When it comes to restaurants, lighting plays a central role in terms of atmosphere and an optimal view.
In the hall used for the reception of guests, it is appropriate to pay due attention to the tables, as well as focal points of central importance.
Illuminating the tables requires special care since the degree of visibility and the mood of the entire room will depend on it.
In this article, we'll talk about how to illuminate a restaurant table and what factors need to be taken into account when choosing the most suitable lamps.
5 useful tips on the best way to illuminate a restaurant table
To realise the decorative lighting project for the restaurant you're working on in the best way possible, follow our 5 design tips:
- Concentrate the lighting around each table
- Evaluate the shape and size of the tables
- Choose the lamp model considering the location
- Evaluate the type of colour temperature based on the mood you want to create
- Use more lighting design solutions
We will now take a look at each point
1. Concentrate the lighting around each table
The tables are the focal points of a restaurant. Here, diners are preparing to eat their meal, expecting excellent visibility and relaxation, completely immersed in a unique atmosphere created through lighting.
Therefore, it is important that each table becomes the centre of your restaurant lighting design project. Concerning the surfaces, each of them must be optimally illuminated with the ultimate goal of ensuring excellent visuals and at the same time creating "a bubble of intimacy".
Sahara e Gangster
2. Evaluate the shape and size of the tables
Before selecting the models of the lamps to be installed above each table, it is advisable to evaluate the shape and size of the table. This step will help you determine how many decorative lamps you need to use.
For example, the solutions used to illuminate a small table will never be the same as those used to illuminate a long table.
Nevertheless, for long tables, it is always better to opt for a composition of lamps, and for round and rectangular tables, it is more appropriate to select a different number of design solutions.
3. Choose the lamp model considering the location
If the previous step helps you decide how many lamps to choose, considering the location will help you choose the most suitable model to illuminate a restaurant table.
If you are working on an indoor lighting design project for restaurants, then you will have a wider choice, which can range from suspension lamps to ceiling lights, or even appliqués.
While as far as outdoor spaces are concerned, the range of possible choices narrows, but you can still opt for viable solutions bringing an added value of style and functionality to your project.
You could choose elegant table lamps or decide to install floor lamps next to each table. The choice depends precisely on the location in question.
Lucilla e Life
4. Evaluate the type of colour temperature based on the mood you want to create
Often, the atmosphere in a restaurant depends on the colour temperature of the lamps. For this reason, we advise you to carefully evaluate the intensity of the light source you wish to use to illuminate each table.
Warm light or cold light?
Warm light sources will create a climate of intimacy and complete relaxation, while cold light stimulates and energises the room’s atmosphere. Make your choice based on the mood your client wants to set for the restaurant.
5. Use more lighting design solutions
To instil a sense of creative variety in the project, use multiple lighting design solutions. It is not mandatory to use the same model of lamp for each table; on the contrary, it is always better to vary and give full rein to one's aesthetic sense.
Therefore, our advice is to combine different types of lamps, playing with shapes and colours, while always remaining faithful to the concept conceived for setting up the restaurant.
The most suitable Karman lamps to illuminate a restaurant table
Karman’s designer lamps have an innate aesthetic presence and an extremely versatile decorative potential.
The retro charm of each design solution by Karman fits with ease into the most varied interior design projects.
Below, are the best suspension lamps to illuminate a restaurant table, according to Karman:
- Settenani Collection and Biancaluce
- Au Revoir
- Braille e Life
- Notredame
- Sahara
- Gangster
- Déjà-Vu e Déjà-Vu Nu
- Kimono and Ululì Ululà
- Cell
- Lucilla and Sisma
- Alibabig
Settenani Collection and Biancaluce: materiality and refinement
The Settenani Collection is a line of lamps, designed by Matteo Ugolini, that shares the same body in rough concrete, but in 7 different shapes. They are ideal for small tables in a sequence to provide direct and intense light.
To complete the collection is Biancaluce, a concrete suspension complemented by a metallic skirt: a touch that makes the composition more graceful.
Biancaluce
Light and theatricality: the unmistakable presence of Au Revoir
If you are looking for an important lamp or a chandelier that can combine light and theatricality, choose Au Revoir, a creation by Matteo Ugolini.
This lamp, made of white opal glass, seems to echo the shape of antique chandeliers but presents itself with an unusual and bold silhouette. Au Revoir is perfect for large tables in private rooms.
Au Revoir
Braille and Life: a combination with a great visual impact
Both individually and installed in the same composition, Braille and Life, created by Matteo Ugolini, show considerable decorative potential.
