In 2011, legendary open-air Beirut club White has been re-branded and renovated, and the iconic original location reinvented as cocktail bar and restaurant Iris. The owners invited .PSLAB to create custom lighting products for the famous rooftop in central Beirut. In few months, .PSLAB’s product design team created a strong set of interventions that have given the space a distinctive new mood.
The open air rooftop bar is unusually narrow and linear, requiring a strong response to break up the space and respond to the outside environment. The line of the first area with its major central bar element enhances this linearity, and the perspective is very specific. On either side of the bar, depth is provided by the second table third seating areas with their stepped levels. From the entrance, any lighting solution will be partly concealed as the space recedes away from the viewer, but a strong insertion into the space will also define the mood as people enter the bar.
A major insertion into the first area was made in the form of two lines of black steel pillars on either side of the bar, which gave a new dynamism to the linearity of the space and concentrated attention over the bar. A further key definition was provided by a line of upside-down V-shaped black steel fixtures finished with white bulbs, suspended over the bar by black cables. The point of the ‘V’ was further defined by the addition of a box to enhance the linear aspect created by lining up a quantity of these products.
Founded in 2004 with over 100 team members working out of four city bases in Europe and the Middle-East including offices in Beirut and Stuttgart, .PSLAB are designers and manufacturers of site-specific lighting products. Our work can be found in private homes, conceptual boutiques, restaurants, offices and art galleries worldwide. We have also been internationally awarded for many of our lighting products.
Our creative and technical teams work together on every aspect of product development, from concept to construction. This gives us the edge that is the core of our identity – our pieces are individual to particular spaces, and are manufactured by us, in our own factory.
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