SHH Revamp Russian TeaspoonArchitects and designers SHH have completed a bold and striking new design concept for Russian tearoom operator Teaspoon, with the first outlet to house the new design now open in the new-build O'Key shopping mall on Balkanskaya Street in southern St Petersburg.
Teaspoon is an existing, 6 year-old and 70-strong Russian chain of tea and pancake houses, based mainly in St Petersburg and Moscow region and sited in high street and hypermarket locations.
The Teaspoon offer is based around a range of speciality teas, along with savoury and sweet pancakes with hot and cold fillings and a small range of side orders, such as soup and salads.
Each pancake is made to order and so the client brief asked to underline the theatricality of the preparation process, whilst customers await their order.
The new design also had to encapsulate a broader offer including coffee, cakes and also draught beer (as the operator had become newly licensed), created as a separated offer with a dedicated till and aimed at different customer timeslots in the day and evening.
The new 300 sq m space, on a corner site of the hypermarket, had a natural sense of theatre with an exceptionally high 6m void below the beams (and a further 2m above) and existing industrial-feel exposed ceilings, with enough volume to allow for an interior treatment of strong colours and dramatic design features.
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