VICTORIA JERRAM LIGHTING With a global portfolio across a variety of sectors, Victoria Jerram Lighting is a boutique lighting design consultancy founded 10 years ago to offer clients a bespoke service combining pragmatism and creativity. Eglon House London, UK Inspired by Pierre Chareau’s iconic Art Deco Parisian Masterpiece ‘Maison de Verre’, Eglon House is a work/live residence in North London designed by Chassay + Last Architects. Originally a stable block, the site has been a WWII war shell-casing factory, a dairy, a recording studio, and most recently the home of film director, Tim Burton. The modernist house incorporates 13,000sqft of living and work space across two structures facing each other across a private central courtyard, linked at basement level. The biggest challenge was to create a cohesive but flexible lighting system suitable for both home and work spaces that can be adapted to the different ceiling heights, while playing into its strong industrial aesthetic. A bespoke, museum-grade brass track and spotlighting system fitted the brief, its strong ceiling pattern echoing the grid structure of the façade, and the premium material provided a high-end finish that reflects the industrial elements of the interior scheme. Ambitious sustainability targets set by the client (BREEAM Excellent and Code for Sustainable Living Level 4) were achieved with the use of LED lamps, lighting controls with daylight and occupancy sensors as well as highly-efficient concealed LED strip lighting.
The Goring Hotel London, UK The Goring Hotel is a 100-year-old, boutique, five-star hotel just behind Buckingham Palace. Jerram was originally brought in by interior designer Russell Sage to help create a glamorous new look for the reception and lobby, and has been advising the hotel on its lighting ever since. Flow was an important factor, and it was also essential that the lighting complemented the distinctive interior design. Floor level uplighters were used in doorways and warm dimmable LED coffer lighting made for a discreet but flexible arrangement that welcomes and draws guests in. Similarly, lighting the hotel’s plasterwork walls required a sensitive and creative approach but having explored various possible solutions, Jerram decided to treat the plasterwork as a piece of art and used artwork spots, aimed and focused to bring its fine detail to life. The client’s desire to create drama by lighting the bar from above was challenging because of the concrete ceiling and the requirement for no visible fixtures so Jerram brought Jeremy Goring and his bar consultant, Gorgeous Group, together to demonstrate that lighting the cocktails from below with miniature uplights set into a drip tray could achieve the required sense of theatre. The garden wasn’t originally included in the lighting brief, but Jerram realised that the Orangery’s glazing would create a blackhole effect, sucking up all the available light at night. Upgrading the exterior lighting solved this problem and also offered an opportunity to optimise guests’ enjoyment of the hotel’s gardens into the evening.
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