Hospitality · Brand Identity

The Chap

A proper public house, built for the regulars it hasn’t met yet.

Location
Public House
Classification
Public House · Hospitality
Partnership
Brand Identity Partner
Tenure
Est. 2022
01
The Mandate

A public house with the character of a place that has stood for decades.

The Chap opened with a singular ambition: a public house that feels like it has always been there. The brief was not a logo. The brief was an entire character. A name, a crest, a verbal register, and the aesthetic governance that holds the heritage across every pour, every board, every regular.

HAUS OF SÔS was engaged as Brand Identity Partner before the doors opened, and has remained the house’s primary creative engine since.

The Mandate · In Orbit

The atmosphere, before a single line was set.

MoodGolden hour
MoodCobalt light
MoodPalette
MoodMateriality
MoodSet styling
MoodTexture
MoodAtmosphere
MoodMarble & brass
MoodCabana light
MoodSunset
MoodTerracotta
MoodBouclé
MoodCitrus grove
MoodLimewash
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02
The Identity

The system the floor runs on.

We built the full structural identity: the wordmark, the color world, the typographic register, and the verbal architecture the floor uses to greet a guest. Every seasonal program, every collateral piece, every social frame draws from one master brand book.

The aesthetic governance is what keeps a house that fills every night feel like it never changed hands. The character stays intact whether it is opening night or year ten.

DropColor world
DropIconography
DropType system
DropLogo mark
DropPhoto direction
DropArt direction
DropWordmark
DropMaster brand book
DropTone of voice
DropVerbal architecture
DropGrid system
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Season 01
Engaged before opening night · still the creative engine
Faster seasonal programming · we own the source files
Zero
Brand drift · the character we created stays protected
The Artifacts

Everything the brand world is built from. Scroll to fly through.

DropRooftop photography
DropSocial frame
DropWordmark
DropSeasonal campaign
DropMenu design
DropSignage
DropHero film
DropCocktail / merch
DropLogo mark
DropCollateral
The Brand World
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Always Be Saucy.

The creative ethos powering HAUS OF SÔS · EST. 2016