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Introducing

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FIRA BEACH CLUB

PHUKET. THAILAND

Project

A new Beach Club from A to Z

Location

Phuket, Thailand

What started as a branding challenge snowballed into everything. We’re talking furniture design, sourcing materials, interiors, lighting, menus, signage, web, even the uniforms. Somewhere along the way, this project fundamentally pushed the boundaries of what we are capable of as a company.

Strategy & Direction

Name & Brand Definition

Interior, Furniture & Lighting Design

Sourcing 

Uniforms & Styling

Finding the Core Brand idea

The first time we stepped into the venue, we were taken aback by the incredible view stretching out ahead of us. The crisp blues and rocky bay reminded us of the simplicity usually found in Mediterranean Islands.

Creating the concept

In the months that followed, we created a slice of Santorini in Thailand, designing a full day experience encompassing life most simple pleasures. A club inspired by timeless Greek sun drenched vistas best admired from the coastal hills.

Choosing the name

It had to be Fira, not only the capital of Santorini, but a word that holds many more supporting meanings across different languages and cultures.

Designing the experience, from Sun to Dawn

After a deep dive into the needs of the different customer groups, we created a set of experiences crafted to meet each and everyone's needs

From the direction of the food and drinks, ways to spend the day chilling or rejoicing, to the type of services that would make them most welcome.

Our favorite part? Diving into the Sunset experience. As shades of colours fill up the sky, creating an atmosphere of warmth and togetherness where every individual feels a genuine sense of belonging. 

Defining how to celebrate being here and now, providing an experience that embraces the beauty of shared connections.

As a collective establishment, FIRA hosts a high end restaurant KIPO, and cocktail experience DOXA which we also created alongside the process.

Our design for KIPO Restaurant offers a unique luxury experience that can be enjoyed separately or as part of a whole day.

Elevated above pool, the concept for DOXA is an otherworldly cocktail experience to rival global cities.

Developing the space to tell the Brand Story

From concepts mood boards...

...to 3D renders...

Including furniture & decorative design as well as sourcing

Design, Source, QC. Repeat. For a full deep dive on the furniture design, and how we save $100,000 for the client, there is a news post here.

Luxury double sun lounger - 2 pax
Luxury beach club cabana - 6 pax
Day bed food table with integrated logo
Alcove party sofa with storage, power and towel racks - 8 pax

Building a brand is like growing and apple, everything else comes before the fruit.

Visual identity as the Storyteller

It's all in the details

High End Food & Beverage branded applications

At this standard of hospitality, nothing is left unthought of, from custom embroidery to choice for fabric for the table napkins to menus that a easy to navigate and invite to trying more all the way to plate ware direction and even bill holders.

Here also, everything needs to be considered with the upmost care, from design the concepts all the way to QC-ing the production.

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Custom Towels, napkins and more

To finish with a soft touch is always appreciated. We made sure to take care of the design and sourcing of most pieces too. Produced in high quantity, they come cheaper than you’d think.

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Final looks: from overall presentation to Imagery style

Besides assisting the team with marketing collaterals, our role also includes the styling and presentation of products served to guests, then all wrapped up in brand training and photography guides.

Uniform design

A team that looks good in what they wear feel confident in their service and show your standing. From materials to colors and hierarchy to operational constraints, there is quite a lot to consider when deciding on the team’s every day wear.

Lastly, brand guidelines and guardianship

No one-fit all SOPs here, only pure, highly drinkable, brand juices.

Brand guidelines convey a variety of information and tips about your brand, useful both internally to your company or organization and externally to your affiliates, partners, and customers. Although there is no industry-wide standard for what constitutes a brand standards document, the most notable organizations use brand guidelines as a tool to help everyone understand how to represent their brand.

Good guidelines connect different aspects of your brand, such as your logo, colors, and typography, to form a cohesive identity. 

Great guidelines are highly useable, both to for you to check that anything you do is on brand but also, to create anything new in the future that you didn’t know yet you needed when they were written!

And when it was all done, it was time to celebrate!

Feeling festive & wondering what’s on at FIRA yourself? Have a look here. Oh and yes, we did the website too! 😉

Would you like Ben, Justine and team to create a unique, highly relevant brand that stays true to your story?

Get in touch with us and find out more