When it comes to lighting a space, do designers and their clients take more risks with retail and hospitality projects than they do with workspaces? Damen said: ‘I think it’s just a bit more regulated. T e combination of what is possible is way more advanced than when I started out. Now there is so much opportunity and that’s also why we engage way more with lighting designers now, because before it was literally just stating our basic lighting requirements. Now we need to discuss with them about the eff ect we want to achieve. It is more a case of going to a client and a lighting designer with a concept brief and working together to achieve it.’
Connor added: ‘People are a lot less nervous about the vibrancy of colour now. You see in case studies on social media how many people have multicolour ceilings or they have one colour throughout, but it’s a complete change in approach to some of these interiors. In a workplace environment in particular, you would never have done that a few years ago. It would more likely be black or white but never
‘Sometimes our responsibility as designers is to use colours that are opposite to trends in order to off er balance and create stability that is sometimes needed within society.’
Guvinder Khurana
a colour because there was always an element of doubt about having to put it back to something more neutral soon enough. Now it is viewed diff erently, seen as setting a tone or mood for the whole workspace.
‘People want the workspace to feel more like a home in a sense, and they’re doing that through colour – not just on the walls but on the ceiling too – so it brings things down and creates a cosier atmosphere. It’s a great thing to be able to do with the use of colour in a fairly simplistic way.’
Gurvinder Khurana, director at M Moser,
said: ‘T at’s interesting, but I think that there is a fl ip side in that part of the reason people are putting colour on the ceiling in offi ces is that these spaces are not transitory like perhaps a bar, restaurant or shop. People could be spending up to eight, ten or 12 hours in an offi ce, so it’s important to consider the impact this has on them.
‘What has changed – certainly over the last ten years – in offi ce design is that more and more buildings have taller ceilings, so you can weather it a bit easier and there’s a
Above Gurvinder Khurana, director at M Moser
Opposite M Moser, who hosted the FX Design Seminar at their London HQ, discussed their international projects and their use of colour in Madrid and Paris
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