Interior designers know that lighting is crucial to the success of every project. Bad lighting can be simultaneously gloomy and glary – deadening colours and flattening textures, while good lighting can make even basic decorative schemes sing. But lighting is also a highly complex and technical minefield that designers must somehow learn to navigate.
Susie and Jeff are joined by Lee Lovett, founder and managing director of Soho Lighting and award-winning interior designer, Henriette von Stockhausen, founder and Creative Director of VSP Interiors to explore how interior designers should go about managing this critical design element. They also discuss how early in the project cycle lighting should be considered and the lighting knowledge and tools that designers need to succeed at every project stage.
This episode was recorded in that front of a live audience of designers at the Simpsons showroom in the Design Centre Chelsea Harbour.Thanks to our series partners Naturalmat for their support. We are a Wildwood Plus production.
Chapters
- (00:00:00) - The Importance of Lighting in the Interior Design
- (00:01:27) - Both of the Electricians have now reached 25 years of practice
- (00:02:56) - Lighting
- (00:04:38) - Should Lighting be Included in Project Space Planning?
- (00:05:52) - The Lighting of a Home
- (00:07:04) - How to Describe Good Lighting
- (00:09:11) - How Lighting Affects the Client's Mood
- (00:09:43) - How to light a house room
- (00:12:06) - The Art of Architectural Lighting
- (00:13:34) - How to light architectural features indirectly
- (00:15:25) - How to Lighting a Low Ceiling with High Ceilings
- (00:20:07) - How to light a period house?
- (00:22:03) - Natural Mat
- (00:23:13) - Lighting layering
- (00:25:48) - Interior Lighting
- (00:28:36) - Lighting and shadows
- (00:32:08) - In the Elevator: Architectural Lighting
- (00:34:54) - The Perfect Spotlight
- (00:37:47) - Dimming Systems
- (00:40:30) - Setting the lights on and off
- (00:42:11) - The Secret to Lighting Design
- (00:42:58) - Inside The Interior Design Business
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