Bespoke lighting for Tabaris Meet&Beer
Commissioned design and manufacture, Catalogue personalisation
Foodservice
Lamps and light fittings
Product and structural design, Assembly
Corrugated and honeycomb board, Solid board and paperboard
The project
Tabaris Meet&Beer in Valencia combines Mediterranean cooking with ordering at the bar. Archicercle designed and manufactured the lighting throughout the restaurant, creating three types of light fitting to distinguish areas by use, intimacy and length of stay.
The project combined the adaptation of existing models from our range with the development of a new light fitting. The client selected Duna and Candle, which we adapted in size and shape for the space. A third model was designed entirely for the restaurant.
Duna fittings were arranged in groups above the tables. Suspended from the ceiling and spread across broad areas, they establish a lower plane of light: a way of defining the table settings and giving them a more intimate character within the restaurant.
Each Duna is made up of corrugated cardboard sections with organic outlines, all different from one another. Together, they form a consistent outer profile and a sinuous interior, with thinner areas allowing light to pass through the body of the fitting and trace curves reminiscent of dunes. A white melamine top was incorporated to reflect the light.
Candle was used in less intimate areas, preserving the sense of ceiling height. Its localised illumination is complemented by light and shadow projected onto the ceiling, visually connecting the space through this pattern.
Candle is constructed from pulp board slats, each different, assembled onto three discs. The relative rotation of the discs around the centre generates the lamps’ sinusoidal forms. Parametric design software made it possible to generate the structural drawings for different variants from a shared rule, giving each fitting a different shape.
The scheme brings together two approaches to light: Duna’s layered volume and Candle’s open slatted structure. Alongside the third, bespoke model, these two families organise the restaurant’s lighting rather than repeating a single fitting across every area.
Duna: different corrugated cardboard sections shape both the volume and the curves of light.
Candle: three discs and a series of distinct slats create variations within one family.
Processes and materials: fabrication services · available materials · studio machinery.
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