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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.

Labels: Custom Art Lights, Fine art lighting, High-End Lighting, Interior Accent Lighting, Optical Wendel Projectors

Friday, October 28, 2005

Phantom Fine Art Lighting Projectors & Phantom Lighting Strips From Illuminations Lighting Design.

Phantom Lighting is the brainchild of Illuminations Lighting Design, a Houston based lighting design build firm over 20 years ago. The company holds several patents for Phantom Lighting fixtures and is continuously working to add new products as needs develop and technologies evolve. The Phantom Lighting concept was simple at first and quickly grew into one of the most effective accent lighting fixture selections on the market today for fine art illumination and display lighting. The Phantom Lighting System is comprised of two main product categories: Phantom Contour Projector and Phantom Lighting Strips.

Phantom Lighting Strips
Phantom low voltage lighting strips were introduced in the early 80's to illuminate bookcases, breakfronts, armoires, shelves and display cases. The early lighting strips were hand fabricated on site by skilled craftsmen and perfectly fitted inside furniture, antiques and shelving for display applications. Today, we follow that same model and carefully fabricate each order to insure that the light was built for the cabinet and not just modified to fit. The adjustable shelf concept, our legendary patented process allows for completely adjustable shelves, without the need for tools or unsightly exposed wiring. Phantom lighting strips are simple by design, but highly flexible due to various trim configurations which allow for hiding the lamps and providing glare free continuous illuminations. Models are available for horizontal mounting, vertical mounting, indirect mounting and radius applications. With a variety of incandescent and xenon lamps in both 12 and 24 volts, Phantom Lighting Systems is a leader in linear display and strip lighting. See our article in Aprill issue of LD+A Magazine.

Phantom Contour Projectors
Phantom Contour Projectors, another product from the designers at Illuminations, are high performance lighting instruments created specifically for illuminating fine art. They utilize precision lenses, halogen lamps and a patented masking technique to contour focused light onto the art or sculpture with spectacular results. In fact, you can illuminate one or more paintings individually from one source regardless of the shape of the art. For years the Wendel projector was the standard for fine art lighting, but not anymore. Developments in lamp technology, optics and energy savings requirements have been incorporated into the Phantom Contour Projector. This equates to a smaller, more efficient, cooling running, cost effective optical framing projector. The Phantom Contour Projector has now become the projector of choice by lighting and design professionals. Architects, engineers, lighting designers and discriminating clients all agree that the Phantom Contour Projector looks better, is easier to install and requires no formal training to acheive world class results.

Imagine a space where fine art appears to come alive, where paintings appear to leap off the walls, where pictures appear to be illuminated from within. Imagine a museum where sculptures seem to float, magically suspended and enlivened by some unseen source of light. Imagine canvases and statues transformed by lighting that breathes life into each image. Now imagine actually creating such a space in your home, office, gallery or museum. That's what Phantom Lighting is all about!

To learn more about Phantom Lighting contact us to request a catalog or call toll free at 800-863-1184. You can also visit us online at one of the following web address: www.phantomlighting.com

Come see what Phantom Lighting is all about at Light Fair 2006. Light Fair International is the world's largest annual architectural and commercial lighting trade show and conference. The trade show and conference is being held May 30th through June 1st at the Las Vegas Convention Center, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Phantom Lighting booth will be located in the center of the hall as Booth 2742. Click here to see a floor plan of the convention center illustrating our location.

Labels: Contour Projector, Fine Art Lighting Consultants, Fine Art Lighting Equipment, Interior Accent Lighting, Picture Lighting Solutions, Wendel Projector