Object
Objects can be accentuated with great effect to turn them into real eye-catchers. Visual impressions can be given an unusual appearance by selecting a crisp edged illumination. The opposite of such dramatic lighting is a uniform, large area lighting solution.
Object in the room
Observation

Objects in the room or area can be illuminated flexibly using track-mounted spotlights or floodlights. When illuminating an object with one spotlight in the direction of vision, the modelling effect is weak. Two spotlights, with sculpture accessories, shining from different directions create a balanced, three-dimensional effect. The brightness contrasts are milder compared to when using just one spotlight. Illuminating from below produces interesting effects since the light is coming from an angle which is unusual for the observer.
Narrow beam spotlights accentuate the object while floodlights show the object in the context of its surroundings. This reduces the modelling effect. Lighting from below can have the effect of making things look very strange. The possibility of dazzle must be prevented here in particular.
Arrangement
Objects in the room can be illuminated with an angle of incidence of 30° to 45° to the vertical. The steeper the incident light, the stronger the shadows. When the angle of incidence is 30°, strong reflection or undesirable shadows on people and objects are avoided.
Applications
Accent lighting for
- museums
- exhibitions
- trade-fair stands
- sales and representational areas
Preferred luminaire groups
- spotlights
- floodlights
Passeig de Gràcia, Barcelona
Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg
Object on the wall
Observation

Objects on the wall can be flexibly illuminated with track-mounted spotlights or floodlights.Spotlights highlight the wall-mounted picture. and create a decorative effect. ndividual wallwashers accentuate the picture more discretely than spotlights. everal wallwashers illuminate the wall evenly. The object is not emphasised. loodlights provide a homogenous illumination of the entire wall surface. A contour spotlight ensures very strong, effective emphasis of the wall-mounted picture.
Narrow beam spotlights accentuate the object while floodlights show the object in the context of its surroundings. Contour spotlights can illuminate the object with a crisp focused beam and thus highlight particularly well. This can result in an effect that makes the object look strange because the object itself seems to emit light.
Arrangement
Objects on the wall can be illuminated with an angle of incidence of 30° to 45° to the vertical. The steeper the incident light, the more vivid the object appears. On reflective surfaces, e.g. artworks behind glass or oil paintings, care must be taken that the angle of incidence does not cause secondary glare in the observer's line of vision. In addition, unwanted shadow, e.g. cast by the picture frame onto the picture surface, should also be avoided.
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Projects on this guide topic
Max Ernst MuseumBrühl
Bailly Diehl boutiqueDarmstadt
Palace of International ForumsTashkent (Uzbekistan)
OseanaOs (Bergen)
Putna MonasteryPutna (Rumänien)
Fondation BeyelerRiehen, Basel
Lumas galleryDüsseldorf
Airport Plaza, food hallHamburg
Scottish Parliament, HolyroodEdinburgh
Museo de Bellas ArtesGranada
Julie Sohn boutiqueBarcelona
Company Fashion shopAntwerpen
Duvetica showroomMilan
Brunner Communication CentreRheinau-Freistett
Lufthansa Aviation CenterFrankfurt am Main
Dreipunkt furniture showroomStuttgart
Château de Versailles, exhibition hallsVersailles
Toyota Car ShowroomDubai
National GalleryLondon
Stiefelkönig shoe shopVienna
Yoko YapGöteborg
Legoland GermanyGünzburg
Restaurant TeatteriHelsinki
Ruhrfestival-TheatreRecklinghausen
Carrasco International AirportCarrasco (Montevideo)
Starbucks at the AltmarktDresden
An architect's homeDhaka, Bangladesh
Rietberg MuseumZürich
ING BankAmsterdam
Ara PacisRom
Catedral de Santa AnaLas Palmas
Volvo Car ShowroomDubai
Eickhoff shop window KönigsalleDüsseldorf
Centenary HallBochum
Durbar Hall, Kochi BiennaleKochi (Kerala)
Uniqlo flagship store SoHoNew York
Iittala flagship storeAmsterdam
Spreitenbach CentreSpreitenbach (bei Zürich)
Forsblom GalleryHelsinki
Hotel NixeBinz
Neues Museum, BerlinBerlin
D&G ShopLondon
LPP Reserved boutique Chain storeWarschau,Bydgoszcz
National Museum of WalesCardiff
Terminus galleryMünchen
L'Almoina Archaeological CentreValencia
Poggenpohl showroom, Park AvenueNew York, NY
Audi Forum ManhattanNew York
Guggenheim MuseumBilbao
Honda Car ShowroomDubai
The UffiziFirenze
Börlind Store & City SpaMailand
Catedral de la SeoZaragoza, Spanien
Nordic Light HotelStockholm
Chocolatería Oriol BalaguerBarcelona
Aati FurnitureDubai
Winecenter winery KalternKaltern
Virno boutiqueCava di Tirreni
Christie's auction houseNew York
Sámediggi - the Sámi parliamentKarasjok











