Working in collaboration with Tom Dixon Design Research Studio, Chelsom created a dramatic custom lighting scheme for the guestrooms and lobby area of the first ever Mondrian branded boutique hotel outside the United States. Seductive and ...
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GE Lighting’s Chief Innovation Manager, Tom Boyle, discusses how GE is working to provide the modern consumer with LED lighting solutions that are affordable and intuitive. (Photo courtesy of GE) GE Lighting has worked with major ...
In a Hollywood conference room, researchers from the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and product engineers from OSRAM SYLVANIA capped off eight years of research and concept development with a field ...
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Electricity bills are one of those expenditures which we cannot avoid. Therefore, it is imperative during these financially challenging times that people are doing as much as possible to keep the cost of bills down so they have more money ...
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Editor’s Note: The following column By Mike Feinstein, vice president, sales and marketing, Digital Lumens, is part of Modern’s Other Voices column. The series features ideas, opinions and insights from end users, analysts, ...
Track lighting makes it easy to highlight your favorite painting, provide greater visibility in the kitchen or add depth and dimension to any room. It's an ideal choice when you don't have the space for another decorative fixture or you ...
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Installing an appropriate lighting scheme in your bathroom can make a world of difference when it comes to everyday activities such as shaving, applying makeup and brushing your teeth. Since each bathroom is different, there are a variety ...
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Thinking about furnishing a media room? If you are positively in love with your sleek new TV, then maybe it's time to bring your den or family room into focus as a proper media room. Not that we want it to stop functioning as a family ...
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Think of luxury, and you think of velvet, and bubble baths, and caviar, and exquisite bed linen. You think of leather seats, of truffle oil, of perfect white beaches and blue unsullied seas. And you think of dimmer switches, right? Because ...
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LED lighting is going from strength to strength and soon it will render traditional ccc, according to interior experts James and Morris Carey. During the 1990s much was made of the energy efficiency of the compact fluorescent light bulb ...
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LED lights are more energy efficient than fluorescents, but they're also more expensive. And for commercial buildings, a higher upfront cost — even if it makes a return on investment over time — can be hard to overcome. By ...
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There's a three-fixture chandelier hanging in the dining area of my apartment - well, more like the kitchen-side of my long living room, but it's a cozy Manhattan abode in which many rooms serve such double duty. Anyway, the chandelier ...
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Leaps and bounds have been made in LED lighting technology in recent years, with the long-life bulbs running up to 25,000 hours over the duration of their lifetime - around 15 years with normal householder use - and being more energy ...
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There's just something about layers that gives things depth, importance, weight. Huddling under layers of cardigans and light jackets in winter makes you a cosy fashion maven. That second coat of paint is often the one that really makes a ...
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Although CFLs are an excellent source of energy-efficient lighting, they are not always the best choice for all lighting applications. Here are a few limitations to consider: On/Off cycling: CFLs are sensitive to frequent on/off cycling. ...
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