Pasture
Birmingham
Malting
Wide Plank
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Pasture
Pasture's Gothic Revival interior begins with Malting and Kearney oak Chrisp + Waterhouse drew on Birmingham’s Victorian Powerhouse heritage, incorporating quatrefoils, fleur-de-lis motifs and bold prints into Pasture’s largest restaurant. Malting Wide Plank and Kearney Narrow Herringbone establish a richly textured foundation for the fire-led dining concept. Ted Todd’s leisure specification consultant worked with Chrisp + Waterhouse to assess the visual and performance requirements of the restaurant. The final specification combined two FSC-certified floors with hardened-lacquer finishes suited to frequent spills, regular cleaning and intensive footfall.
- Project type
- Leisure
- Location
- Birmingham
- Featured product
- Malting
Chef Owner Sam Eliot launched the first Pasture restaurant just six years ago and, in that short time, he has dramatically expanded his culinary empire to seven premises in Bristol, Cardiff and, now, Birmingham.
With its emphasis on fire-based cooking, Pasture offers an elemental dining experience that complements the restaurant’s ethos of sustainable working practices and supporting local suppliers; the restaurant’s food is organic, native and has a keenly defined provenance.
The interior design agency behind Pasture Birmingham, Chrisp + Waterhouse, is, like Pasture itself, a relatively new venture, established in 2022, and consequently brings a fresh and exuberant energy to the enterprise.
Sophie Chrisp and Emily Waterhouse have both previously applied their creativity and enthusiasm for interior design for the Jamie Oliver Restaurant Group, and Sophie shares her knowledge and passion with the next generation of designers as Assistant Professor of Interior Design at Northumbria University.
With a brief to create an extension of the Pasture brand but to enrich it with local character, Chrisp + Waterhouse took inspiration from Birmingham’s ‘Victorian Powerhouse’ heritage and drew deeply from Gothic Revival and medieval architecture, employing fleur de lys, quatrefoils and bold prints.
When it came to the foundational canvas for their design, the floor, Chrisp + Waterhouse approached Ted Todd, the luxury wooden floor specialists with three decades of knowledge and experience to counterbalance the youthful zeal already in abundance.
We had already successfully deployed our insight and mastery on a diverse range of bar and restaurant projects, including the £1m transformation of a pizza restaurant to the ‘oriental melting pot’ of Glasgow’s exclusive Zhima; The Alchemist in Edinburgh, home of ‘the masters in the dark arts of mixology’; Six By Nico, Manchester, the brainchild of award-winning chef Nico Simeone; and, most recently, Skof, Manchester, created by Great British Menu winner, Tom Barnes, to deliver ‘great food and great vibes, in a casual and beautifully designed space’.
Working with Ted Todd’s expert leisure specification consultant, Chrisp + Waterhouse selected two floors. The centerpiece was Malting Wide Plank, a characterful nature-grade European oak, with proudly displayed knots, sap and colour variations creating an arresting undulating effect. To partner with Malting, a rich, dark-toned oak with a brushed surface and no bevels was chosen, adding a hint of modernity. Both floors are finished with a hardened lacquer, giving a deep lustre as well as providing the extra-wear, splash-resistance and easy-clean properties essential to a restaurant floor.
Robert Walsh, founder of Ted Todd, said, “We’re delighted to add Pasture’s latest and largest establishment to our extensive portfolio of top-tier dining destinations. Their commitment to sustainability and provenance reflects our own, with both floors being FSC® certified, ensuring the wood is harvested sustainably and in a manner that protects indigenous people and forest workers.”
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Architect: Chrisp + Waterhouse
Photography: Stevie Campbell
Malting up close
Malting is a nature-grade European oak floor with knots, sapwood and expressive colour variation. Its wide planks have an undulating texture and a hardened-lacquer finish that creates a deep lustre with added wear and splash resistance.
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