DJ booths clad in wood, metal and a giant disco ball feature in this lookbook, which rounds up nightclubs, restaurants and even a bathhouse that centre music.
With dance music culture “booming again” throughout the world, the spaces where it happens are also receiving renewed attention.
The DJ booth is arguably at the centre of it all, serving as its own mini-gathering hub inside of a larger restaurant, nightclub or outdoor space.
In this lookbook, we take a look at unique booth designs from Japan to Australia that keep people on their feet.
This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen’s archive. For more inspiration, see previous lookbooks featuring milking stools, stylish skylights and marble kitchen islands.
A semi-circular VIP area is tucked behind this metallic DJ booth in Unveiled, a nightclub located in the basement of the William Vale hotel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Bathed in blue lighting, the booth features a smooth, mirrored cladding, while the surrounding dancefloor walls are clad in a hammered metal.
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JAM Record Bar, Australia, by Akin Atelier
This bar in Sydney was designed to evoke Tokyo’s mid-century listening bars, complete with walls lined with a collection of 15,000 vinyl records.
The small DJ booth is tucked into a nook at the end of the bar, and like the rest of the interior, is clad in pink plywood.
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As its name suggests, the Oven techno club in Valencia was designed to feel like an oven, featuring red and black Alpi wood walls with a rippled burl pattern that climbs up the interior.
Other surfaces, such as the central DJ booth, were clad in stainless steel to reflect the club’s warm-toned lighting.
The Nursery at Public Records, USA, by Mattaforma
Brooklyn music venue Public Records recently expanded its Gowanus complex with the Nursery, an outdoor music venue that has a DJ booth tucked into a shipping container.
The booth’s minimal interior design was led by local studio Space Exploration, while the two, large, teal speakers that flank it were designed by audio studio OJAS.
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Bursa Bar, Ukraine, by Nastia Mirzoyan
This wood-lined hotel bar is located on the ground floor of the boutique Bursa Hotel in Kyiv.
Its DJ booth stands towards the back and is clad in the same dark wood of the surrounding restaurant, while a mossy green, latticed ceiling was installed to improve acoustics.
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Supernova, USA, by Mutuus Studio
This Seattle nightclub was built around a huge disco ball DJ booth measuring eight feet (2.4 metres) in diameter.
Covered in mirrored tiles, the booth conceals a semicircle desk for the DJ’s equipment.
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Koganeyu, Japan, by Schemata Architects
Schemata Architects added a central bar to this 1980s bathhouse in Tokyo as part of a modernisation aimed at attracting new visitors.
The bar was designed to convert into a DJ booth so the room can be used as an events space.
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A custom aluminium DJ booth stands next to the bar in this San Francisco restaurant in front of a wall of vinyl records.
“Our intent was for design, music, and the culinary arts to come together in a hub for the creatives of the neighbourhood,” said Studio Ahead co-founder Elena Dendiberi.
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This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen’s archive. For more inspiration, see previous lookbooks featuring homes, milking stools, stylish skylights and marble kitchen islands.
