 alongside his lifelong collaborator Matthew Shang. With over 20 years of expertise working around the globe, together with over 5 years main the worldwide hospitality group at multinational structure agency Hassell, Semple has been primarily based in Singapore since 2004. He has overseen and led design tasks starting from opulent retail areas to large-scale hospitality venues, metropolis inns, small resort properties and award-winning bar tasks. Semple’s client-focused, intimate and joyful creations cement his place as an trade chief in hospitality design.
Scott Baird – Baird is a San Francisco Bay Space native and a hospitality veteran of the area. After years behind the bars of a trio of lauded venues within the US, he based the artistic company Rococo Cantaloupe, which is constructed from the bottom as much as “make drinks, throw events and create enjoyable”. His firm has been behind the profitable design revamp of many bars throughout the US, equivalent to Zeppelin and Moonshot in Nashville. Since 2021, he has owned two bars within the US, together with his sights now firmly set on designing and opening a 3rd bar in Mexico Metropolis sooner or later.
Shaun Clarkson – Clarkson has headed up his personal eponymous London-based design company for over 32 years, working solely in hospitality, throughout the spectrum. Identified for his variety of tasks and for his vivid color palette, Clarkson has been concerned in model improvement for the drinks trade, most notably working with vodka and Champagne manufacturers, creating occasions round luxurious launches. He additionally has a wealth of expertise as an operator, proudly owning bars, cafés and ‘home-tels’ (a few of the UK’s most iconic fantasy vacation houses).
Stig Bareksten, Founder and Grasp Distiller of Oss Craft Distillery, makers of Bareksten Spirits, says: “We’re happy to sponsor this award since design has all the time been an vital ingredient for Bareksten: once I launched my model, my intention was not solely to place all our efforts into enhancing the ingesting expertise of our prospects, but additionally to impression them visually with our design. Creativity is important in our work and the extra you handle to incorporate it in all parts which might be a part of it, the upper impact you generate. In the identical means, I think about {that a} bar shouldn’t solely focus its creativity to the drink proposal however to the entire setting that hosts the expertise, certainly the bar design. That is the explanation why I imagine that Bar Design must also be recognised.”
Any bar can self-nominate for the award and there’s no restriction on how lengthy the bar has been open. All entries shall be judged anonymously. Entries open on Tuesday 25 April and can shut in June. Bars can enter for the award right here.
The winner shall be introduced at a dwell ceremony in Singapore on Tuesday 17 October alongside the countdown of the checklist of The World’s 50 Finest Bars 2023, sponsored by Perrier. The ceremony shall be broadcast dwell to a world viewers who usually are not capable of attend in individual. Bar and cocktail lovers are invited to affix by The World’s 50 Finest Bars Fb web page and 50 Finest Bars TV channel on YouTube.
