Pendants in Crystal
Glass pendants over the table, each one lit from within.
Decorex2025
lighting design, lighting control, invisible audio, video art, keypad control
October 2025
Credits
Interior Design - Hill House Interiors
Lighting Design - John Cullen Lighting
Lighting and Shading - Lutron
Invisible Audio - Sonance
Control - Control4
Joinery - Matthew Hill Bespoke
Photography - Nick Smith
Overview
Serengeti Living was our room at Decorex 2025, built with Hill House Interiors and shown at Olympia for four days in October. The idea was simple: a beautiful room first, and only then the discovery of how much technology was quietly at work inside it.
Lighting led the design. John Cullen Lighting designed the scheme and supplied the discreet fittings, with Lutron controlling light and shade together so that one touch moved the room from a bright afternoon to a lamplit evening. Colour-tunable lighting shifted the mood in an instant, and the cornice and shelving glowed without a visible fitting anywhere.
Sound came from Sonance speakers hidden in the walls and ceiling, filling the space without a grille on show. A portrait video art display turned one wall into something alive, and Matthew Hill Bespoke built the joinery that concealed every piece of equipment behind it. Control4 brought it all together on a single keypad.
Almost a thousand people came to see the room over the four days of the show. What they saw first was simply a beautiful room. The technology only revealed itself once they had spent a little time in it, which was exactly the point.
A room that felt warm, layered and alive, with every piece of technology hidden inside the craftsmanship.
One Keypad
A single Lutron keypad beside the shelving, in place of a wall of switches.
Art in the Right Light
A brass wall light and a leopard cub, lit so the picture glows and the fitting does not.
Light That Sets the Mood
The bar was the heart of the room. Shelves of bottles were lit from behind so the glass itself became the light source, and the coffered ceiling above carried a soft wash with no downlight in sight. John Cullen's fittings were chosen to disappear into the joinery, and Lutron scenes changed the whole room from a daytime showroom to an evening bar in a few seconds.
Sonance invisible speakers sat behind the plaster, so the music was simply there. The video wall beside the bar carried the Serengeti itself, and the lighting scenes moved with it, so the room could be a bright plain at midday or a lamplit camp at dusk. Visitors watched the whole thing without ever spotting a speaker, a fitting or a cable.
Lit Shelving
Champagne on backlit marble, the light coming from the shelf itself.
In the Spotlight
A single piece in a lit niche, with the fitting hidden in the joinery.
A Quiet Corner
A figure in a niche, lit from above by a fitting you will not find.
