Visit to the Arc show - 2

This year, I finally visited the Arc show in Islington. I was meant to visit many times the past years, but always had a reason not to go. Lighting is very important in interiors, and is one of my special interest, so I really couldn’t go on and on finding excuses not to go!

As I mentioned already, LED lights are at the front of the stage. More and more manufacturers propose all sorts of LED lights. Of course, LED has an easy application for outside lighting as well as in retail where a strong white light can be used. For residentail application, it wasn’t so easy to use LEDs, and manufacturers have been working hard on warming up the light provided by the LEDs.
A first example is shown on the following photos, the four boxes are different LED lights and give a quite different result from the coldest (bottom left) to the warmest (top left). The best would have been to have a LED next to another sort of light such as a halogen for example.





Here is another example of different warmth of LED lights




It looks like warm LEDs can now be used in a domestic place without making us look too scary.
Of course, there are some application with no risk at all including stair lights, cupboard lights, under cupboard light, floor light and lighting all the other places which are not the main living areas. But it looks like we are now going to be able to use LEDs in the main living areas, if we use the best warm LEDs sources.
LEDs are wonderful to create atmospheric lighting, using coloured lights for example onto a structured surface as see on the following examples.








Another very interesting application of tube lighting I have discovered is to incorprate the light directly on the rails, holding your clothes. I really liked the idea that the clothes would be directly light making it much easier to select our clothes in the cupbaord.

I also have enjoyed looking at glittery light fittings. The light source is a very simple down lighter that direct a source of light onto crystals that glitters and on which the light bounces all around. This sort of fitting is quite spectacular and would suite every house. Szwarosky crystal was used in the following ones:

Glass was used to create this interesting bubbly "tiles" that can be used to create a light fitting, or can be light from underneath or just as a mirror frame. The vendor told me it was used by one of their clients as the tiles in the bottom of a swimming pool! How fantastic!

Emmanuelle Lemoine

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