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Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester
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The centre piece of the Alain Ducasse restaurant at the Dorchester Hotel in London is the stunning TABLE LUMIERE that seats up to six guests, who will be served a “menu surprise” created especially by Executive Chef Jocelyn Herland.
The table is almost completely surrounded by a luminescent, oval curtain made of cotton voile and over 4,500 cracked fibre optic strands, which drop dramatically from the ceiling. Crescent supplied supplied the cracked glass fibre optic looms or this which are powered by the CREAD068 projector, so the whole curtain effect only consumes around 80 Watts.
Patrick Jouin compares sitting at this table to walking into a cloud. While diners at the TABLE LUMIERE will be able to hear the buzz of the restaurant, they will be screened from view. A vaisselier placed next to the table contains a stunning collection of Hermès china, Puiforcat silverware and Saint-Louis crystal, which has been exclusively sourced for the TABLE LUMIERE.
Light & Design Associates were the lighting designers, Crescent would like to thank them for their support on this project.
More about the CRE068AD EFO (Efficient Fibre Optics) projector:
Crescent EFO is a revolutionary new lighting system offering all the benefits of Fibre Optic Lighting with the added advantage of energy efficiency. Technological innovations from Crescents parent company, Energy Focus, in solid core optical fibre and light collecting systems in EFO give crisp, white light with an efficiency way beyond what has been possible with Fibre Optics up to now.
Revolutionary optics Energy Focus’ patented Compound Parabolic Collector (CPC) is at the very heart of the new EFO system. The CPC collects the light generated by the 68W AC HQI lamp directly from the arc tube, and, at the same time directs the light beams to the ideal angle (35 degrees max) to efficiently launch the light into the fibre.
The CPC non-imaging system mixes the colour and gives a much more even distribution. This in turn obviates the need for any mixing or randomising of the optic fibres in the port to achieve an even light output across the various tails of the fibre harness
