Stunning teamwork: raumideen and Artemide design a villa near Lübeck
A.24 with Vector spotlights, Scopas (above the dining table), Gople Suspension (in the background)
A young client set the interior designers at raumideen Iserlohn and the lighting experts at Artemide quite a few challenges with her ideas for a modern country home: clean-lined architecture which, despite its large windows and high-ceilinged, open-plan rooms, should still have the charm of a family home. From the first sketch all the way to the finished house, the interior professionals supported their client in turning this challenging project into reality. With pleasant acoustics, natural materials and a cleverly devised lighting concept, the designers have created an ambiance of wellbeing.
Above all, the open-plan concept featuring ceilings up to eight metres high made this project particularly complex for the acoustic and lighting designers. To dampen noise, the architects had the roof slope and ceilings in the living and dining areas clad with special fabric-covered acoustic panels. Artemide’s A.24 modular lighting system fitted perfectly into the grooves between the panels. With its thin profile equipped with highly efficient Vector spotlights and diffuse light sources, the A.24 system provides the basic functional structure for the lighting. The enormous light output of the vector spotlights makes them perfectly suited to the staging of large spaces. The lighting system also allowed a dynamic, three-dimensional lighting design that follows the open architecture of the property and can be adapted to the circumstances of the space. With well-positioned designer lights from the Italian design factory, the light experts provided additional accents and islands of light that give the large spaces their structure and create a pleasant ambiance.
The whole house is characterised by brightness, transparency and the client’s great connectedness with nature. Only natural and sustainable materials were used for the design of the spaces. The choice of lighting also reflects the client’s considerable environmental awareness: Artemide’s LED lights are manufactured in an efficient, energy-saving and environmentally-friendly way.
Each and every room in the villa enthrals with a theme of its own. For example the open-plan kitchen featuring worktops with a rusty brown steel look is inspired by a shipwreck in South Africa. In contrast to the kitchen’s straight, clean interior, the eating area is enlivened by a long table made from bird’s-eye maple and features both a climbing wall and a moss wall. The Scopas pendant lamp bathes the dining area’s scenic landscape in charming light. Its circular LED discs are arranged in clusters and form an incomplete ball of light. Viewed from different angles, Scopa’s appearance also changes – a continually transforming light, simple and alive.
A.24, Skydro Ceiling (above the bathtub)
A.24 with Vector spotlights, Gople Suspension
The living space too is characterised by brightness. The gallery sweeps formally over the living and eating area and offers a beautiful view of the lower level of the house. With the sofa of untreated leather, the carpet reminiscent of a forest floor and wood panelling on the wall, raumideen’s interior designers have also created a connection with nature. The living area and staircase are lit by a cluster of Empatia lights. Individual pendant lights at varying heights provide a flowing transition between the villa’s different levels.
Embedded in nature in the truest sense of the word is the bedroom with its view of greenery and the “birch forest” as a visual highlight. Individual wooden supporting plates fitted with birch bark have been placed across the entire wall opposite the bed. The surface structure of the birch is so expressive that the design for the rest of the room was kept unobtrusive. For example the Mimesi floor lamp with its slim, transparent body made from recycled aluminium blends inconspicuously with the bedroom environment.
In the dressing room the floor-to-ceiling built-in wardrobes offer plenty of storage space. Their elegant, semi-transparent doors made from dark Parsol glass mean that they are not at all overwhelming. The gold Chesterfield sofa is a real eye-catcher and brings a notion of comfort to what is otherwise a very functional room. Its striking colour is matched by the extravagant Decomposé lights that hang playfully from the ceiling in striking contrast with the discrete A.24 system.
The bathroom is like a spa landscape. The tiles in exclusive natural stone lend the room not only a luxurious ambiance, but are also particularly robust. A wall of mirror doors generates optical space and also hides essential household aids such as a washing machine and dryer. But only with the right lighting does the room become an oasis of wellness. While the LED strips recessed in the ceiling of the A.24 system emit uniform light in the room, a true design highlight hangs over the freestanding bath: the chrome-plated, organically shaped light elements of the Skydro ceiling light by Ross Lovegrove reflect the light that appears to flow in and out between the elements like water. Even when switched off, Skydro is a sculpture that reflects natural light and the residents’ movements.
Floor-to ceiling windows structure the facade of the house and flood the rooms with daylight. Once it gets dark outside, outdoor lighting provides orientation and security. The Effetto cubic wall lights perfectly stage the building’s exterior wall with its geometric light. Through top and bottom openings in the lamp housings, LEDs project two light beams onto the wall that run parallel with the large window facade. The Dedalo light system is also perfectly suited to the outdoor area. The flexible strip light profile with its multitude of high-performance LEDs creates a pleasantly diffuse and indirect light so that the house is shown off brilliantly even in the dark.
At the end of the project is a house that is a dream come true with its well thought-out living and lighting concept developed by the interior designers from raumideen Iserlohn and the lighting experts from Artemide: a house in the country that meets the client’s particular wishes and individual requirements down to every last detail and combines intelligent lighting and a love of nature throughout its 280 square metres of modern architecture.
Photos: Juliander Enßle
Decomposé Light Suspension
A.24 with Vector spotlights
Scopas, A.24 with Vector spotlights
Gople Suspension
