Arte Charpentier Office, Paris, France

Arte Charpentier is an international agency with more than 120 employees in Paris, Lyon and 40 employees in China. Architects, landscape architects, urban planners, interior architects, project managers, researchers, with a global approach, from design to delivery, from detail to territory.

In a desire to renovate its agency and particularly the lighting, Arte Charpentier approached NEKO Lighting.

The challenge was to propose an homogeneous lighting of very high quality and a reasonable budget in quite diverse spaces: office floors, material library, relaxation areas, circulation, reception and meeting rooms.

The conceptual idea is a distribution line that connects the spaces and serves the workstations … a breadcrumb trail. This white line is suspended almost flush with the ceiling.

The whole of the plateau of more than 800m² has been treated with a color temperature of 3000K and an IRC higher than 90 for an optimal rendering of colors and respecting the standards in force for office lighting, thus allowing work on a computer with a good visual comfort.

We have mixed spotlights on Moduline 48V rail for accent lighting and small lens strips combined with light lines for more general lighting. All these elements can be moved without constraint because they are magnetically fixed in the track, thus offering a total modularity in time.

Discreet lighting in cornices around the openings to the exterior to reduce the contrast with natural light.

Elegant round Game-type suspensions in the meeting rooms to distribute light evenly and create a warm environment.