Freeline from Fabbian Makes Hospitality Debut
Fabbian’s Freeline illuminates the ground floor spaces of the recently opened New Road Hotel in London.
This one time East London textile factory has a new life as an 80 room boutique hotel. The goal was to create a modern and informal space that incorporated the building’s industrial history. The renovation involved the preservation of a great number of walls in rough masonry and of the cast iron frames belonging to the original large windows and partitions. For this purpose, the Freeline system was well suited, and thanks to the minimalism of its aluminum bars, it perfectly suited this context of industrial recovery, becoming the main lighting of the entire ground floor: hall, bar, restaurant, corridor, bathrooms, as well as the meeting & leisure room – where Freeline has been integrated into a modern home automation system.
The project structures the system in different ways for all the different environments, creating straight lines, oblique, zigzag and “playing” using the three dimensions. In total, over 160 meters of Freeline structure and 113 light points were used, mainly the floodlights (F45L12) while 7 spots (F45L02) were reserved for the lighting of the bar counter. The project manager and our client was CMT Design & Construction company from London, while the interior design project was designed by the architect Ian Hopwood, of Salisbury’s Symthesis Architecture studio.
Freeline system is less than one inch in diameter and includes the flood and spot lights featured in this project along with a blown glass globe for diffused illumination. The system has been expanded with the linear lighting module and is available in black or bronze finish. All components use low power, high output LED sources. The design flexibility is perfect for hospitality projects in new construction and in renovations. It can easily adapt to horizontal, vertical and diagonal planes and with its clean, minimal design will blend into many different design concepts.
