Burgundy Restaurant - wine bar & restaurant

Beirut, Lebanon

Photo © .PSLAB

Lighting Designers: PSLab

Location: Beirut, Lebanon
Year: 2010

The space was characterized with a substructure of wooden arched beams cutting through a wire mesh covering the ceiling. The setting of the space underneath the substructure was functionally divided into two sections: a bar area and a dining area. .PSLAB’s lighting intervention into the space had the dual function of highlighting the functional division of the space into restaurant and bar area as well as creates a distinguished visual signature. The lighting objects were set on two parallel axes over these two sections. Suspended from the arcs, each light object was made of a set of conical tubes conceived to fill a circular-shaped area. This deviation rendered a chandelier-like object, whose overall curvature reflects the vaulted ceiling above. The cluster of the tubes housing the bulbs created an effect of a singular light source being filtered. The entrance was lit by a set of black projectors which heads were left loose to rotate shedding light in different directions. These unique products were created out of the dialogue between .PSLAB and architects anonymes and imagined according to the physical constraints of the site.