Chan's fundamental lighting device consists of a narrow-angle spot casting a small but intense pool of light in the center of each tablecloth. This sparkles the food and bounces friendly lighting that minimizes diners' sagging jowls and eye bags. J. Sheekey goes against the fashionable grain by being a multiroom restaurant. Not far from J. Sheekey is Busaba Eathai, a Thai restaurant lit artfully by Chan. The dining room is dominated by cylindrical shades suspended from a heavily coffered ceiling of dark-stained wood.
Deep shadows surround.
The women's clothing shop Jigsaw on New Bond Street, a few doors down from Versace Jeans, is an excellent example of Chan's fiexibility. The designer developed a system of ceiling holes that allows four lights to shine through each opening. One would have to look straight up inside a ceiling hole to see the cluster of lights held in accurate display position by Longlife magnets on the inside of the spherical wok. Chan takes his atmosphere into the real world and makes it become our environment. The design ought to be unnoticed.