The Occhio luminaires blend harmoniously into the dark penthouse with the
mysterious-looking surfaces in phantom and black phantom.
The light paints the darkness
Anyone who enters the penthouse instantly feels at peace. The
interior design is cool and collected; the dark colors generate
calm. An almost spiritual place – just as the client wanted: “ to feel
like you are entering a temple ”.
The black residential temple is in Munich. This is where Zdovc, the
planning office with its own joinery for interior design, has trans
formed the darkness into a place of quiet beauty, painted with
light. Originally, all walls were to be painted jet black. The painting
firm Hans Überlacker not only brought this idea to life, but also
imbued it with a feel-good factor. The dark walls give a warm,
atmospheric look.
The darkness is finely nuanced throughout the interior; the deepest
black can be found in the background of a fine art print. It is pre-
cisely these dark colors that have turned the penthouse into a place
of light, because “without light, the design concept doesn’t work,”
says Dominik Weindl, managing director of Zdovc Planung GmbH.
The various dark surfaces absorb and reflect the light in different
ways. “ Without texture, there is no depth ”, explains Dominik Weindl.
“ It is only through the right lighting that the textures really come into
their own. And it’s the lights that create the atmosphere in the black
rooms.” Mysterious light zones guide the eye: Mito sospeso pendant
luminaires illuminate the dining area. Più alto spotlights guide you
through the hallway and io verticale lights point their beams of light
over the dark walls.
Occhio runs the entire gamut of creativity between light and dark
with its light quality, as well as exhibiting sophisticated design. The
luminaires with their surfaces in phantom and black phantom add
another dimension to the progressive interior. The unusual interplay of
colors between the dark grey and dark brown of the phantom lights
is a result of a sophisticated process using vacuum metal deposition.
black phantom is produced using a high-temperature anodic oxida-
tion procedure, a special process for coating aluminium, yielding a
metallic jet black. It combines the intense power of dark and light.
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