The Stadsfeestzaal in Antwerp is a monumental building, constructed in the early 1900's, and has many special architectonical details from that era.

A huge fire destroyed the building completely several years ago, but the Antwerp community decided to reconstruct the building according the original appearance, so restoring it's grandeur.

Van DOORN Lighting was asked to reconstruct the lighting fixtures for the 'new' building, but on the condition that all fixtures would appear as before.

That was a hard but grateful task; the old lighting was done with incandescent bulbs, a real 'don't' in 2008. To make things more complicated, the fire had destroyed all old fixtures completely, except for some parts which were heavily burnt but at least recognizable. With the help of a few tiny sketches from the tender document of 1900 and these recognizable parts, we succeeded to reconstruct all the lighting fixtures. While doing that, we also implemented modern lighting techniques such as CDM (HID) lightsources.

All fixtures are made of brass die cast parts, combined with cristall shield, glasses and cristal details. Many hand-made parts with help of and in combination with modern technology.

The result is awesome! Chandeliers; wall mounted fixtures and other types, in many sizes, give the interior of the Stadsfeestzaal its so wanted original appearance and grandeur.

The complete reconstruction, design, engineering and manufacturing have been done by Van DOORN Lighting in Holland. An achievement to be proud of!