Coppergreen Design - an Irish craft lighting company born from Phil Galbraith's obsession with lighting through the use of natural materials.
One of my first breakthrough projects was for the National Gallery Of Ireland in conjunction with Domini Kemp. After spotting one of my copper curved lamps in the Irish Design Shop on Drury street Dublin, Domini contacted me about a new space that she was just about to move into in the National Gallery. Needless to say, I jumped at the opportunity! The Winter Garden café has a beautiful seventeen-meter high glass ceiling which floods the room with light during the day but for the darker Irish evenings, the room needed a lower focal point to make the space feel more intimate..
An element of art used to define shape, contours, and outlines; also to suggest mass and volume. It may be a continuous mark made on a surface with a pointed tool or implied by the edges of shapes and forms..
When planning your lighting scheme for an open-plan living space you should do so with the location of your furniture in mind rather than simply focusing on the ceiling.
To achieve this I worked closely with Domini on a concept that included the idea of tree branches overhead with oversizes light globes hanging from clear cables so that they almost float in the air below. As this is the winter garden café it tied in well to create the branches from bare polished copper with the wiring hidden inside keeping the overall look and feel of the installation clean and simple and on those dark winter evenings the light bounces off the copper highlighting them giving the room a warm and inviting feel for all the wonderful events and launches that take place in the gallery.
Color comes from light - if it weren't for light, we would have no color. Light rays move in a straight path from a light source. Within this light, rays include all of the colors in the spectrum or rainbow.
