Les Cols Restaurant
The unique space located in Olot is an experience with which contact is made from the outside. And this is where the lighting project, designed by artec3, the studio run by Maurici Ginés, takes centre stage. Inside, Vercle is in charge of giving meaning to the scene thanks to its virtues and design. As its designer explains, it’s a light that “highlights the peaceful splendour of nature”. And it serves as an entrance for the visitor and future diner who is getting ready to live a culinary experience in the Carpas of Les Cols.
Vercle illuminates the tree trunks with a sensation of light that can be seen from any angle. A very small element “that conceals the light outlet and doesn’t change depending on the angle,” thus maintaining the scene, defines Víctor Vinyamata, product and light art manager at artec3. The result, in the words of Fina Puigdevall herself, “it’s a magical sensation”.
The installation includes 74 small luminaires (400 mm diameter) and 9 large luminaires (600 mm diameter) by Vercle. The sizes have been adapted to the oaks of the Les Cols gardens.
The joint project between LEDS C4 and artec3 in the Vercle installation in Les Cols is, according the lighting design studio, “a balance between the technical, the expressive and the luminous”. Simplicity, complexity and detail come together in a light that blends in with nature and reveals itself without being seen.
