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Maison Thoumieux
Maison Thoumieux
79, Rue Saint-Dominique, Paris, France
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Maison Thoumieux
79, Rue Saint-Dominique, Paris, France
With hotelier
Thierry Costes, .PSLAB has collaborated again with India Mahdavi to light the
rooms and dining area of a newly renovated boutique hotel in Paris, France. The
products, which were designed and manufactured exclusively for the hotel spaces
and Jean-François Piège restaurant, respond to the physical constraints of
the site and integrate with Mahdavi’s strong design style.
In this site,
.PSLAB’s emphasis was on the relationship between the viewer and the light
provided by the fixture, creating a specific mood that will engage the viewer
with the products.
On the hotel
room walls, India Mahdavi’s choice of strongly hexagonal embossed wallpaper
would interact strongly with any lighting fixture. There was also no
possibility of recessing the product into the walls to conceal the technical
elements of the fixtures.
In the dining
area, the hotel’s ceilings were unusually low, producing a specific design
constraint.
A product was created that could be used as a small version in the hotel rooms as a
wall fixture and on a larger scale as a ceiling fixture in the dining area, so
providing a sense of continuity.The product
was a set of three concentric curved ‘ribs’ around a central cavity, fashioned
in brass. The bulb was placed in the central cavity, and topped with a
reflector that refracted the light back into the fixture before it exited into
the space, giving a softer glow.
As the hotel
room walls could not be recessed, the products’ technical wiring was concealed
in an offset which created a gap between the product and the wall. The fixtures
could be applied at different levels and alone or in groups of two or three
according to the demands of the space. The reflectors in these fixtures were
made of perforated black steel.
A design
challenge was met in scaling up the fixtures from their size in the hotel rooms
into vast 80cm ceiling fixtures for the dining area. The black steel reflector
in these objects was not perforated, reacting to the different light
requirement.
The products
responded effectively to the constraints of the space, and also stood alone as
products which provided a sense of continuity between the small versions in the
hotel rooms and the large ones in the dining area. Overall, a sense of intimacy
and harmony was provided by the fixtures, which nevertheless provided a visual
interruption to the highly patterned interior design.
These unique
products, imagined according to the constraining physical factors of the site,
will also find life through their availability as part of .PSLAB’s products
archive, which they enter on completion.
Thierry Costes, .PSLAB has collaborated again with India Mahdavi to light the
rooms and dining area of a newly renovated boutique hotel in Paris, France. The
products, which were designed and manufactured exclusively for the hotel spaces
and Jean-François Piège restaurant, respond to the physical constraints of
the site and integrate with Mahdavi’s strong design style.
In this site,
.PSLAB’s emphasis was on the relationship between the viewer and the light
provided by the fixture, creating a specific mood that will engage the viewer
with the products.
On the hotel
room walls, India Mahdavi’s choice of strongly hexagonal embossed wallpaper
would interact strongly with any lighting fixture. There was also no
possibility of recessing the product into the walls to conceal the technical
elements of the fixtures.
In the dining
area, the hotel’s ceilings were unusually low, producing a specific design
constraint.
A product was created that could be used as a small version in the hotel rooms as a
wall fixture and on a larger scale as a ceiling fixture in the dining area, so
providing a sense of continuity.The product
was a set of three concentric curved ‘ribs’ around a central cavity, fashioned
in brass. The bulb was placed in the central cavity, and topped with a
reflector that refracted the light back into the fixture before it exited into
the space, giving a softer glow.
As the hotel
room walls could not be recessed, the products’ technical wiring was concealed
in an offset which created a gap between the product and the wall. The fixtures
could be applied at different levels and alone or in groups of two or three
according to the demands of the space. The reflectors in these fixtures were
made of perforated black steel.
A design
challenge was met in scaling up the fixtures from their size in the hotel rooms
into vast 80cm ceiling fixtures for the dining area. The black steel reflector
in these objects was not perforated, reacting to the different light
requirement.
The products
responded effectively to the constraints of the space, and also stood alone as
products which provided a sense of continuity between the small versions in the
hotel rooms and the large ones in the dining area. Overall, a sense of intimacy
and harmony was provided by the fixtures, which nevertheless provided a visual
interruption to the highly patterned interior design.
These unique
products, imagined according to the constraining physical factors of the site,
will also find life through their availability as part of .PSLAB’s products
archive, which they enter on completion.
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