Landmark Projects
Impossible doesn’t exist
sOak London don’t simply make products, we provide unique concepts and ideas. We innovate and design from page to presentation.nWe are especially proud to present these select few projects – they are world firsts; our industry game changers…
Groundbreaking Innovation
The Zuma Zacapa Live Solera
Our custom designed cocktail installation createdfor Zuma restaurants and Ron Zacapa Rum, was installed in Hong Kong and eight other Zuma restaurants across the world.
This unprecedented system features four American oak barrels all connected to each other. The first three casks are individually flavoured allowing the Zacapa rum to trickle through the barrel system, giving the drink a unique and special taste.
Zuma’s Ritual Serve
sOak London created a smoking pyramid-shaped glass box symbolising the ‘House Above the Clouds’. This represents Zacapa’s rum-ageing facility found in the Guatemalan mountains.
Created from 3 types of wood, infilled with luminescent resin and using sOak’s unique Smokology system the serve was an instant success with both Zuma customers and the industry elite.
“These cocktails will provide guests with an immersive experience like no other, allowing Zacapa’s exceptionally deep aroma, full colour and rich flavour to be enjoyed in all its glory.” Lorena Vásquez, Master Blender, Zacapa Rum.
Full Restaurant Project
From concept design to manufacture and installation…
“In August 2018 the concept of "Jacques Restaurant” was agreed by the team. Our vision was to create a unique, upmarket, classic British dining space. We needed something that stood out from the crowd but remained authentically British and yet inviting. We chose Timothy Oulton as our preferred "ready made" furniture and lighting supplier. Timothy's products are amazing, but the steel and glass which are dominant in his pieces we thought needed balancing with the softness and warmth that only wood could deliver. We set to work searching for designers and manufacturers of bespoke hardwood furnishings and fittings. Eventually we can across sOak London. We were suitably impressed by their can-do attitude & their portfolio of amazing feature wood and artwork.
We thus worked with Rob and his team for the next year & half. We found their attitude seriously refreshing and helpful. No such thing as 'no' in their vocabulary. Their designs helped shape the very core of our project and helped us to achieve what we had envisaged in almost perfect synchronicity. sOak London have designed and fitted our walnuts bars and back bars; our private dining room table, our wall cladding and door framing, our balustrades and shelving, our oak beams; our bespoke signage, our recycled oak tables; our feature artwork; our picture framing as well as an entire range of tableware, serves, barrel agers and smokers. Mel from sOak London's design team also helped out massively with our branding and website. All work was delivered on time and exactly as per budget and agreements.
We would highly recommend sOak London to anyone looking for superb service and truly amazing unique designs. Our building would not be half as good as it is without their commitment and help.”
JACQUES RESTAURANT TEAM
KNOWLE, SOLIHULL
World Firsts
A range of whisky storage devices for the multi award winning global Black Rock bars.
The Ageing Table, London
This concept was a world first – a one of a kind interactive 18ft long English oak ageing system.The resulting piece helped to put Black Rock on the map and left social media reeling in the wake of this innovative new statement piece.
The Shishi Odoshi, Edinburgh
Popping up in Edingurgh, this perfectly balanced Shishi Odoshi Whisky Serve caused quite a stir and was as unique as it was mesmerising to watch.
The Ageing System, Hong Kong
This new take on our ageing system was commissioned by Foxglove in Hong Kong and and created from a 263-year-old oak tree sourced from the forests of North Cheshire, England.
The Ageing System, Bristol
The centrepiece of Black Rock’s space is a 6 ton, 220 year old vertical oak tree, quietly maturing a cocktail in its belly. It needs seeing to be believed.
Show Stoppers
Tasked with creating a serve for every cocktail on the menu – here are some of the highlights from The Artesian Bar at The Langham, London.
In Perpetuum
In Perpetuum is the world’s first self-agitating bartop barrel. Beautiful and hypnotic to look upon, this system cleverly agitates the liquid within and speeds up the maturation process.
Mind Your Step
Delicately created and visually chaotic, this show-stopping serve cleverly mimicked a smashed glass, complete with spilled luminescent ‘cocktail’.
Banksia Nut Serve
This creation celebrated the raw natural beauty ofa sustainably sourced Banksia Nut seedpod and juxtaposed its raw textures and organic shape with an otherworldly theatre and drama through its innovative use of dry ice and luminescent resin.