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The Okura Hotel, Amsterdam has recently undergone renovation
of the main Serre Restaurant and Bar and Function Suites including Grand
Ballroom.
dpa worked with interior designers RPW from London
to create a stunning and appropriate destination restaurant and terrace
beside a buzzing canal in the heart of Amsterdam. The lobby bar compliments
the new restaurant with dark tones and appropriate lighting to provide
a dramatic interior using layers of lighting from concealed linear lighting,
to low level bar and seating and pin spots to tables and decorative
screens. The restaurant was a particular challenge with a crystal clear
conservatory providing views onto the restaurant terrace which, comes
to life at night with concealed dramatic lighting from linear planter
up lighting, tree up lighting and delicate and magical copper lanterns
in the feature trees.
The Function Suites and Ballroom have had a contemporary facelift to
freshen and energise the spaces. Artwork and contrasting materials are
accented, along with a review of the energy issues by utilising low
energy light sources. The ballroom has received a huge transformation
with colour change LED coffer lighting and a magnificent feature lighting
artwork of tree crowns symbolising the trees to the landscape. The lighting
is concealed behind the 'tree crowns' suggesting the glow from a moonlit
night through trees and is complimented with dappled light to the face
of the trees from gobo projectors carefully recessed into the ceiling.
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Light, Right Place, Right Time" |
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