Lloydbar in the Lloydhotel, Amsterdam

Hutten creó, frente a una tienda-restaurante, una barra libre que cuenta con una enorme lámpara negra -la Llamp Lloyd- como parte del gabinete de bebidas. El objeto es un grupo aparentemente arbitrario de luces a las que se han fijado varias barras largas, cada una de las cuales termina en un punto de atención.

Lloydbar in the Lloydhotel, Amsterdam

Lloydbar in the Lloydhotel, Amsterdam

Lloydbar in the Lloydhotel, Amsterdam

Lloydbar in the Lloydhotel, Amsterdam

Lloydbar in the Lloydhotel, Amsterdam

Lloydbar in the Lloydhotel, Amsterdam

Lloydbar in the Lloydhotel, Amsterdam

Once upon a time, an impressive building was erected on Amsterdam’s Oostelijke Handelskade in a pre-Amsterdam School style.
The owner, Royal Holland Lloyd (KHL), used it to house Dutch and East European emigrants heading for South America, who stayed here while being examined and disinfected.
After serving this purpose for nearly 15 years, in 1940 the building was converted from an emigrant hostel to a prison. From 1989 to 1999 it accommodated artists’ workshops. A period of vacancy was followed by an intensive renovation project led by MVRDV.
In 2004 the Lloyd reopened, this time as a ‘one- to five-star hotel’. A creature of habitual change, the age-old building needed yet another refurbishment in 2008. Hotel owners Suzanne Oxenaar and Otto Nan asked Richard Hutten to do his magic in the restaurant.
Hutten created a freestanding bar that fronts a vertical shop and that features an enormous black lamp. ‘I wasn’t permitted to attach light sources for the bar and shop to the building,’ says Hutten. ‘To make a virtue of necessity, I designed the Lloyd Llamp as part of the drinks cabinet at the middle of the bar.’
The object is a seemingly arbitrary cluster of lamps to which several long rods are affixed, each ending in a spotlight; Hutten’s Lloyd Llamp lights the entire space, from top to bottom.
Currently no plans exist to commercialize the lamp, but design, too, is a creature of habitual change.