Friday, August 14, 2009


Houston Art Lighting Installation


To get superior results when lighting your art collection, we recommend you obtain your art lighting fixtures and art lighting design services from ILD. The type of equipment we provide is high-end, sensitive, and requires considerable technical and design expertise to select, install, and maintain the appropriate high quality art lighting fixtures.

Our first priority is to make sure that your artwork lighting fixtures are performing at optimal levels. We have seen, in many cases that the integrity of some lamps will gradually deteriorate and depreciate. On MR16 lamps, for instance, this degradation causes color to shift either to the red or green end of the spectrum. People typically do not notice this shift, because the change is so subtle and gradual that their eyes adjusted to the change daily without ever consciously being aware of the deterioration. It is for this reason that we recommend you have a trained professional periodically examine your artwork lighting and test your equipment for this deterioration and upgrade to a better, more efficient replacement when necessary.

Many times as well, we run across clients who have installed high voltage art lighting fixtures. This is often done by people who purchase retail-grade equipment themselves and hire an electrician to install it. The problem with high voltage equipment is that it does not have the same lamp selection as line voltage fixtures use for fine art lighting applications. Low voltage lights generally have better beam control, far less UV radiation, and consume much less power than high voltage equivalents.

If you upgrade now, you will start saving you money on electrical costs in two respects. Cooling costs will be lower if the room temperature remains at a lower constant. Power bills will also decrease because there is less electricity consumed by the lamps themselves.

Low voltage recessed art lighting equipment has become so effective that manufacturers now make a plethora of art lighting fixtures in low voltage models. Everything from optical framing projectors, eyeball fixtures, recessed art lights, pinhole lights, and even track lights can now be obtained in low voltage models. We advise that if you are using any high voltage lights that you upgrade now to more current, more energy efficient low-voltage fixtures. You will both recover your investment through power cost savings, and you will be able to light your paintings for longer periods of time without fear of heat buildup. For those with track lights, you can even upgrade the fixtures without having to replace the track itself.

Because so many of the systems we service have been not really been strategically designed, but instead piece mealed over time, it is not unusual for us to encounter a mixture of specification grade and retail grade art lighting fixtures in a single room. As a professional lighting design firm that maintains a relationship with art lighting manufacturers, we are always happy to help our clients select and replace inferior grade products with high-end upgrades. This saves corporate art consultants and art curators a tremendous amount of money in cumulative replacement costs. Specification grade fixtures usually feature a longer lamp life and a more predictable performance curve. By upgrading the entire system now, you will only spend money in the form of a onetime purchase. Over time, you will get money back through the savings you accumulate by minimizing constant equipment replacements.

We always save our clients money by giving them as much direct control as possible over their picture lighting fixtures by installing lighting control systems. Lighting control can be placed completely in the hands of the end user and combined with other light sources in the building to create scenes and added convenience. ILD represents a number of home automation control manufacturers whose advanced, whole house lighting control technologies will allow you to set any light level you wish for both groups of lights and individual lights. This creates a multiplicity of luminance layers and effects.

Both specification grade art lighting fixtures and advanced technical services are much more affordable when managed under an interior lighting maintenance service agreement. Both curators and private art collectors can depend on receiving all of the above benefits more consistently and at better labor rates with a marginal investment in consistent, periodic visits by an Illuminations art lighting designer.

ILD is a premier fine art lighting company in Houston Texas. We have worked for and lighted some of the world’s most prestigious public and private art collections including works from renowned artists such as Chagall, Picasso, Matisse, Renoir, Rockwell, Salvador Dali and Rembrandt. By calling upon the most innovative artwork lighting techniques in the world, you can rest assured that your treasured pieces will shine as brightly as the artist’s true vision. Visit our testimonials page for customer feedback.

Simply stated, our staff is Illuminations Lighting Design's greatest asset. We are fortunate as an electrical contractor to have built such a highly skilled workforce of craftsmen and mechanics who enjoy what they do. Working with integrity and efficiency, they will treat your home with respect while ensuring the job gets done right. Their pride, persistence, quality and determination are the hallmark of Illuminations Lighting Design's tradition.

We are located in Houston Texas but provide lighting and lighting design in Austin TX, El Paso Texas, San Antonio TX, College Station Texas, Beaumont TX, Dallas Texas, Midland Tx and points beyond.

You can reach us toll free at 800-863-1184 or locally at 713-863-1133.

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Wednesday, July 11, 2007


The importance of choosing the right lighting for your fine art cannot be emphasized enough!


