Interior Lighting Design Ideas – A wall of hidden LED lights behind wood panels creates a warm modern glow

February 14, 2017

Design firm LAVA have designed Olio, a Sicilian restaurant in Sydney, that uses recessed LED lights to highlight various areas throughout the restaurant and create a nice warm modern glow.

Photography by Brett Boardman

 

Creating a nice ambiance in a restaurant or any interior is an important factor to consider when designing the space.

When design firm LAVA | Laboratory For Visionary Architecture, created the design for Olio, a new Sicilian restaurant in Sydney, Australia, they used hidden lighting to highlight various areas throughout the restaurant and at the same time, created an environment with a warm glow.

 

Design firm LAVA have designed Olio, a Sicilian restaurant in Sydney, that uses recessed LED lights to highlight various areas throughout the restaurant and create a nice warm modern glow.

Photography by Brett Boardman

The interior features a natural color palette of Sicilian tiles, light oak timber, concrete tabletops and elements of Mediterranean blue and olive green.

Highlighting all of these materials and colors, are the LED lights that are hidden behind wood panels. The lighting throughout the restaurant was designed by Light Practice.


Design firm LAVA have designed Olio, a Sicilian restaurant in Sydney, that uses recessed LED lights to highlight various areas throughout the restaurant and create a nice warm modern glow.

Photography by Brett Boardman

Chris Bosse of LAVA mentions that the “soft, dripping, LED-lit lines on the joinery interpret the idea of flowing oil”.

The LED lights follow the wall along one side from the entrance, right through to the other far wall.


Design firm LAVA have designed Olio, a Sicilian restaurant in Sydney, that uses recessed LED lights to highlight various areas throughout the restaurant and create a nice warm modern glow.

Photography by Brett Boardman

On the far wall, the curved bar area has hidden lighting that wraps around the front of the bar.


Design firm LAVA have designed Olio, a Sicilian restaurant in Sydney, that uses recessed LED lights to highlight various areas throughout the restaurant like this curved bar.

Photography by Brett Boardman

The hidden lighting also features at the top of the joinery, highlighting the edges of the olive green ceiling.


Hidden LED lighting features at the top of these curved wooden panels to highlight the edges of the olive green ceiling.

Photography by Brett Boardman