It is funny how the weather can influence my ability to do things. During the nice season, I am extremely happy to go to trade shows, and I still am in October, but from November I find it harder to leave the comfort of the practice, I suspect the limited amount of day light to be part of the cause for this.
So, this morning was no exception, it was hard to motivate myself to go to the Arc Show, a show I had never been to, but which sounded extremely interesting as it is about lighting, and I love lighting and lighting schemes. For me, a wonderful design scheme badly lit is only going to look average, whereas an average scheme well lit will look fantsatic.
I finally managed to push myself outside and went to the business centre in Islington. Of course, as soon as I arrived there, I completely forgot about the weather and light-bathe under all the shiny light spots.
LED lights are all over the place and have been presented as extremely powerful and economic, the remaining problem being their very cold colour, making them difficult to use in residential interiors, unless you were attracted to the ghost look. In the last few years, LEDs have evolved dramatically and are now offering a full range of light temperature from the coldest to the warm range, willing to compete with the halogens lamps.
I remember back in September (100% Design) a manufacturer displaying the same vase of flowers lit by a halogen source and a LED and challenging you to find which one was which. I was surprised to see that both lights were similar, but I still could identify quickly the LED and the Halogen one.
Today, LED lighting had again the first place in the show, but I couldn’t find any exhibitor displaying both the LED and halogen together.
Let me sort all my photos out and I will show you my findings very soon.
Emmanuelle Lemoine
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