Fine Art Lighting brings out the hidden value that lies dormant in so many older works of art, and it adds value to rare, expensive, and original pieces that deserve a spotlight of their own. The importance of choosing the right lighting for your fine art cannot be emphasized enough, and making the wrong choices could diminish the appearance of your most prized paintings or even worse inadvertently damage certain oils and canvases. For this reason, Illuminations Lighting and Design heads up a team of specialists whose training and experience guide commercial and individual clients into making the best investments possible in fine art lighting and design. Houston art galleries and Texas homeowners alike come to us when they need someone they can rely on to engineer the creative as well as the technical aspects of their new lighting layout.

When you call Illuminations Lighting and Design for
fine art lights and design services, we immediately begin with a personal, in-house consultation focused on getting a feel for your aesthetic taste and determining key technical details such as fixture size, lamp wattage, and fine art lighting placement relative to your art design theme. We also take careful note of the genres, nature, and sizes of your individual works of art so we can develop an overall theme that highlights individual specifics within a unified field of illumination. If you decorate shelves, bookcases, and tables with sculpture, we can customize our patented framing projectors to light these objects along with your fine art. Our proprietary techniques enable us to illuminate paintings, sculptures, and other items without glare or spill light. Over the years, our experience serving collectors of Chagall, Picasso, Matisse, Renoir, Rockwell, Dali, and Rembrandt has honed our skills in lighting fine art to pinpoint technical accuracy and made us adept in an aesthetic realm that most technical companies fear to approach.

What we learn in our first consultation helps us to then form a detailed technical plan to make your fine art lighting dreams a reality. One of the many benefits you can count on when you choose ILD is the many distributor relationships we hold with the world’s top fine art light manufacturers. These relationships give you the added value of having your consulting team also serve as your vendor, thus eliminating the need for multiple sources and complicated purchasing procedures. Our knowledge of fine art lighting fixtures has developed through years of hands-on experience working with everything from low voltage accent lights for fine art to complex Wendel optical light projectors. Most importantly, as your vendor we will be qualified to install new components for you any time you add work to your collection that requires a lighting upgrade.

Give us a call today to get started on bringing the best look to your investments with
fine art lighting materials and creative strategies. Watch your home add sophistication to comfort by choosing Texas’s best experts as your one-shop solution for new ideas and new realities in light. Give us a call at 800-863-1184.

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Friday, September 16, 2005


Disney selects Phantom Lighting for Parrot Cay restaurant on Disney Magic cruise ship.


When the imagineers at Disney wanted a special lighting projector to enhance the interior of the Parrot Cay restaurant, on the cruise ship Disney Magic, they specified Phantom Lighting a creation of Illuminations Lighting Design. What the Disney designers envisioned was a small recessed optical framing projector that would project patterns of light onto the walls and draperies to create a magical effect. They needed a framing projector that would project focused light, fit into a tight space, produce very little heat, operate at 220 volts and ship quickly. In order to meet Disney's specific resort lighting needs, the technicians at Phantom Lighting fabricated a custom holder that would accept a stainless steel pattern filter, or "gobo," which is typically used in theatrical lighting.

In addition, the Disney designers specified and are using Phantom Strip Lights in several of the many display cases located in a boutique on the ship. The small linear light source with remote transformers was perfect for the application.

In addition to creating a dazzling theatrical environment for the Disney company, the Phantom Contour Projector, with its control and precision, is the perfect compliment to your fine art collection. It truly brings objects of art to life - colors become more vivid and rich, forms more lustrous and distinct. The splendor of your art will dazzle you when you add the artistic illumination provided by the Phantom Contour Projector to creatively affect the palette of mood, whether bright and illustrious or subtle and warm.

This form of art lighting intensifies the magnificence of your art with a contoured light beam that flawlessly embraces the distinct outline of your individual pieces of art. Through the use of its standard or custom designed templates and an unbroken line of direct lighting, the Phantom Contour Projector provides luminescence for single, multiple and irregularly shaped art objects. Three different art lighting applications - one projector. With cutting-edge technology, this unseen projector can be used as far as 30 feet away to as close as just a few feet. The richness of your art will illuminate your environment with beauty and splendor. Additionally, Phantom offers five different housings to meet the needs of any project, from a remodel to a top access to surface mount.

Because needs are diverse, the Contour Projector provides options to fit almost any situation--whether you're one of the world's leading entertainment companies or simply looking to beautify your own home. For more information regarding Phantom Lighting System, please visit or call toll free 800-863-1184 to speak with Tom Kretzschmar.

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