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La Villa Madie stands on the promontory that dominates the little
French town of Cassis. This top- class restaurant, which looks out
over the Mediterranean Sea, specialises in innovative cuisine created
using local, seasonal ingredients. Run by chef Dimitri Droisneau and
Marielle Droisneau, partners both at work and in life, the restaurant
has held two Michelin stars since 2014.
The French practice Mise en Scène Éclairage worked together with
VinJay-Studio to create a lighting project designed to bring to life
the park that surrounds the building. To do this, they chose lighting
fixtures with a high colour rendering index (CRI >90), to bring out
the green tones of the vegetation. To light the tall maritime pines,
they chose Stra P 1.0 projectors, fixed in the ground with stakes and
directed upwards to light the trees’ gnarled trunks and foliage, as
well as their characteristic interweaving branches. The projectors’
37W power pushes the light to the top of the trees, creating a
magical atmosphere in which the interlaced branches stand out
against the blue tones of the sky at dusk.
A simple portico protects the entrance to La Villa Madie: it is marked
by Flori 1.0 projectors fixed to the structure’s wooden beams and
directed at the paving. The area is surrounded by a luxuriant garden
in which low shrubs edged by stone flowerbeds share the space with
tall trees. On sunny summer days, the latter cast welcome shade on
the small square in front of the entrance to the restaurant. When
evening falls, the vegetation is accentuated by lighting solutions
in harmony with those used for the maritime pines. Here, too, the
designers opted for bottom-up lighting, choosing smaller, lower-
wattage projectors than the Stra P 1.0 – are fixed in the ground with
stakes, pointing their light beams at the trees’ trunks and foliage.
La Villa Madie
Location
Cassis, France
Application
Landscape
Project
VinJay-Studio
Light planning
Mise en Scène Éclairage
Delivered by
Mise en Scène Éclairage
Executed by
VinJay-Studio
