Marrow Fine's flagship showroom sits inside San Diego's One Paseo, where rose-and-gold tones and a burgundy, Memphis Milano-inspired display case set a bolder mood than the brand's other locations. The walls feature a rose-and-mica emulsion that catches ambient light and gives the surfaces a soft shimmer, while a private fitting room in mauve velvet against gem-toned fractal walls offers the same one-on-one privacy found at Marrow Fine's other showrooms.
Lighting designer Garrett Neal of NEAL Lighting carried the brand's standard forward here, cool light on the diamonds, warm light everywhere else, but the room asked more of the fixtures themselves. A run of arched wall niches called for flexible LED lighting that could curve with the architecture rather than sit on top of it. Traced along the inside edge of each arch, the light creates a halo effect that gives the niches real depth and pulls the eye toward the jewelry inside rather than the wall around it. Lit this way, the arches do double duty: strung down one wall, they make a small showroom read as a taller, more open room than its actual footprint.
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