I-Vision's Dave Mackay undertook the task enthusiastically, "It was a great concept in a great location" he says. The venue also features the work of local and international artists, notably some specially commissioned pieces by Robert David, currently famous for his distinctive 'bar code' style.
The seated area has a wall and floor finished in polished concrete which was "just asking" to be lit explains Mackay. To add atmosphere in here, he has employed seven Lumos 3 LED down-lighters complete with 6 degree lenses, ensconced in the ceiling. These create shafts of colour changing light. In the main shop and serving area, i-Vision has supplied recessed fluorescents fitted into three "troughs" in the ceiling, two at 6 metres and one at 3.5 metres in length. The entrance stairway is lit with seven blue Lumos 1 Light Jets, beaming horizontally across the stair treads.
Outside, Mackay specified four copper up/down lighters to sympathetically illuminate the brickwork and the fancy Victorian masonry features of the building, formerly a bank.
The installed colour changing LED fixtures all have their colour changing functions controlled via the new Lumos 36 driver's inbuilt programmes. The menu is fed from a PC running a multimedia software package, and that same PC also stores and runs the background music sources.
(Jim Evans)
