SAVANNAH BEE COMPANY'S HONEY HOUSE, SAVANNAH, GA

CLIENT OVERVIEW: Savannah Bee Company's Honey
House is a unique retail experience built on education and enlightenment into
the fascinating and infinitely amazing world of honey and the honeybee. Located
in the heart of historic Savannah, it is a shopping experience that is as sweet
as Tupelo Honey.
www.savannahbee.com
PROJECT BRIEF: The Honey house has fast become
one of the most recognizable shop fronts on Savannah's main thoroughfare, Broughton
Street. With their old time charm and hive inspired design, they've transformed
their space into an alternate bee universe. But something was missing. The main
doors to the shop were regular, run of the mill metal and glass and belied the
crafted aesthetic that represents their company. We came up with a combination
of old barn charm mixed with new technology and cutting edge materials. Using
Savannah Bee Company's own broken bee hive boxes; we built a classic screen
door. For the main door we used CNC technology to carve a hive-like mullion
into River Recovery Cypress. In collaboration with Spinneybeck we used recycled,
vegetable-dyed leather and laser etched into it the Honey House logo, these
pieces were then inset into the door frame.