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When interior design becomes light

When interior design becomes light

Montréal, February 15, 2008

Montreal company Lightemotion, a lighting design specialist, has designed the lighting for the common areas of L’Héritage du Vieux-Port, the former cold-storage building converted into luxury condos by the ARCOP architecture firm.

We have successfully integrated lighting into the interior design,” notes François Roupinian, founder of Lightemotion.

Working closely with GSM Design Interiors, the firm in charge of the building’s interior design, François Roupinian treated the common areas like a stage, using specific architectural and decorative elements to generate a soft indirect light.

In the lobby, the chimney has become an imposing lamp, with backlit sheets of onyx suspended over the fireplace. The path to the basement (home to a pool, sauna and weight room) leads down a spiral staircase that acts as a gigantic light, with glass steps lit from below. The same technique is used to illuminate the beautiful Barrisol stretch ceiling over the pool.

Where architectural elements were not used as makeshift lampshades, lighting sources were incorporated into the structure of the building. Lights are hidden under the stone gardens around the pool, in the bottom of the refreshing fountains in the lobby, and behind coves incorporated into door frames in the hallways.

Throughout the entire building, Lightemotion’s lighting design blends architecture and light.

About Lightemotion

Lightemotion consists of a multidisciplinary and multicultural team who manage projects in five languages. Lightemotion’s origins are in the field of performing arts and multimedia and have expanded into other fields of expertise such as architectural and museum lighting. Lightemotion’s signature work has given them an international reputation through working on major projects in Canada, Europe, the United States, Asia, Middle East and Australia.

Very active at home and abroad, Lightemotion has undertaken many diverse lighting projects. Among them are museum exhibits (Museum of Strasbourg, National Museum of Singapore, Naturalis Museum in Leiden) casinos and cabarets (Hard Rock Hotel).

Lightemotion has also designed architectural lighting for Montreal’s Quartier des spectacles, which launched in October 2009, the Wine Museum of Barolo in Italy that will be inaugurated in November 2009, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal 2009, the Canada Pavilion in Shanghai in 2010, the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Montreal in 2011, and The Revel Casino Atlantic City in 2011.