Bar Taglio & The Exchange Building

• Details

  Built in 1930, the now landmarked art deco Exchange Building in downtown Seattle owes its name to the stock exchange that once called it home. Now nearly ninety years on, updates were needed to better serve the way today’s tenants work, meet, and socialize. The 1st Ave entry has been reborn as a social gathering place intended to blur the lines between public and private space with a new steel storefront opening to a lobby hall. An upscale, Roman-inspired bar and pizzeria known as Bar Taglio anchors the street corner space and was designed by the same team as the Exchange tenant space.

  The design of both spaces presents a contrast between the raw concrete structure, exposed mechanical systems, and architectural remnants with a refined palette of wood floors, blackened steel, wall paneling, mosaic tiles, and relaxed seating. Anchoring the restaurant is a 30+ foot long bar clad in tambour oak and walnut. Guests at the bar sit in embossed leather stools facing a graceful back wall of antique mirror, bronze shelves, marble counters, and walnut veneer walls. The overall vibe is stylish, yet casual and approachable.

• Photography

  Hannah Rankin

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