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LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL 2011
FULL HOUSE
Standing on Pentonville Road, not far from London’s King’s Cross station, The Big Chill House is the flagship bar, and permanent embodiment, of the UK’s Big Chill Festival - a trailblazer of the country’s now ubiqui- tous boutique music festival scene. After five successful years in operation, Big Chill House called upon interior designer Lucy Tauber to create a fresh look for the prem- ises that would capture the essence of the Big Chill brand. Having worked extensively with owners the Canteloupe group in the past, Tauber was given total free reign on the project and, as a starting point, went off to spend five days at the festival itself. Observ- ing the event from build-up to tear-down she was particularly struck by the way art and artworks seemed to pervade the site. Back in London, she briefed local street artists to create unique works with the same boundless spirit of the festival. When
A familiar lighting classic adds a welcoming glow to festival flagship bar, the Big Chill House.
selecting the lighting Tauber was therefore keen to include fixtures that worked with the space rather than detracting focus from the art within it. Part of her solution was to introduce Anglepoise Original1227 desk lamps to the counter that runs along the main window at the front of the venue. “The light fittings were the first things we bought,” explains Tauber. “They were really important in creating a relationship with the street and also an invitation to people to come in and people watch, or sit with their laptops to work. The Anglepoise along the front are really important to make the place feel welcoming.” In addition to the classic task lights, 12 Anglepoise Type1228 Wall mounted fixtures are placed above the back-bar to highlight the blackboard menu and several Giant1227 pendant lights are used to create an interconnected ‘chandelier’ that stretches across the groundfloor ceiling space. In a
nod to the mess of temporary cabling found backstage at festivals, Tauber has created a web of wires, seemingly connecting the fixtures together. It has the effect of lower- ing the ceiling to a more intimate level as well as allowing cabling for the speaker and projector systems to be concealed within the tangle. Most of the lighting, like the furniture throughout the venue, was bespoke or from reclaimed sources – including fixtures from London specialist The Historic Lighting Company (mondo*arc #51). The Anglepoise fixtures are the only branded products used in the new scheme, its classic shape tapping into a collective conception of familiar, industrial creativity. “The Anglepoise is the only fitting that represents all those val- ues,” says Tauber. “It’s an old-school British icon, not something that you need to stamp a label on.”
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