Hospitality

New Moon Café, Burlington VT

Light/Space/Design works closely with business owners to achieve exactly the right effect, and also assists with architectural design and detailing.

Topnotch Resort

Working with architects and interior designers, Light/Space/Design designs lighting for an open kitchen environment and to supplement dining space luminaires.

Topnotch Resort

The Spa at the Essex

Architecturally integrated low voltage lighting.

The Spa at the Essex

Soft lighting uses efficient light sources to meet sustainability goals.

Restaurant and hospitality environments are all about mood. Changing the mood with dimming lighting is, in many ways, essential to these environments. For many years, this largely eliminated energy efficient lighting from consideration, but no longer. Technology and miniaturization of more efficient sources, along with better color quality of efficient lamps and easily programmable lighting control systems are now available to those who know where to look. These technologies bring to the restaurant/hospitality market a number of excellent options largely unknown to most interior designers and architects.

Light/Space/Design understands how to create a mood with light. Here are a few hints.

Colors and textures, forms and surfaces – all affect the interplay of light. Lighting design must be completely integrated with the selection and location of design elements.
Consider both the daytime and nighttime settings, and how lighting controls can be used to adjust light scenes. Not only do night settings help convey a more intimate mood, they also save on energy costs.
Soften the effect of energy efficient light sources by using them “invisibly” in built in coves, light shelves and indirect pendants.
For long hours of cost effective lighting, use LED downlights with high quality Constant Current Modulation drivers for dimming. Utilize higher quality fixtures when possible to avoid lamp visibility, and improve light quality.
Combine light sources effectively, using incandescent sources for clarity and sparkle, and more efficient sources for ambient, coves, and washing walls with light.
Use colored light sources or filters to create elements of excitement and surprise, create an unusual mood, or simulate a sunset.
Use special light sources such as LED’sor fiber optics to create special lighting effects in the floors or star patterns on the ceiling. The possibilities with these potentially efficient sources are endless.
Custom fixtures can be designed to create very special environments, with less difficulty than you may think. Customizing fixtures can also be an excellent way of reducing energy and maintenance costs, while providing a style of fixture that completes a hospitality setting.
Beautiful, soft exterior façade and landscape lighting helps turn a customer visit into a special and unique experience.