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Out of the blue. Talbot Designs ensures O2 customers are sitting pretty

Dublin’s newest hot-spot, the Blue Bar at The O2 Centre, is the uber-cool place to see and be seen. Guests who have already enjoyed the splendours of the stylish Blue Bar will no doubt have marvelled at one of the key features – a series of seating pods suspended over the main floor area.

The creation of these six bubble cabins, formed from clear PET G, was the result of precision work by bespoke plastics fabricators based in London, Talbot Designs.

The project managers, Walls Construction of Dublin, commissioned Talbot as it is one of the few companies in the world capable of creating work with such precise curvature that the parts not only fit but, in the unforgiving bright blue light, also look perfect.

Commenting on the project, Chairman of Talbot Designs, Charles Woolff, said: “The simple solution would have been to go for the easy option and create flat panels to create a hexagonal shape. But the architectural and interior design firm, Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture of New York, are perfectionists and were insistent on curved panels. This was why we were brought in. We completed a demanding and difficult task within a tight deadline and created, I believe, a stunning and beautiful job. The architects were aware of our acclaimed work for the Longchamps store in New York and so were more than happy that we had become involved. It seems that if designers and project managers want their seemingly impossible conceptions realised, they know that Talbot Designs is the place where, if it can be done, it will be done”.

Sean Karns of Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture said: “The work had to be completed on a very tight schedule with an extremely low tolerance for error, which Talbot Designs met unwaveringly.”

Pictured: (above) the Blue Bar in Dublin’s O2 showing Talbot Designs’ seating pods. Photographs by David Churchill.
(Left) Snippet taken from "Night magazine".