Situations in hotels: Reception
Company foyer - Product presentation
Victorinox flagship store London
BSH Bosch Siemens Hausgeräte Netherlands
Gallerie d’Italia, Piazza Scala
Batthyány market hall
K21 Art Gallery (Former Parliament Building)
BMW Welt
Boutique in Paris
Fashion store
Kvadrat Showroom
Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design (Museum of Architecture)
Benetton megastore Kärntner Straße
Domus international furniture
Architecture and theatre
Situations in the hotel: Lobby
MPreis supermarket
Radiance and illumination
Camper Store, Kurfürstendamm
Looking in and looking out
Q110 The Deutsche Bank of tomorrow
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (Stuttgart Art Museum)
Gallery
Pizza Hut restaurant, Mill Lane Arcade
Slow and fast
GB Diamonds shop, Dubai Gold Souq
Sheikh-Zayed-bin-Sultan-Al-Nahyan Mosque
Tokyo International Forum
Agatha Ruiz de la Prada boutique
Trautmannsdorff Castle Touriseum
Multifunctional room: Gala
2004 Venice Architecture Biennial
ZARA, Via del Corso
Museo Superior de Bellas Artes Palacio Ferreyra
Tod's Tokyo flagship store
Efficient visual comfort: Shop window
Gallery
General and dedicated
Medical practice reception
Living space
Situations in the hotel: Restaurant
Diffuse and directed
Lexus Car Showroom
Kayser Private home
Expo Shanghai 2010 - German Pavilion
Coburg Palace, Hotel Residenz
Leonardo Glass Cube
adidas NEO Store, Tauentzienstrasse
Furniture store
Xanadú leisure and shopping centre
NORVEG Cultural Centre and Coastal Museum
The National Art Center
Restaurant Guillaume at Bennelong, Sydney Opera
Pimkie shop, Mall of the Emirates
Private residence in Berlin
Brilliance and glare
Steigenberger Grandhotel Handelshof
Natural and artificial
Shop window
National Portrait Gallery
Car dealership
DZ Bank, Berlin Branch
The Rug Company Showroom
Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG
Kartell shop
Chiesa Dives in Misericordia
Vertical and horizontal
museum kunst palast, 'Auf Papier' (On Paper) exhibition
Efficient visual comfort: Fashion department store
H.Stern jewellers
Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art
Situations in hotels: Bar
2010 Relighting of the Tokyo International Forum
Leica trade fair stand and gallery, Photokina 2012
Efficient visual comfort: Shelf
Efficiency and excess
Multifunctional room: Seminar
Virgin Megastore, Mall of the Emirates
Furniture exhibition
Centro Cultural Fundación Circulo de Lectores
Light and dark
De Bijenkorf department store, shop window
'Dinamica' BMW MINI dealership
Neutral and expressive
'Babylon' exhibition, Pergamon Museum
Colette
Surfection Surf Store
Berne Art Museum, Industrious exhibition
Hagia Sophia
Coal washery, Mine Zollverein







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