Beit Hashekem
The sink table of the mock-up room, built around the marble
With MUZA LAB of London: a frame and legs for the sink table in the mock-up room of the Beit Hashekem Hotel, designed around the marble sink by Rokach Marble. Bronze-toned iron, a leg that flares toward the floor, and a prototype on the marble before painting. 129 rooms in the hotel, and one room where every detail was tested.
Custom hotel furniture · Isrotel · Beit Hashekem Hotel, Jaffa
Isrotel's Beit Hashekem Hotel in Jaffa has 129 rooms, and before a single detail is repeated, a mock-up room is built. The rooms were designed by MUZA LAB of London, and the marble sink was made by the Rokach Marble factory to the hotel's specification. Together with MUZA, we designed and built the frame and legs the sink sits on, so they suit the sink and the design language of the rooms.
In short: Studio Herbet planned and made the frame and legs for the sink table in the mock-up room of Isrotel's Beit Hashekem Hotel in Jaffa, with MUZA LAB, around the marble sink by Rokach Marble: an iron frame with legs that flare at the end, in a bronze tone, after measuring the sink, production drawings and a prototype on the marble itself.
The sink came first: one marble body with rounded edges, made by the Rokach Marble factory to the hotel's specification. We measured it as built, thickness, edges and contact points, and designed the frame around the marble's dimensions rather than a catalogue size.
Together with MUZA LAB we designed a leg that suits the sink and the design language of the rooms: a straight iron profile that flares at the end, like the leg of a classic piece of furniture. Each leg was cut and folded from sheet metal, then welded to the body of the profile.
Before painting we set the sink on the frame, to see on the marble itself how the leg meets the edges, how the gap under the sink looks, and where corrections were needed. Only after approval was the frame painted in a bronze tone.
A mock-up room is the room where the hotel checks every detail at real size before it is repeated. Beit Hashekem has 129 rooms, and the sink table was installed in the mock-up room against MUZA LAB's plans, so every decision about it was tested once and holds for all the rest.
MUZA LAB sent a sheet with a front view, a section and a plan of the sink corner. We turned it into production drawings: top, front and side views with dimensions, the joint detail between the marble and the frame, and a 3D model of the whole table.
The frame was welded in the workshop, assembled under the sink for a check, and went out for painting only once the marble sat on it properly. From there it went to the mock-up room, in a building that was still under renovation.
A mock-up room is the first room built in a hotel, where the hotel, the design office and the contractor check every detail at real size before it is repeated. Beit Hashekem has 129 rooms, so every decision about the sink table, its height, its tone and its connection to the wall, is tested here once and holds for all the rest.
You start from the sink, not from the drawing. The Rokach Marble factory made the sink to the hotel's specification, and we measured it as built, the thickness, the edges and the contact points, and built the frame around those dimensions.
MUZA LAB of London designed the rooms and sent a detail sheet with a front view, a section and a plan. We took the sheet and turned it into our own production drawings, with joint details between the marble and the frame, and built a prototype that can be checked by eye and by hand before approval.
Because on the real marble you see things a drawing doesn't show: where the leg meets the edges, how the gap under the sink looks, and what happens when someone leans on it. Here we set the sink on the frame before painting, and corrected what was needed before the tone was locked in.
Yes, and that is the right way. You crack the element in the mock-up room, approve it with the hotel and the design office, and only then talk about quantities. What gets solved in one room saves the mistake in every room after it.
Send the sheet, the rendering or even a sketch, and we talk for half an hour. From there it can lead to a scoping meeting, and to production drawings and a prototype like on this project.
Studio Herbet is an industrial design studio in Rehovot, founded by Idan Herbet in 2016. The studio cracks the central element of the project, from lighting and railings to counters, ceilings and furniture, for interior architects, developers, hotels, restaurants and private homes, and works alongside the architect, the carpenter and the metalworker. To the studio's home page
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