Summer Custom Series: “WHOLE HOME” PROJECT SPOTLIGHT
Much of the custom residential work we do at Hammerton involves creating signature lighting packages that address all the decorative fixture requirements of the home.
These ‘whole-home’ custom services enhance the overall design integrity of a project by providing consistency in aesthetics, scale, proportion, finish detail and quality — without the generic look that frequently results from using the same brand of lighting throughout. And since each whole home project involves a dedicated team of Hammerton design, engineering and service personnel, additional benefits include streamlined project management as well as delivery and budget control.
Below is an inside look at a recent whole home project that is currently installing at a northern California lakefront estate. 68 custom and modified catalog fixtures representing 21 signature designs blend the timelessness of old world European elegance with the warmth of organic style. By offering a combination of distinctive and shared design elements — including distressed edges, decorative pins, joints and straps, scrollwork, twists, light-hued diffusers and complementary finishes — each fixture design stands on its own while collectively unifying the home’s overall aesthetic.
Stay tuned… we hope to show you the completed home — including many fixtures not featured here — in a few months!
Above: unfinished outdoor sconces just out of the fabrication shop provide a good view of the extraordinary design detail in their distressed edges and decorative pins and strapping. Below: the finished outdoor sconce.
Above: two additional outdoor fixtures. On the left: several fixtures in this post mount style illuminate the driveway. On the right: the entry pendant. Each of these outdoor fixture designs subtly introduce aesthetic elements that are carried throughout the interiors.
Above left: This window-style drum was designed to visually punctuate key traffic areas on the main floor. Its ornate twist detail is echoed both in the main hallway sconces (above right) and in the adjacent wine room dome fixture (below) to visually unify the separate spaces. Note also the subtle scrollwork and hammered flare detail which are repeated in many of the other interior lights.
Below, the 9-foot tall great room chandelier — a very different design than those above, but with many familiar design details. Also, note the octagonal pendant in the chandelier’s center: though it plays a supporting role in this enormous fixture, it takes center stage as a multi-port pendant chandelier in the home’s magnificent floating circular stairway (not shown).
Above, the two kitchen fixtures. At left, a multi-port chandelier that will hang over the peninsula. At right, the 53″ diameter island chandelier. The scalloped shades, used exclusively in these kitchen fixtures, are intended to distinguish the space separately from the adjacent great room, although the overall aesthetic is unmistakably similar.
In more private spaces, the homeowner opted to incorporate a warmer organic style that still nods to the timeless elegance of the home. Above left, the master bath chandelier. Above right: a gracefully sculpted linear suspension that will hang over the master tub.
Above, two additional organic-inspired fixtures intended for secondary bedroom spaces. Below, lamping cups used in the above left fixture.
