Cornus
Belgravia

The centrepiece of the dining room is the bespoke walnut banquette — a continuous run of deeply grained joinery that curves at both ends and runs the full length of the room. Bespoke interior architecture in the truest sense: an object that could not exist anywhere else. The material-led palette draws on mid-century European dining traditions — terrazzo floors, sheer curtains diffusing the natural light, walnut joinery throughout. Blue line-drawing artworks give the space an art-led sensibility without weight or pretension.

The space planning creates genuine variety across 70 covers: the main dining room with its banquette and round tables, a counter facing the kitchen for a more immersive experience, and a private dining room — olive walls, honey tones, a single long table. Each space distinct; all three unmistakably the same room. The ambition was to hold a Michelin-starred experience in a space that feels like a neighbourhood restaurant — ambitious without being intimidating, elegant without being formal.

The brand identity was developed alongside the interior. The logo draws on Cornus, the dogwood shrub — translating the plant’s form into a mark that reads as contemporary across menus, stationery and digital. Space and identity conceived from the same brief, at the same time.

The Ice Factory at Eccleston Yards began as a working industrial building in 1830. Day Studio’s adaptive reuse interior design worked with the shell rather than against it — preserving the building’s industrial scale while introducing the warmth of a considered fine dining interior. The warehouse bones are present without being fetishised. It was awarded a Michelin star in its first year.