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Wednesday, 18 June 2014

SEOUL SOUL

315 High St, Northcote

Visited: 7th June 2014

Design: If you have ever seen TRON: Legacy, walking into Seoul Soul is like entering, The End of The Line Club. Standing on the footpath it feels like you have stepped into the year 2020 from a 1984 vision of the future. You expect everyone to be eating capsules instead of real food. Not the case. The hot pink and yellow neon glow, the skeletal cages hanging from the roof and the full frontal glass window all work to create a sci-fi fantasy vision that L. Ron Hubbard would be proud of. Forget about super speed monorail trains and billboard sized LCD screens projecting propaganda films, this is the future right here. If you are going to do glass, go all the way. I found the extended vertical steel handle emphasised the height of the door and surrounding window. It also reflected the caged tubing structures hanging from the roof on the interior. Wether you are 6ft or a child there is somewhere to grab this handle. I like that it creates a visual loop through the glass, a metaphor for eternity. Simple, minimal and effective in gaining your attention. Normally I like a bit of mystery a door conceals to the interior, but this was like, "HERE IT IS, BABY. COME AND LOOK."I loved the reflection on the window when standing on the street. The door had a nice resistance and smooth flow on open and close.

RELAX THEY'RE OCCUPIED!!!!

Door resistance: 3

Closure mechanism: Hidden Pivot

Draft: Minimal

Squeak level: 0

Change return time: 48 sec

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PROFESSIONAL DOOR REVIEWER

Searching the world for the perfect door to eat behind.

First impressions are always important, especially for a restaurant or cafe. So many people are focusing on the food these days that I felt there was a hole in the reviews world. No one was looking at the most important thing, THE DOOR! Everyone complains when it is left open, death stares are exchange when the unsuspecting group of friends having a fun night enter the premises from the cold only to walk straight in and go straight to their table totally oblivious they have left the door wide open to allow an arctic strength gale force wind to cut through the previously warm interior. Like a scene from a western film where everyone in the premises stops what they are doing and cuts down the new comers with a deathly stare. Occasionally you will get the confident diner who gets up, walks across the restaurant and closes the door with a BANG! Just to let the new comers know they have done wrong and to NEVER, EVER DO IT AGAIN!!!!! This individual makes their way back to the table staring at the newcomers, just to make sure they got the message. The only problem is, is that 5 minutes later another group come in and do the same thing and he/she feels obliged to continually do this for the rest of the night.

Well hopefully this blog puts a light on the owners of these establishments and encourages them to lift their game and create doors that allow diners to sit and enjoy their meal, to give the diner an experience before they enter the building. It is also a thank you to the makers of quality doors who care about craftsmanship.

I have developed a scoring system based on,

DESIGN:

This is assessed by the materials the door is made from, whether the door is themed, cluttered or minimal and whether there is an element of surprise or not.

DOOR RESISTANCE: 1 to 5

1 = light push

5 = heavy push

CLOSURE MECHANISM: Manual, automatic or

hydraulic arm

DRAFT: Minimal, medium or high

SQUEAK LEVEL: 0 up to 5

0 = No squeak

5 = Ear piercing

Then the last assessment is the,

CHANGE RETURN TIME:

This is the amount of time it takes to get my change once I have given the waiter the money for the bill. Last impressions are always just as important as first.