Macready’s

Our agile and flexible approach to the design journey, when it came to the gift shop at The Sherborne, was well received. It helped to tease out ideas and elements that founder Michael Cannon felt passionately about including. Whilst initially engaged to design and fit out the retail space, our scope on the project quickly grew, and we were asked to develop the bistro restaurant and bar known as Macready’s.

With a lifetime of experience owning restaurants and bars, coupled with extensive travel and a huge personnel collection of objet d’art the founder, Micheal Cannon, had a strong vision for the hospitality spaces at The sherborne. Our team, at Field Design, forged a collaborative and responsive design process, through a series of workshop style forums. These entailed bringing together a mix of elements from across the more standard, linear design process, such as mood boards, materials and sketches. This process had to follow a natural and intuitive journey, to enable Micheal the time to work with us and feel real ownership of the scheme. For example, when we brought more worked up visual renders to the table too early in the process, they felt too complete, where looser sketches, alongside sumptuous material sampling, evoked the right mood.

We worked closely with The Sherborne’s architects and build team, developing highly technical drawings of all the joinery elements for the bistro and the bar, that showed all the appropriate fixings, adhering to the required preservation of this Grade 1 listed building.