Lighting in Design Q1 2019

I nternational N ews

Over the 2018 festive season, Space Frames, a festive light installation designed by Studio Mieke Meijer, was unveiled at Coal DropYards, a new shopping and restaurant district in Kings Cross, London. Inspired by functional industrial architecture and the abandoned industrial buildings of Roy Letterlé and Mieke Meijer’s hometown of Eindhoven, the huge light installation takes cues from the arches and bold outlines of the venue itself. Studio Mieke Meijer also created the innovative super-sized modular system used to build Space Frames, a light but strong aluminium framework that’s then covered in an industrial polyester fabric commonly used in the aviation industry. Studio Mieke Meijer ’s festive light installation

There is an appealing awkwardness to the Pyramid table lamp by design studio In Common With. Felicia Hung and Nick Ozemba play up contrast, juxtaposing the slickness of a machined base with the hand-hewn rawness of a ceramic shade. Pyramid is, as Ozemba puts it, “kind of this living entity”. Its brown clay shade was originally press-moulded by hand.Working with a ceramicist through an iterative, intuitive process, the studio refined propor- tions and the clay body composition, ultimately crafting a limited run of ten pieces. But the pair wanted to offer the lamp to a wider market, leading them to produce a second, slip-cast version. Swapping out press moulding for manual slip casting maintains the shade’s natural idiosyncrasies while cutting back on materials and labour. The custom slip mix includes manganese for a speckled surface, retaining the original’s rough appearance. Pyramid Lamp: an updated take on craft

Restaurant concept builds upon the brand’s latest evolution Wild Ginger’s new Denny Triangle location in Seattle builds upon the look and feel that SkB Architects developed for the recently completed Wild Ginger at Lincoln Square in Bellevue, Washington (USA). The design captures an aesthetic that merges Asian- inspired cultural influences with contempo- rary design to create an elegant, yet casually sophisticated setting for the celebration of food and friends. volume, while at the same time catching the eye from both inside and outside the restaurant. The dining experience is height- ened further by the direct connection to the kitchen, which allows energy from the kitchen to permeate the bar area and vice versa.

Natural materials are employed through- out, including Indonesian suar wood, which is used for table and bar tops; leather seat- ing; patinated copper for wall paneling; chiseled granite tiles that wrap the kitchen area; and matte polished concrete floors. Hand-painted organic shaped graphics adorn selected walls within the restaurant. A small, outside covered patio will expand the space during seasonable weather. Roman shades along the exterior windowwalls visually ref- erence sliding screens and functionally help control light within the restaurant. Beaubien Double Shade lights by Lam- bert & Fils Studio along with fittings by Neri & Hu were also installed.

For DennyTriangle, the design continues the evolution of the restaurant’s brand, tak- ing advantage of the large volume to capture an aesthetic that’s spare and natural yet rich and sophisticated. Wood slats, turned on edge, float above the bar area to define an area within the restaurant and its twenty- foot-high voluminous ceilings. 80 handmade globe lights fromBocci are suspended above the central bar on custom steel armature that hangs from the twenty-foot-high ceil- ing above.This strong spatial element helps define the space and reduce the sense of

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