the first floor foyer

... features huge ribs and overhead beams. We are belowdecks in an 18th century ship of the line.

The sun pours through a grating overhead and moves slowly back and forth across the deck with the slow roll of the ship.

This is achieved by rolling a parabolic mirror around the focal length of a 75w halogen lamp; the light passing through a ship's hold-style grate and casting a moving pattern onto the deck.

Construction is entirely of MDF (fibreboard) with artworked grain by the highly skilled Michael Sladd (below).