Green Ridge
North Rothbury, Hunter Valley NSW
Custom pendant lighting for the entrance foyer, the bar and café and the private dining room of the Green Ridge pavilion, fabricated to the design of the Knowles Group interior design team.
Green Ridge Hunter Valley is Sencia's retirement community at Huntlee in the Hunter Valley, a region defined by its landscape, its unhurried pace, and a culture of hospitality that runs deeper than most. The pavilion's interior reflects that character: warm timbers, natural stone, open sightlines, and communal spaces that feel genuinely inviting rather than merely functional.
Working to the design of the Knowles Group interior design team, Lucretia was commissioned to supply custom pendant lighting for three key communal spaces within the pavilion: the entrance foyer, the bar and café area, and the private dining room. In each space, the designer arrived with a clear intent. Lucretia's role was to deliver the piece that matched it.
A sculptural welcome
The Silken Flow pendant was specified for the entrance foyer, where it needed to function as both the room's primary decorative statement and a fitting that set the tone for the centre from the first moment of arrival. The Silken Flow is a chandelier of flowing, draped acrylic elements arranged in a continuous wreath form, its soft curves giving it a quality that reads as almost organic rather than manufactured. Suspended above the marble entry table and reception desk against the warm timber slat columns and white ceiling plane of the foyer, it introduces movement and warmth into a space that could easily have felt formal.
The piece was configured to the designer's specification, with its scale and proportions calibrated to the ceiling height and footprint of the foyer so that it holds its presence without overwhelming a space that needed to feel welcoming rather than dramatic.
An inviting atmosphere
The bar and café presented a different brief. Rather than a single statement piece, the designer wanted a considered composition of pendant elements above the marble bar counter that would provide both decorative presence and warm ambient light across the full length of the space. The solution was a multi-drop arrangement of Selene pendants in different forms, including oval, ball, and saucer variants, suspended at varying heights from four black linear track bars, each carrying five pendants, across the bar and café.
The Selene's optical-grade acrylic body refracts light from its built-in LEDs to produce a warm, halo-like glow, and the brushed gold collar on each element carries through the gold detailing visible in the bar's backlit stone panels and brass accents throughout the space. The composition was resolved to the designer's specification: the mix of forms, the arrangement within each cluster, and the suspension heights were all specified before fabrication, so that the composition arrived and read exactly as intended rather than being adjusted on site.
A considered setting for the table
The private dining room called for something more intimate than the foyer or the bar. Here the designer specified the Oliver pendant in a brushed gold finish, each fitting carrying three drops from a single central canopy, hung at staggered lengths of 300, 600 and 900mm above the long timber table.
Supplied in warm white 3000K, the pendants sit comfortably with the timber, upholstery and artwork of the room, while the brushed gold carries through the finish used across the foyer and bar pendants. As in the other spaces of the pavilion, the configuration and drop lengths were set to the designer's specification before fabrication.
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Photographs from the pavilion
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