The Stoneleigh Lounge Pop-Up

A shipping container provides shelter throughout the Sydney Festival.

January 7th, 2010

As the Sydney Festival launches this weekend across the city, promising a feast of visual arts, theatre, music and dance from 9 January until 30 January, the unlikely reincarnation of a shipping container is ‘popping’ up for the occasion.

After a slick debut at Custom’s House last November, the ‘Stoneleigh Lounge’ pop-up container bar, is set to provide a laid-back watering hole for Sydney’s festivalgoers.

Constructed from a 12m recycled shipping container, this unique reincarnation was designed by architects Kelvin Ho and Jeremy Bull.

Weighing in at just over 12 tonnes – much of which is owed to the famous winery’s ‘sunstones’ which line the bar – Stoneleigh wine promises to be flowing for summer.

Spilling out of the container and onto an alfresco space, the bar will televise all the action live from College Street on the Festival opening night January 9, 2010.

The lounge will then ‘pop-up’ at a variety of locations around Sydney over the summer, including the Overseas Passenger Terminal in Circular Quay, Dawes Point, Rushcutters Bay and Kings Street Wharf’s Bungalow 8.

Stoneleigh
stoneleigh.co.nz

INDESIGN is on instagram

Follow @indesignlive

The Indesign Collection

A searchable and comprehensive guide for specifying leading products and their suppliers

Handcrafted Wallpaper

Materialised

Corsica Oak

GH Commercial

Quietspace® Panel

Autex Acoustics

Creative Spark

GH Commercial

Indesign Our Partners

Keep up to date with the latest and greatest from our industry BFF's!

Raw Edges for Established & Sons reimagine parquetry with Tongue & Groove

Raw Edges for Established & Sons reimagine parquetry with Tongue & Groove

London-based design duo Raw Edges have joined forces with Established & Sons and Tongue & Groove to introduce Wall to Wall – a hand-stained, “living collection” that transforms parquet flooring into a canvas of colour, pattern, and possibility.

Inside MillerKnoll’s Archives: Where decades fuse, design unites, and legacy unfolds

Inside MillerKnoll’s Archives: Where decades fuse, design unites, and legacy unfolds

The undeniable thread connecting Herman Miller and Knoll’s design legacies across the decades now finds its profound physical embodiment at MillerKnoll’s new Design Yard Archives.

We the Makers: Godfrey Hirst is partnering with the National Wool Museum to uncover the next big name in Sustainable Fashion

We the Makers: Godfrey Hirst is partnering with the National Wool Museum to uncover the next big name in Sustainable Fashion

A longstanding partnership turns a historic city into a hub for emerging talent

Caesarstone has just launched six new, crystalline silica-free finishes that are inspired by nature’s timeless beauty

The new range features slabs with warm, earthy palettes that lend a sense of organic luxury to every space.

Related Stories

Mafi’s healthy flooring

Mafi’s healthy flooring

It’s clear that nature has enormous benefits on children, and there’s little doubt that these extend to adults too – this drives the Mafi philosophy.

Coming full circle: Jesse Linardi of DKO

Coming full circle: Jesse Linardi of DKO

From designing and building his own house in Melbourne’s Preston, to a brand-new development going up nearby some 15 years later, Jesse Linardi of DKO has come full circle. And the appetite for multi-res has changed along with it.

Ideas

Designer Sushi at Metalab

Challenging Sydney creatives to think outside the sushi box.

News

Indesign Luminary: Ross Didier

Members of Melbourne’s design industry gathered last week to celebrate Indesign Luminary Ross Didier’s career to date

While you were sleeping

The internet never sleeps! Here's the stuff you might have missed

Enrico Taglietti’s life in design on show in Canberra exhibition

Ideas

Enrico Taglietti’s life in design on show in Canberra exhibition

A retrospective at Canberra Museum + Gallery honours Enrico Taglietti, shaping the exhibition through his own design principles.

Foster + Partners completes major commercial and transport projects in Sydney

Foster + Partners completes major commercial and transport projects in Sydney

Foster + Partners has recently delivered two significant projects in Sydney, working across both commercial and public transport infrastructure.

A Cabinet of Curiosities wins The Object at the INDE.Awards 2025

Home

A Cabinet of Curiosities wins The Object at the INDE.Awards 2025

Adam Markowitz Design, in collaboration with Simeon Dux, has been awarded The Object at the INDE.Awards 2025. Their winning project, A Cabinet of Curiosities, is a masterwork of craftsmanship and adaptability; a poetic response to shifting domestic and professional life in the post-COVID era.

Anything but standard: Kaya reimagines izakaya through organic modernity

Anything but standard: Kaya reimagines izakaya through organic modernity

Grounded by the rich warmth of American white oak, The Standard’s newly opened restaurant, Kaya, redefines the classic dining convention through a tasteful fusion of biophilic design, mid-century modern sensibility and elevated whimsy.