Interior design

The brief Swansea Council invited experienced interior design companies to tender for Reimagining the Central Casual Area of Swansea Market, a key anchor for Swansea City Centre’s retail offer. The Market helps to differentiate Swansea from other city centres and had been voted Britain’s Best Indoor Market in 2020. The outline brief was to create…

Set in the heart of the seafront hotel strip, our clients recognised the potential of turning this traditional hotel into a premium grade boutique offer, appealing to a new, more affluent audience. An obvious feature of what must originally have been a substantial domestic residence was the wide variety of room types, ranging from large…

A large global pharmaceutical group wanted to enhance their staff food offer at their research & science park. The Nucleus Unit is a completely new facility installed in part of the main building, located adjacent to the reception area. The menu includes: Barista served premium coffee Artisan sandwiches, pastries etc. served hot & cold Soups…

For interior design the creative process can be divided into 4 stages: preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification. For Tangent these are realised as: – Careful gathering of information and clarification of the client brief, combined with a detailed site survey The use of hand-drawn plans and sketches to illustrate our initial proposals Development of these…

We worked with Parker Roberts and a multidisciplinary team on this coffee counter for the new UK HQ of a multinational telecoms business near Bristol. Supported by a small food preparation area behind the counter, the unit provides an all-day service, offering breakfast, light lunches and afternoon appropriate snacks. This café/lounge provides a central hub/meeting…

As part of a general refurbishment of the whole office building, a completely new kitchen and restaurant was required. Working closely with the in-house team, and Parker Roberts, we produced the master plan of the whole facility and followed through with the fully detailed design of the kitchen and front of house. The restaurant has…

Having worked on many McDonald’s stores in the UK, we worked with Parker Roberts to refurbish the UK HQ staff facility at Finchley. The scheme incorporated an Aroma coffee counter and by engineering the space we were able to provide a venue for a variety of office and informal meetings throughout the day. One of…

Our brief at this iconic location was to restore the hospitality and events areas in the Clubhouse, allowing the Brooklands Trust to further develop this revenue generating aspect of their activities. The approach we adopted was to draw inspiration from the wealth of heritage that is associated with this historic venue. We harnessed state of…

A major UK property consultancy completed the total refurbishment of their Cambridge Headquarters building in late February 2018. As part of this project, Tangent were involved with Parker Roberts at an early stage, consulting on the design and layout development of the servery, associated kitchen, and hospitality pantry. Located in the staff and visitor café area…

Scene of many of The Beatles’ later and most acclaimed recordings, this charismatic and now iconic studio tasked us, working alongside PRDP, with the complete refurbishment of its artists’ and staff restaurant and bar. The brief called for an adventurous design and we delivered in style, with an innovative concept and refit that was excitedly…