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queenstown public house
Photos by Carly Ealey
> San Diego and New Zealand share a
temperate clime and a love of the outdoors, so
it makes sense that restaurateurs PJ Lamont
and Matt Baker are determined to bring
aspects of the kiwi culture they love so much
into their projects. The first to accomplish
that was last year's Raglan Public House
in Ocean Beach. For their latest venture,
Queenstown Public House in the city's Little
Italy neighborhood, the duo returned to local
designer Michael Soriano, who says that
he and his junior designers, Alina Leyton
and Dustin Towery, put a lot of thought into
making sure each pub has its own identity.
"We don't want to go overboard with a
generalized, clichéd New Zealand," says
Soriano, founder of Onairos Design. "The
social character and physical traits of each city
will determine our design cues." So while
Raglan is a surfing town, with Queenstown
the designers looked towards its Gold Rush
history, positioned on Lake Wakatipu, that
made it a key transportation and commerce
center.
The lake's role in the city's history is subtly
referenced in the light blue tiles that form
the backbar; a Maori adage that basically
suggests "we're all in this canoe together" is
etched onto the mirror. After opening up the
space to the second floor, the team recognized
that it'd be the perfect place to suspend a 16foot canoe they found two years earlier at an
architectural salvage shop.
Still, the designers didn't hesitate to play
with popular New Zealand notions. Take
the island nation's preponderance of sheep,
for instance. In a separate space called the
"parlor"-part of a meticulous restoration
undertaken by Soriano and his team of the
1905 historic house in which the pub is set-a
local artist crafted the wooly critters from
bailing wire and cotton fluff. They were
then suspended, upside down, from a ceiling
covered in faux grass. Keeping with the rural
theme, the designers converted old metal pails
into light fixtures. "We didn't want the parlor
to be overly proper," Soriano says, "so this
lightens the mood.
"Our primary goal throughout the
property," Soriano continues, "was to create
a playful experience for the guests." That
mood, he adds, "goes along with the fact that
Queenstown is best known as a mecca for
extreme sports enthusiasts."
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