Giger Bar in Gruyères, Switzerland.[1]
A Giger Bar is a bar themed and modelled by the Swiss artist H. R. Giger. There are two Giger Bars: the first, the H.R. Giger Bar in Chur, Switzerland, which opened in 1992, and the second is The Museum HR Giger Bar, located in Château St. Germain, Gruyères, Switzerland, which opened on April 12, 2003. There was a third Giger Bar, located at The Limelight in New York City, but when the Limelight was closed, the Giger Bar was shut down.
Entrance to the Giger Bar in Chur.[2]
A fourth Giger bar was located in Shirokanedai, Tokyo in the late 1980s. Giger dissolved his involvement with this location after facing frustrations with Japanese building codes and with the Japanese company behind the bar, which created the bar after only rough preliminary sketches. Giger had wanted private booths that functioned as individual elevators which traveled up and down the interior four stories of the design. This design was problematic given restrictions caused by earthquake resistant engineering. Giger disowned the Tokyo Giger Bar and never set foot inside. Within a few years, the establishment was out of business.
The interior of the bars are themed along the lines of his biomechanical style as shown in the Alien films. The roof, walls, fittings and chairs are all modelled by the artist and fit into the same designs as seen in the films he designed, notably Alien. The prominent high-backed chair design was originally intended as a Harkonnen throne for an abandoned Dune film project.
In 2014, Sci-Fi Hotel LLC announced a partnership with H. R. Giger to establish a Giger Bar in the U.S., targeting Seattle and New York among other major cities. Currently seeking real estate and investment partners in the U.S., Sci-Fi Hotel LLC hopes to announce its first U.S. location for Giger Bar and for Sci-Fi Hotel in 2014.
External links[]
- Giger Bar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Museum HR Giger Official Museum Website
- HR Giger's official site
- Official site for the documentary "H.R. Giger's Sanctuary"
- Official site for Giger Bar in the U.S.
- Sci-Fi Hotel news release