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Corinthian Club in Glasgow rolls out rejuvenated look

Published: 02-Sep-2010

Corinthian Club, one of the most iconic entertainment spaces in Glasgow, Scotland, has been reopened following an eight-month multimillion-pound refurbishment led by Graven Images.

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Glasgow-based interior design, graphic identity and branding specialist Graven Images has completely revamped the 260-year-old Grade ‘A’ Listed building, for client G1 Group, a Scottish licensed trade group.

The refurbished Corinthian Club features a variety of meeting and event rooms on four floors along with bar, dining and gaming facilities. The facility provides an assortment of spaces spanning 40,000 square feet, each with its own distinct character.

The renovation project involved hundreds of man-hours spent by Scottish artisan craftsmen, who meticulously created architectural aspects of the building under the direction of Graven Images’ Jim Hamilton. The work included a mosaic floor made of half a million tiles, over a thousand hand moulded acanthus leaves, fitting of hand carved panels and restoration of ornate wooded detailing.

According to Jim Hamilton, the key to the project has been working in close collaboration with artisans and skilled craftsmen to make bespoke items for the unique space. The scheme utilised Glasgow’s strong heritage of tradesmen working with raw materials and depended on traditional methods to create a modern space, while retaining the building’s original character.

Graven Images has completely renovated the building’s original features such as sculptural plasterwork and intricate gold-leaf work. The firm’s mission was to take a series of segregated spaces dating from different periods, with different original functions, and create new journeys throughout the building to encourage people to wander and mingle. The journey is enhanced by a series of rooms, which have been given their own character and appeal, from the intimate vaulted space of the Mash & Press Room at basement level to the decadent girlie ‘Boutique’ room on the ground floor. The use of materials as diverse as timbers cut from old whiskey barrels, brass, moulded and cast concrete, cut glass and heated and pattered corian add to the rich mix of textures and visual surprises throughout the building.

In keeping with the spirit of the Corinthian Club, Graven Images has commissioned bespoke features including a mural of the streets on the walls of one room by Sunday Herald illustrator Adrian McMurchie, and Nichol Wheatley’s mosaic floor, which is an enlarged part of a Union Bank of Scotland note. In addition, a series of specially-commissioned photographs by Vogue photographer Peter Lavery adorn Charlie Parker’s, the Corinthian Club’s Piano Bar.

A feature staircase has been re-introduced to connect the Tellers Bar & Brasserie with its domed ceiling to the basement floor of the building housing the Mash & Press Rooms. This helps in flooding the cellar space with light. Cantilevered balconies have been added to extend the first floor banking hall creating ‘viewing galleries’ and a bar space overlooking the Gaming Rooms, to draw people upstairs.

Built by David Hamilton in 1842 on the site of the 18th century Virginia Mansion, the Corinthian Club is one of the Glasgow's most elaborate and richly decorated buildings both internally and externally. It originally housed the Glasgow Ship Bank which was extended and embellished with superb sculptures and decorative features. In 1929, the building was converted into judiciary courts - one of the UK's finest Victorian interiors had many of its finest features hidden from public view behind false walls and ceilings. In 1999, G1 Group painstakingly restored the 'Grade A Listed' building to its former splendour. The work included the reconstruction of the Roman Doric pilastrade and the restoration of the elaborate cornicing, sculptural plasterwork, free-standing classical figures and extensive gold-leaf work.

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