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DINING WITH LIGHT
Roundhouse New York, USA Located in 150-year-old structures that once housed a textile mill, the Roundhouse offers a full-service experience, including a boutique hotel, award-winning American restaurant, and popular event space that accommodates up to 200 guests. The historic Hudson Valley property overlooks a beautiful waterfall, rushing creek, and bustling street corner in charming Beacon, New York. The thoughtfully designed interior features contributions from local artisans, including modern pendant lighting from Niche. In a cozy creekside lounge, a cluster of custom Niche crystal Solitaire pendants in varying sizes hang above the bar. Stunningly minimalist and straightforward in its presentation, the celebration of one single Edison style lamp at the centre of the Solitaire pendant is beautiful to behold. Niche’s handmade clear glass ensures premium quality through optimal clarity and thickness. Each piece of glass is handblown, cold worked, and inspected by an intimate group of skilled artisans in their
upstate New York studio, just blocks away from the sophisticated bar and restaurant. The crystal pendant lights cast a warm glow throughout the lounge, making it the perfect place to sit by a crackling fire while enjoying one of the Roundhouse’s signature cocktails. “We had grappled with many different custom chandelier ideas, always with the focus of trying to create something playful and super shiny,” says Elizabeth Strianese, the Interior Designer who worked on the original remodel of the Roundhouse. “The Solitaire lights are perfect, because they feel like giant bubbles floating above the dark and grounded bar. It feels incredibly elegant and uncomplicated but retains a bit of a flirty air.” Inside the restaurant, tables of all sizes line the dining area and floor-to-ceiling windows provide stunning views of the waterfall. In this room, custom Niche Helio pendants in effervescent glass with a custom mercury overlay hang from the high, wood panel ceiling over the guests. The Helio pendant
light is designed for versatility, with both translucent and opaque colour palettes, as well as an array of available lamping options. The compact shape of the Helio pendant works well when grouped together, and that certainly holds true in this setting. “We worked with Niche to create a custom pendant that had their natural, handmade aesthetic, with some added bling,” continues Strianese. “Our goal was to have original, unique, locally-made lights that hung at varying levels throughout the ceiling of the restaurant to resemble jewels or stars in the sky. The Roundhouse restaurant is a vast concrete shell, and we wanted to keep that industrial vibe to the bones of the space - but the lights needed to bring that bit of luxe that really makes a space sing. Niche was the perfect partner for this, as they were able to create a light that casts a soft romantic interior while the outside sparkles with reflections and bronzey fun.” www.nichemodern.com www.elizabethstrianese.com