Giger Bar

A Giger Bar is a bar themed and modelled by the Swiss artist H. R. Giger. There are two Giger Bars: the first, [http://www.hrgiger.com/barmuseum.htm The Museum HR Giger Bar] , is located in Château St. Germain, Gruyères, Switzerland, which opened on April 12, 2003; and the second is the [http://www.hrgiger.com/barchur.htm H.R. Giger Bar] , in Chur, Switzerland. There was a third Giger Bar, located at The Limelight in New York City, but when the Limelight was closed, the Giger Bar was shut down. In a bit of urban myth it has been told when the Giger bar closed in New York, an employee stole one of the $30,000 chairs and the chair has never been recovered.

A fourth Giger bar, one that Giger dissolved his involvement with after facing frustrations with Japanese building codes, was located in Shiroganeidai, Tokyo, in the late 1980s. Giger had wanted private booths that functioned as individual elevators which travelled up and down the interior 4 stories of the design. This design was problematic given restrictions caused by earthquake resistant engineering.

The interior of the bars are themed along the lines of his famous biomechanical style as shown in the Alien films. The roof, walls, fittings and chairs are all modelled by the artist and fit into the same designs as seen in the films he designed, notably "Alien". The prominent high-backed chair design was originally intended as a Harkonnen throne for an abandoned Dune film project.

External links

* [http://www.hrgigermuseum.com/ Museum HR Giger] Official Museum Website
* [http://www.hrgiger.com HR Giger's official site]
* [http://www.gigerfilm.com Official site for the documentary "H.R. Giger's Sanctuary"]