Four Seasons Restaurant

Commendable Achievement • Interior Lighting • Entrant: Tillotson Design Associates

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Exterior with entry canopy, first floor bar, and second floor event space, Four Seasons Restaurant, New York

John Muggenborg

Exterior with entry canopy, first floor bar, and second floor event space, Four Seasons Restaurant, New York

The lighting design’s primary objective for the new, though short-lived, location of the Four Seasons Restaurant in New York City was to create a high-end dining experience in which patrons look and feel beautiful. In the main dining room, Tillotson Design Associates shirked harsh downlighting, instead conceiving a decorative installation of intersecting bronze tubes that provide soft, indirect light. Enhancing this effect, custom, battery-powered table lamps deliver flattering front lighting at an intimate scale.

A bronze-clad tunnel punctuated by randomly placed miniature LED point lights connects the dining room and bar. The latter offers a moody ambience, with linear grazers recessed into the floor and concealed by air diffuser grilles, highlighting the hand-blown glass beads along the perimeter glazing. Table lamps illuminate the central sunken bar, supplemented by a linear grazer under the countertop.

The restroom entry corridor is defined by a wooden lattice ceiling with an uplit finished wood ceiling beyond. Perimeter light fixtures concealed within the trellis frame create an unexpected, magical moment.

Juror Quote
“Excellent use of integrated lighting and decorative lighting.” —Dave McCarroll, AIA, partner and CFO, KGM Architectural Lighting

View from exterior into dining room, Four Seasons Restaurant

John Muggenborg

View from exterior into dining room, Four Seasons Restaurant

Tunnel entry from bar showing miniature point lights lighting floor, Four Seasons Restaurant, New York

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Tunnel entry from bar showing miniature point lights lighting floor, Four Seasons Restaurant, New York

Dining room entry from tunnel, Four Seasons Restaurant, New York

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Dining room entry from tunnel, Four Seasons Restaurant, New York

Bar seating area showing table lamps, beaded curtain, and seating niche, Four Seasons Restaurant, New York

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Bar seating area showing table lamps, beaded curtain, and seating niche, Four Seasons Restaurant, New York

Entry into bar area at dusk with beaded curtain and highlighted central bar, Four Seasons Restaurant, New York

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Entry into bar area at dusk with beaded curtain and highlighted central bar, Four Seasons Restaurant, New York

Detail, beaded curtain grazer, Four Seasons Restaurant, New York

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Detail, beaded curtain grazer, Four Seasons Restaurant, New York

Dining room set for breakfast with custom tubular pendant, Four Seasons Restaurant, New York

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Dining room set for breakfast with custom tubular pendant, Four Seasons Restaurant, New York

Dining room, Four Seasons Restaurant, New York

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Dining room, Four Seasons Restaurant, New York

Second floor champagne lounge, Four Seasons Restaurant, New York

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Second floor champagne lounge, Four Seasons Restaurant, New York

Restroom, Four Seasons Restaurant, New York

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Restroom, Four Seasons Restaurant, New York

Restroom vestibule showing uplit ceiling above wooden lattice, Four Seasons Restaurant, New York

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Restroom vestibule showing uplit ceiling above wooden lattice, Four Seasons Restaurant, New York


Details
Project Name: Four Seasons Restaurant, New York
Architect: Isay Weinfeld, São Paulo • Isay Weinfeld, Pedro Ricciardi, Marcela Aleotti, Adriana Aun
Architect of Record: Montroy DeMarco Architecture, New York • Steven Andersen, Daniel Terebelo, AIA, Chris White, AIA
Lighting Designer: Tillotson Design Associates, New York • Suzan Tillotson, Erin Dreyfous, Megan Trimarchi
Electrical Engineer: Stantec
Client Representative: LePartner Project Solutions
Custom Decorative Pendant Designer: Michael Anastassiades
Custom Decorative Fixture Designer: Isay Weinfeld
Electrical Contractor: Adco Electrical Corp.
Photographer: FG+SG Architectural Photography, John Muggenborg Photography
Project Size: 10,700 square feet
Watts per Square Foot: 6.5 (front of house)
Code Compliance: 2016 New York City Energy Conservation Code
Manufacturers: USAI Lighting, Flos USA/Lukas Lighting, Flos, Luminii, Electrix, Moda Light, Inter-lux, Apure, Lutron

About the Author

Murrye Bernard

Murrye Bernard, AIA, LEED AP, is an architect, writer, editor, and strategist based in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in many design publications, including Architectural Lighting, Architectural Record, and Hospitality Design. Most recently, she was the managing editor of Contract magazine; she has also served as editor of AssociateNews and Forward, newsletters of the AIA National Associates Committee, and as contributing editor to e-Oculus, the newsletter of the AIA New York Chapter. Murrye earned a B.Arch. from the University of Arkansas, and has practiced with Polk Stanley Rowland Curzon Porter Architects (now Polk Stanley Wilcox) in Little Rock, Ark., and TEK Architects in New York.

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