Translucent onyx for Stanley’s rooftop

Hotels and Restaurants
Written By Marco Fazio

A softly illuminated onyx bar for Stanley’s rooftop at The Chesterfield Mayfair

 
Chocolate Onyx bar by stoneCIRCLE at The Chesterfield Mayfair - photo Marco Joe Fazio Creatives
 

For Stanley’s, the rooftop dining and drinks destination at The Chesterfield Mayfair, stoneCIRCLE was commissioned to fabricate and install a fully clad onyx bar, designed to bring warmth, elegance and quiet theatre to one of London’s most refined hospitality settings.

 

The bar desk features rounded corners and is clad in Chocolate Onyx across the front, side elevations and top surface. Working closely with the design team, we integrated a dimmable internal lighting system to enhance the stone's natural translucency. As evening falls, the bar emits a soft glow, revealing the fine crystalline structure within the onyx and transforming a functional hospitality feature into an atmospheric centrepiece.

 

The dimmable internal lighting system allows bringing to life the natural veins of this Chocolate Onyx bar.

 

Projects of this nature demand precision at every stage. The design required careful material selection, accurate templating, detailed fabrication and meticulous installation to ensure the onyx performed effectively, both visually and functionally, in a demanding hotel environment. The rounded detailing gives the bar a softer, more sculptural presence, while the full stone cladding creates continuity across the surface and frontage.

Our work in luxury hospitality often involves balancing craft, technology and collaboration. At The Chesterfield Mayfair, this meant working alongside designers and project managers to realise a highly considered feature that feels effortless in its finished form. Behind that simplicity lies the careful coordination of stone selection, lighting, fabrication tolerances and hand-finishing.

 
Chocolate Onyx bar by stoneCIRCLE at The Chesterfield Mayfair - photo Marco Joe Fazio Creatives
 

The completed bar brings together the natural beauty of onyx and the technical precision required for contemporary hospitality interiors: refined by day, quietly luminous by night.

 

The integrated dimmable lighting system allows the Chocolate Onyx to shift from a natural stone surface to a softly glowing focal point.

 

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 project details

  • client: The Chesterfield Mayfair

  • location: Stanley’s rooftop, London

  • material: Chocolate Onyx

  • scope: Fabrication and installation of a fully clad bar desk

  • features: Rounded corners, onyx front and top, integrated dimmable lighting

  • sector: Luxury hospitality

  • photography + content strategy: Marco Joe Fazio Creatives © all rights reserved

 
Marco Fazio

Marco Joe Fazio is CCO and director of photography at space+style™ by marco joe fazio Ltd, working in fashion, hospitality, food & drink, architecture and design.

Born and raised in Tuscany, Italy, Marco learned the rudiments of photography and the magic of the darkroom in his early school years. Thereafter, he worked in architecture, interior, and lighting design for two decades. During those years, Marco founded an award-winning architectural studio and managed a multidisciplinary design team, working mainly for fashion industry clients.

Since moving to London in 2008, Marco has been recognised as a Chartered Architect of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) while pursuing his dream of connecting the worlds of architecture, design, and fashion from the photographer's perspective.

After years of passionate dedication, hard work and professional achievements, he was awarded the Fellowship certification (FBIPP) by the British Institute of Professional Photography and won the Peter Grugeon Award for the Best Fellowship of the Year in 2016. Subsequently, he has been admitted as a member of the highly regarded Association of Photographers (AOP). 

Having achieved a stronghold in coordinated image and photography for the design and fashion world, Marco has taken his expertise into the hospitality market; luxury and boutique hotels, fine dining restaurants, and the drinks and beverage industry are all reaping benefits from his services.

Today, Marco is leading his agency in assignments in the hospitality, fashion, and design industries.

Creative photography, cinematography, coordinated images and brand marketing form the core of his services.

Thanks to more than a decade in the music industry, Marco has expendable knowledge in composition and sound engineering. That knowledge is a valuable asset in creating licensed soundtracks and magnetic sound designs for commercial productions.

Marco's passion and another branch of his business are mentoring and nurturing new visual arts talents. In 2016, he launched "telling [fashion] stories" – photography & set design workshops – and more recently, he has become a lecturer for the School of Art and Creative Industries at London South Bank University (LSBU).

The crossover between genres and industries is a peculiar and essential factor in his work, contributing to thinking outside the box and achieving a unique style rich in symbolism and content.

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