Client: Hotel Georgia Development
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Completion date: 2015
Project Team
Industry Resource
Eos Lightmedia
Interior Designer
Studio Munge
Client
Hotel Georgia Development
Overview
Step through the heavy wooden doors on the lower level of Vancouver’s iconic Hotel Georgia and discover a throwback to the best of elegant Jazz Era speakeasies.
Dormant for nearly a decade, this new venue evolved as part of the historic hotel’s 2011 redesign and opened its doors in 2015 to welcome visitors to a time gone by.
Goals
Eos Lightmedia was asked to create an intimate, period-appropriate, sophisticated ambiance that uses contemporary, energy-efficient technologies to evoke the sultry best of Roaring Twenties. Eos accomplished this with natural warm lighting from decorative lamps, complemented by lensed luminaires, which add soft illumination and provide a subtle contrast for the darker finishes. Lighting under the seating and bar rail creates a soft glow on the floor, while high-colour-rendering LED luminaires bring out the colour and sheen of textured fabrics and finishes.
Process
As visitors sip their cocktails and listen to Louis Armstrong, they experience the subtle role that lighting plays in taking them back to an era of unprecedented glamour and prosperity. And that’s exactly the point.