Elegant settings with serious technical needs raise many challenges, even in a single-room project.

Few briefs are more challenging – a lighting design for a room that is a bar, a gallery, a library and a meeting room. And for some of the most discriminating clients in Chicago – the membership of the Arts Club of Chicago.

Carefully controlling various factors from contrast to color temperature, the space redefines its function and character through the day – and caters for a demographic with particular visual needs.

Character in multifunction space is often refined in light – or destroyed. The Arts Club of Chicago Bar feels as it should throughout the arc of the day.

Color temperature isn’t a toy, it’s a refined and subtle tool – when used in combination with contrast, it becomes the experiential definition of a space.
he central resources of the club, from courts and practice facilities through the central social and administrative functions.