Katowice, Kopernika St
Project: 1994
Built: 1994

All steel elements are well-designed and expertly used by the authors from Atelier PS. Welded bar and barrier structures, handrails and partition structures, sophisticated forms of revolving bar stools together create a neo-industrial atmosphere characteristic of Silesian interior architecture in recent years. The elements that indicate the authors' design zest are the prototype lamps they've created. Three different models were used in the pub.

They all share the theme of movement, the possibility of changing the position or type of the light beam, although each lamp uses it in a different way. The lamp above the bar is made of two stainless steel rods and a strip of perforated metal sheet, bent into an incomplete circle, stuffed onto them, which protects a halogen bulb. On the bartender's side, there are simple glass hangers. The light plays in the glass vessels with varying intensity, depending on the number of glasses on the hanger. The wall lamp, called a trombone by the authors, has the ability to adjust its projection through a system of telescopic rods. Hinged wall mounting allows the lamp to rotate. A thin steel cord attached to the top of the triangular mounting plate ensures its stability at large extension. The bulb holder is a fragment of a cylinder made of a perforated sheet. The idea for the third type of lamp, a variation of a classic wall lamp, was brought to designers by steel bowls in the shape of quarters of a sphere. Their original purpose remains unknown. Stuck on a pair of steel rods, they were used as a movable, zipped cover for a light bulb, additionally hidden behind a bent strip of perforated sheet. The sections of the canopy moving along the rods change the width of the light beam emitted by the lamp. All three objects, although assembled from simple technical elements, become extremely decorative thanks to the use of perforated slides.

Grzegorz Stiasny

ARCHITEKTURA MURATOR JUNE 1996