For celebrity chef Bobby Flay’s Bar Americain, Focus Lighting and the Rockwell Group collaborated to create a visually distinct restaurant with bold architectural elements balanced with glowing amber accents. A welcoming ambiance envelops guests, providing an intimate dining experience within the voluminous space. Sheer curtains surrounding the bar, grazed with light from above, create a softly [...]
Category Archives: Restaurants
Strip House
December 3, 2007 – 7:56 am
Our goal was to design a space where the patron would experience an intimate dining environment, using light to both create visual depth thoughout the restaurant, as well as gently casting a flattering glow of light onto customers while they dine. Internally glowing sepia light boxes, featuring images of burlesque models from the 1920′s. The [...]
Virgin Atlantic Club House
December 3, 2007 – 7:55 am
The 7,000 square foot Virgin Clubhouse is a study in “architectural elan”. Created by Shop Architects, with the lighting design by Focus Lighting, Inc., the lounge is a beautiful sanctuary for Virgin passengers where they can rest in a soothing atmosphere whilst being offered the most up to date technology, giving them an unrivaled journey [...]
Le Cirque 2000
December 3, 2007 – 7:49 am
Modern, surreal interiors within landmark architecture meld to create Le Cirque 2000. Our goal was to accent the fantastic design while enhancing the beautiful existing structure. As the building’s landmark status prohibited any attachment to the existing framework, our solution was to use the new architectural elements as light sources, creating ambient glows and highlights. [...]
Le Cirque 2006
December 3, 2007 – 7:49 am
The challenge for this space was to overcome the business-like feel of the chrome and glass architecture by wrapping the restaurant with soft light. Fabric panels over the expansive windows were backlit to create a glowing field around the room. A 50? diameter internally illuminated lamp-shade chandelier adds flattering light and provides positions to spotlight [...]
Rosa Mexicano
December 3, 2007 – 7:49 am
In its new Lincoln Center home, Rosa Mexicano has been described as a “Modern hacienda that fuses elements from contemporary and traditional Mexican art and architecture.” The most striking element in the restaurant is the two-story water wall in iridescent cobalt blue glass mosaic tile, complete with two hundred miniature white cliff divers pinned off [...]
Sushi Samba
December 3, 2007 – 7:48 am
Deep in the heart of downtown Chicago, locals and tourists basque in the exotic atmosphere of Sushi Samba – the warm, colorful lights bring the hot, romantic nights of Little Rio to this chilly mid-west city. On entering, patrons are greeted by an exciting first view of glistening faceted metal beads, lighted from above and [...]
Town Restaurant at the Chambers Hotel
December 3, 2007 – 7:47 am
Town Restaurant is located at 15 West 56th Street within the Chambers Hotel (both of which were architecturally designed by the Rockwell Group with lighting design by Focus Lighting). The concept was to simultaneously provide patrons with a series of striking vistas while offering an intimate dining experience. The challenges for the lighting designers included [...]
Morimoto
December 3, 2007 – 7:41 am
For Morimoto, one of Stephen Starr’s most popular restaurants, Focus Lighting designed sleek, angular, color-shifting booths to contrast strongly with an undulating ceiling and organically shaped plaster walls. The booths are internally lit with programmable LED fixtures and shift through a custom color palette in 1-hour cycles. In order to keep the food and patrons [...]