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Overview
In March 2008, BHS opened their new flagship store at the prestigious Barton Square shopping centre in Manchester. We were tasked to design, manufacture, and install bespoke chandeliers and lamp shades in three areas of the new store.
Project Brief
Design, manufacture and install bespoke chandeliers to promote the kitchen utensil and cutlery area, glassware area and home living sections of the store. Each oversized chandelier to represent the specific area of the store.
Powder coated metal framework creating a tiered effect chandelier.
Oversized spatular chandelier promoting BHS’ kitchen and untensil department.
The Whiteghyll Solution
The first chandelier was to promote the kitchen utensil and cutlery area. A metal framework that was powder coated to create a tiered effect body of the chandelier was designed and manufactured by our in house teams.
A second chandelier housed over 400 full size wine glasses that was used within the glassware section of the store. This provided a wonderful challenge for our design, manufacturing and installation teams who had to produce a fixing method that ensured that no glasses could fall from the chandelier once set in it’s location.
A specific fixing technique was employed to ensure each glass hung secure.
400 full size wine glasses hanging in the air!
The third area of the store was promoting home living and three oversized lamp shades were produced. The overall size was 3m diameter × 1.5m. The metal frame sub-structure designed and manufactured by our team was dressed in a canvas and tassels to create the finished product were procured from France one day prior to installation.
Giant lamp shade designed and manufactured by our in-house production teams.
Bespoke lamp shades installed by the Whiteghyll installation team.
All chandeliers and lamp shades were installed by our own installation teams using scissor lifts in tandem to suspend at an agreed height of the ceiling structure. Spot lights were then set to each chandelier and lamp shade.
The chandeliers and lamp shades designed, manufactured and installed by our Whiteghyll team were completed under very tight lead times. We were given days, not weeks, to complete the project.
This was a great challenge for Whiteghyll and the completed project is one that all our Whiteghyll team can, should be and are very proud of.