Sibley Grove designed and fitted out Vintage Salt, a seasonal rooftop seafood restaurant and bar for Selfridges on Oxford Street, London — conceived as a fully circular, low-waste hospitality environment capable of transitioning between summer and winter themes without strip-out, replacement, or significant capital expenditure.
Vintage Salt sits atop one of the world’s most iconic department stores, looking out over the rooftops of central London. Commissioned by Selfridges as a destination dining experience, the restaurant draws its identity not from Oxford Street, but from the Devon and Cornish coastline — the landscape that informs Sibley Grove’s own design philosophy. Dressing pieces sourced directly from working fishermen, authentic coastal details, and the raw textures of the British shoreline gave the space a genuineness that no trend-led scheme could replicate.
The central design challenge was seasonal flexibility. Rather than designing for a single iteration — and accepting the waste and cost of periodic strip-out — Sibley Grove designed a space built for change from the outset: make the permanent elements truly permanent, and make the transitional elements genuinely easy to change. The kitchen and bar were designed to be easily reclad between seasons, allowing visual character to shift dramatically without touching the infrastructure beneath. Furniture was selected and reused across seasons and themes rather than replaced, substantially reducing carbon emissions, material waste, and capital expenditure with each transition. The timber floor was specified to be sanded and refinished repeatedly — delivering a refreshed surface without removal or replacement — and VOC-free paints allowed surfaces to be refreshed in hours rather than days.
Scope of Appointment
Sibley Grove led design and fit-out of a seasonal rooftop restaurant and bar, engineered for repeat seasonal transformation rather than one-off delivery.
Related Projects
Part of Sibley Grove’s ongoing work for Selfridges, also see Reselfridges. More Selfridges commissions available on request.
Project Delivery: 2016
Location: London, UK
