Hatfield House

The Winter Dining Room at Hatfield House, home of Lord and Lady Salisbury, houses a unique collection of 17th Century classical stitched wall-hangings known as the Four Seasons Tapestries.  These depict scenes of everyday rural life at that time, and how both the countryside and activities changed seasonally through Spring, Summer, Winter and Autumn.

Four substantial fibre optic lighting systems were specified using the company’s new high CRI, high intensity LED light-sources. 

From each of the efficient source lamps, more than 45 individual lights were generated – and, since only 20 of these were required to deliver a suitably diffused light covering across each of the tapestries, plenty were left over for the other features in the room.  Thus all the paintings, architectural features, furnishings and objects were illuminated from the same original four systems.     

Using the glorious central chandelier and just the fibre optic lighting systems, the whole space is suffused with gentle and well-balance lighting which delivers a beautiful warmth and brings out the full richness, as well as the subtlety, of colours from every surface.