MAD Bars House

August 11, 2021

YOD Group completed the design of a six-storey venue with a unique concept that is reflected in its interior in Lviv, Ukraine.


MAD Bars House gathered 5 bars and restaurants under one roof. The higher the floor, the higher the alcohol percentage in beverages they serve.
The building is located on the pedestrian street in the historical center of Lviv. The interior of MAD evinces respect for local culture and craft traditions. This is a story about coziness, liquors, jazz, pleasures, and magic.
Every floor of the venue is a different bar, but all of them share a common color palette and stylistics. The designers left some brick walls partly uncovered to highlight the value of the XIX century building. To pay the tribute to the footwear workshop that had been located there a century ago, YOD Group made shoulders from wooden shoe lasts and wrapped all banisters with leather.



The designers manifested the idea of increasing the degree of alcohol with every floor by the design of the staircase. Every landing of the stairs has a mosaic pixel art that shows what alcohol percentage is inherent to a particular floor.

The experience starts the Varvar Pub on the first floor where wi find the wine and exquisite meals, and a cozy bar with signature cocktails and local liquors under the roof. There are screens with sports broadcasting and a long wooden bar counter without any joint. It is made from the oak that used to be timber joists about 150 years ago.



The second floor hosts the Win Bar, the branch of the self-titled bar in Kyiv. Here, you can see custom-made glass lamps, vintage Bauhaus chairs, and high shelves with wine bottles from all over the world. One of the walls there is decorated with wooden casting molds bought from a local glassmaker's workshop where the designers also ordered custom-made decanters for the restaurant. Above the round table, there is a pendant chandelier shaped from vine shoots. The tribute to the architecture is the top part of the arc dome cased in glass.



On the third floor, there is the Wona restaurant with its open kitchen as the stage for gastronomic shows within arm’s reach from the client. The interior is pure and clear: light wood, wight tiles, dimmed light.



All the fourth floor is segregated as a big kitchen where all dishes for all the menus for different floors are being cooked.



The Buzz Bar is a classical American bar with a square counter in the middle of the hall of the fifth floor. It has a stage and a DJ place. You can see an artistic pattern on the carpet and rich light reflects on the relief steel sloping ceiling.



On the sixth floor, there is the Molfar Bar where you can try Ukrainian bar mixology, which ingredients were prepared in its own laboratory from local herbs and plants. Its interior consists of some dark glass bottles, deep lounge chairs, an open fireplace, shadows, fragrances, a chamber-like atmosphere, and an erotic pattern on the bathroom walls.




"We have created not just a venue, but a new unique restaurant format. It is possible to adjust MAD Bars House to different scales, regions, and cultural features. It is a place where bars perfectionists that are mad about their work are gathered. Local, top-grade, uncompromisingly best."
Volodymyr Nepiyvoda, Co-founder of YOD Group and MAD Bars House


Every of MAD venues is like a puzzle which consists of other smaller puzzles. All the design solutions and details there have human scale and work as a background for a unique visitor experience. Everything is designed to engage a guest explore floor by floor and find their own place inside that buzzing beehive.



Address  Shevska St, 10, 79000 - Lviv, Ukraine
Photography  Yevhenii Avramenko
Interior Design  YOD Group

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