Together they create a combination with a great visual impact, and, on their own, they express great aesthetic appeal. Both are suitable for illuminating small tables or long tables.
Braille has a white satin glass lampshade and low relief motifs capable of capturing the attention of the most attentive observer.
And Life is a suspension lamp with a retro flavour, a rusted wire structure and denim fabric shade with a vintage finish. This lamp is capable of providing streams of intense light and a distinctive decorative touch to the environment.
Braille e Life
The detailed drawing of Notredame
Notredame is a suspension in white or gold technopolymer that evokes the image of ancient Gothic rose windows with a strongly suggestive form recreated by designers Luca De Bona and Dario De Meo.
Available in two solutions, this lamp not only gives well-diffused lighting to the table but outlines the decorative character of the entire room.
Notredame
Evocative forms and intense light: Sahara
Even Sahara presents a highly evocative silhouette. Both in white and green, this suspension recalls the unmistakable appearance of dry endangered cacti.
In an elongated or more collected form, Sahara, a creation by Matteo Ugolini, guarantees uniform and directional lighting to the surface of the tables. Sober and graceful charm and intense light conjugated in a lamp with a unique design.
Sahara
Gangster: when ceramics welcome light
With Gangster, ceramics welcome light and make it pure magic, another creation by Matteo Ugolini with great aesthetic character and an inimitable visual appeal.
The inner part of the lampshade, both in bronze and white, reflects the light that spreads throughout the space to ensure optimal brightness at the tables and at the same time decorates the restaurant.
Gangster
Déjà-Vu and Déjà-Vu Nu: compositions that fascinate
For a romantic and elegant atmosphere, why not choose Déjà-Vu or Déjà-Vu Nu?
These designer lamps can enrich their furnishing scenarios and ensure diffused lighting for the entire room when installed individually or in fascinating compositions.
On the one hand, Déjà-Vu is available with a white linen shade for greater diffusion of light. The other, Déjà-Vu-Nu, which comes without a lampshade, gives the room essential light points for the illumination of each table or long tables.
Both lamps, born from the creative mind of Matteo Ugolini, can outline sophisticated and classy atmospheres.
Déjà Vu
Same matter, different lighting: Kimono next to Ululì Ululà
Kimono and Ululì Ululà are both made of fibreglass but give the environment a different type of magic.
On one side, Kimono, the lamp that recalls the design of ancient Chinese lanterns, is available in two sizes and in every case guarantees warm and welcoming lighting.
On the other hand, Ululì Ululà, a globe in white fibreglass with lace inserts, has an unquestionable stage presence, impossible to miss.
Both suspensions, created by Matteo Ugolini, are suitable for illuminating restaurant tables both indoors and outdoors.
Kimono e Ululì Ululà
Cell: the modern reinterpretation of the past
The modern taste of Cell never goes unnoticed, especially in the furnishing concepts of a classy restaurant. This design solution is suitable for illuminating the tables in clubs and bistros with contemporary charm.
With its structure in white metal wire and a silk tassel to complete the composition: Cell, a suspension lamp created by Matteo Ugolini, establishes itself as a legitimate descendant of ancient Chinese lamps reinterpreted in a modern way, but with the same graceful personality.
Cell
Lucilla e Sisma: sharp and bold profile, optimal lighting
Lucilla and Sisma, both by Matteo Ugolini, although belonging to different design concepts, have a minimal and essential structure.
On the one hand, we have Lucilla, a suspension with a rust-coloured iron structure available in three sizes. On the other hand, Sisma, a suspension with a black metal rod structure with three bulbs to be placed at will.
A sharp and bold profile with optimal lighting: this is what Lucilla and Sisma guarantee.
Sisma
Design and lighting united in harmony with Alibabig
Clean and decisive lines, batting material and soft light: this is Alibabig. This is another creation by Matteo Ugolini, a suspension with a sober and elegant charm.
With its white fibreglass structure, Alibabig is able to provide direct lighting to the table, leaving room for subtle nuances of filtered brightness. In fact, fibreglass favours the filtration of light, which is why this lamp is ideal for outlining an intimate and welcoming atmosphere.
Alibabig
Take care of every detail in your restaurant lighting design project
It is important to take care of every detail, including the correct illumination of each table, to realise a complete lighting design project for restaurants.
Follow our suggestions and choose the Karman designer lamps that you prefer.
In this way, you will be able to give an original touch to the decorative lighting complex of the room, also leaving room for functionality.
For more information, support and assistance in choosing the right models of lamps to illuminate the tables of the restaurant you are dealing with, do not hesitate to contact us at this link. We are at your complete disposal.
