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The speakeasy under the bookshop. A dark wood bar with a black top and leather stools on a brass foot rail, mirrored back shelves of bottles under a scallop-shaped Deco mirror, a pressed tin ceiling with bronze lights, and a black and white hexagonal mosaic floor. Green leather booths with marble tables and pleated lamps, an upright piano, and on the far wall a bookcase door standing open onto a lit stone stair.

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The speakeasy

The secret. You pull a book in the library, a bookcase swings, and a narrow stair drops into a low, golden, jazz-age bar.

The card

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The speakeasy

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The notes

rendered

1920s Prohibition. Basement under the bookshop, about 7 × 6 m. Reached through a sliding bookcase and a stair; a back door leads to the wine cellar.

Palette: Dark walnut, Polished brass, Bottle-green leather, Ivory, Black lacquer.

materials

  • Walnut panelled walls with a band of antique mirror at head height
  • Pressed tin ceiling painted deep bronze
  • Black and ivory hexagon mosaic floor
  • Bar front in fluted walnut with a brass foot rail and a black lacquer top

furniture

  • Curved bottle-green leather banquettes in two booths
  • Six walnut bar stools with brass footrings
  • A small upright piano in the corner
  • A brass drinks trolley and low marble-topped side tables

lighting

  • Low table lamps with pleated silk shades
  • A Deco mirrored back bar with bottles lit from below
  • Brass picture lights over a few dark oil paintings

practical

  • The bookcase door needs a heavy-duty concealed pivot hinge and a hidden book-pull latch
  • Basement ventilation and a second exit through the wine cellar passage for fire safety

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Photorealistic interior architectural photograph of a secret 1920s Prohibition-era speakeasy bar in the basement of a private house, about 7 by 6 metres with a low ceiling. Dark walnut panelled walls with a band of antique mirror at head height, a pressed tin ceiling painted deep bronze, and a black and ivory hexagon mosaic floor. A fluted walnut bar with a black lacquer top and a polished brass foot rail, six walnut bar stools with brass footrings. A Deco mirrored back bar with bottles softly lit from below. Two curved bottle-green leather banquette booths with low marble-topped tables and table lamps with pleated silk shades. A small upright piano in the corner. In one wall, the back of a bookcase door standing ajar onto a narrow stone stair. Golden, low, intimate light. Style: high-end interior photography, rich and authentic. Avoid: gangster costume props, neon, branded bottles or logos, people, text.

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The speakeasy under the bookshop. A dark wood bar with a black top and leather stools on a brass foot rail, mirrored back shelves of bottles under a scallop-shaped Deco mirror, a pressed tin ceiling with bronze lights, and a black and white hexagonal mosaic floor. Green leather booths with marble tables and pleated lamps, an upright piano, and on the far wall a bookcase door standing open onto a lit stone stair.
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