Fares Dagher Lighting Design

04

Villa Chamoun

Year
2021
Location
Hasroun, Lebanon
Type
Hospitality / Guest House
Area
1600 m²
Client
Rony Zibara
A pale blue sitting room with two teal velvet armchairs, a chrome floor lamp, a timber wall light, and a hang of colourful framed artworks.

Built as a family home in 1965, Villa Chamoun was recently restored and reimagined as a retro hotel that celebrates and honours its history. With spectacular views over the Qadisha Valley, the house and its surrounding gardens required very little intervention in terms of redesign and refurbishment. A mixed palette of pastel and vibrant colours referencing the decade helps uplift the original identity of the house.

A pink bedroom with a hand-painted mural of classical figures and columns, brass wall appliqués either side of the bed, and a patterned sofa by the window.
A peach-pink bedroom with a brass globe ceiling light, a geometric print, a slim dressing table, and a bench upholstered in a bold floral pattern.

Lighting approach

The lighting of the interiors, the outdoor terraces, and the gardens needed to respect the era in which the house was built, and to reference the way lighting was designed and used at the time.

The result is a selection of vintage suspensions and ceiling fixtures central to the rooms, with appliqués fixed in a very symmetrical manner. Outdoor poles and bollards were custom made with a sixties feel for the garden and pool area, and general lighting reaches the outdoor terraces by lighting up the canopies of the cedar trees in the gardens.

A black hourglass wall appliqué casting light up and down beside a doorway that opens onto a pink bedroom.
  • A round turquoise fountain pool on a pink terrace, surrounded by white parasols, seen from above.
  • A round mirror between two glowing globe wall lights on a pink wall above marble.
  • A pink corridor with a vintage glass pendant, ending at a glazed door onto a balcony and trees.
  • A pale blue bedroom with a brass sputnik chandelier, a curved headboard, and lilac curtains.
  • A bedroom wall painted with black line drawings of classical figures above a yellow headboard and a small glowing lamp.
  • Two chartreuse armchairs on a geometric rug in front of teal curtains, beside a chrome arc floor lamp.