Indoor & Outdoor Lighting

Lighting Applications | Feb 08, 2011
Atmospheric Tension: LED Luminaires for Living Rooms, Spa Areas and Outdoors
Atmospheric Tension: LED Luminaires for Living Rooms, Spa Areas and Outdoors LED luminaires and ingenious lighting design help create the right atmosphere in a new house on Stuttgart‘s slopes below the city‘s television tower. The LED lighting concept realized outside is maintained throughout the entire interior. According to Hans-Georg Popp, the building‘s architect, the interior pursues a theme which is „on the whole classical“. Read more »
Lighting Applications | Jul 08, 2010
Toshiba LEDs To Light Up the Louvre Museum - Toshiba and Louvre Sign a Partnership Agreement
Toshiba LEDs To Light Up the Louvre Museum - Toshiba and Louvre Sign a Partnership Agreement Toshiba Corporation announced that it has concluded that it will help to light up one of the world's most popular museums under a partnership agreement with the Louvre Museum in its lighting renovation project. Under the agreement, Toshiba will support lighting renovations in some of the museums most visited public spaces with provision of its state-of-the art LED lighting and renovation costs. Read more »
Lighting Applications | Jul 27, 2010
Energy-Saving LED Showcases Shed New Light on Denmark’s Crown Jewels
Energy-Saving LED Showcases Shed New Light on Denmark’s Crown Jewels New solid-state showcase fixtures utilizing LUXEON® Rebel LEDs are changing the way that Denmark’s Rosenborg Castle lights its popular collection of crown jewels and decorative objects, enabling an 80% energy savings as well as a dramatic reduction in incandescent-generated heat that threatened to damage the royal relics. Read more »
Lighting Applications | Mar 03, 2011
New Energy-Efficient Lighting Saves € 10,000 per Year at Nature Museum
New Energy-Efficient Lighting Saves € 10,000 per Year at Nature Museum Thanks to a new, energy-efficient LED lighting solution by Zumtobel, the Inatura Nature Museum in Dornbirn/Austria has started into a new lighting era. The museum’s previous lighting system using conventional spotlights has been replaced by advanced, energy-saving LED spotlights. With its compact, clear design, the Supersystem lighting system blends perfectly into the museum architecture. Inatura’s new lighting solution features 3-phase LED units, each including 3 LED spots with 2.6 W each, which have been installed in the entrance area as well as in large parts of the exhibition area. The client opted for Supersystem mainly because the old spotlights could simply be disassembled, allowing Supersystem units to be installed in the track system in place. Read more »
Lighting Applications | Jun 11, 2011
Philips Lighting Illuminates World Class Art with LED Lighting
Philips Lighting Illuminates World Class Art with LED Lighting Illumination of art is an art in itself and Philips Lighting knows how to do this best. 1,000 Philips Fortimo LED SLM modules 2000lm 33W/830 were installed in the ‘MAS’ (Museum aan de Stroom) in Antwerp, Belgium making the ‘MAS’ the first museum in the Benelux illuminating all its precious art with LED lighting. Read more »
Lighting Applications | Oct 28, 2011
Philips Sheds New Light on Night Watch at the Rijksmuseum
Philips Sheds New Light on Night Watch at the Rijksmuseum Royal Philips announced today that starting on October 26, one of the world’s most renowned paintings will be bathed in a new light. Philips, Founder of the renovated Amsterdam Rijksmuseum, presents Rembrandt van Rijn’s Night Watch in innovative LED light, bringing out the best of the painting’s color palette while offering increased sustainability and energy efficiency. Through the project, the two Masters of Light are reinforcing their intensive collaboration aimed at joint innovation in the area of LED lighting, setting the new standard for museum lighting. Read more »
Lighting Applications | May 24, 2012
Toshiba to Light up the Mona Lisa with LED and Extend Partnership with Louvre to Interior Lighting
Toshiba to Light up the Mona Lisa with LED and Extend Partnership with Louvre to Interior Lighting Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has reached a basic agreement with the Louvre Museum to replace part of the interior lighting of the Louvre with its own LED lighting. This is Phase 2 of a renovation project that Toshiba Corporation and the Louvre Museum have pursued in partnership since 2010. This next project phase will see renovation of LED lighting in important interior spaces of the museum. It includes specific exhibit lighting for Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, and for the Red Rooms, which display famous masterpieces such as Jacques-Louis David’s Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon I and Coronation of the Empress Josephine, as well as the Napoleon Hall, the Louvre’s main entrance. Read more »
News-Spot | Lighting Applications | Mar 01, 2013
Contemporary Lighting Art by Zumtobel at the New Re-Opened Kunstkammer Wien
Contemporary Lighting Art by Zumtobel at the New Re-Opened Kunstkammer Wien After having been closed for more than 10 years, the Kunstkammer was presented to the public again on 1 March, with the explicit goal of making the history of the Habsburg collection and its most important figureheads known to an interested contemporary audience. The highest conservation requirements, content-related didactic criteria, but also emotional factors played an equally essential role for the new presentation of the Kunstkammer. Yet, the 2,200 exhibits included in the collection could not be more different in nature: among the highlights are outstanding works of the goldsmith’s art, such as the famous Saliera by Benvenuto Cellini, first-rate specimens of sculpture, such as the Krumau Madonna, masterly bronze statuettes, filigree ivory objects, but also precious clocks, games and scientific instruments. Read more »
Lighting Applications | Aug 07, 2013
ETC Source Four LED™ Lights World’s Longest Viking Ship
ETC Source Four LED™ Lights World’s Longest Viking Ship Around 1025 AD, a fierce 120-foot Viking warship of the Danish fleet rode the northern waves. Excavated in 1997 from a Roskilde fjord bed, the ship has now been partly restored. A massive steel skeleton has been built around its wooden remains. Roskilde 6 makes a new ‘voyage,’ in the National Museum of Denmark’s exhibit Viking, June 22nd-November 17th, 2013. ETC’s Source Four LED™ fixtures, controlled by an ETC Ion® console and Unison Paradigm® system, bring the vessel to light. Read more »
Art + Museum Lighting | News-Spot | Lighting Applications | Nov 04, 2013
Osram Illuminates the Sistine Chapel with a New LED Solution
Osram Illuminates the Sistine Chapel with a New LED Solution The light manufacturer Osram is equipping the Sistine Chapel in Rome with a new type of LED solution. After 500 years, the art-historically outstanding works can now be viewed to a level of precision unique until now, and the especially art-conserving installation enables significantly higher illuminance values. In addition, 60% less power is consumed compared to the existing lighting installation. "Art presents the most demanding requirements on light. Following the globally unique lighting solution in the Lenbachhaus Museum in Munich, the world-renowned frescoes in the Sistine Chapel are now being subjected to the same extremely high lighting specifications, once again underlining the authority of Osram as integrated lighting expert operating in accordance with maximum specifications," stated Peter Laier, Osram’s Chief Technology Officer and executive board member responsible for the company’s general lighting business. Read more »
Lighting Applications | Jul 27, 2010
MULTIFORM Creates a Fountain of Magic
MULTIFORM Creates a Fountain of Magic Multiform Lighting were recently contacted by Environetics, suppliers of ‘Magic Fountain’ systems, who were intending to use their MultiPac 4 channel DMX dimmer to control fountain pumps and lighting in their new ‘Solo Mio’ sound activated plus interactive fountain systems. Read more »
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