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 space
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
Catedral de Santa AnaLas Palmas
Volvo Car ShowroomDubai
Max Ernst MuseumBrühl
Bailly Diehl boutiqueDarmstadt
Eickhoff shop window KönigsalleDüsseldorf
Centenary HallBochum
Palace of International ForumsTashkent (Uzbekistan)
Uniqlo flagship store SoHoNew York
Iittala flagship storeAmsterdam
Spreitenbach CentreSpreitenbach (bei Zürich)
Hotel NixeBinz
Putna MonasteryPutna (Rumänien)
Fondation BeyelerRiehen, Basel
Lumas galleryDüsseldorf
Neues Museum, BerlinBerlin
Batthyány market hallBudapest
BMW WeltMünchen
DZ Bank, Berlin BranchBerlin
The Rug Company ShowroomStockholm
Kvadrat ShowroomStockholm
Airport Plaza, food hallHamburg
Kartell shopSan Francisco
Company Fashion shopAntwerpen
Brunner Communication CentreRheinau-Freistett
Lufthansa Aviation CenterFrankfurt am Main
D&G ShopLondon
Dreipunkt furniture showroomStuttgart
Terminus galleryMünchen
L'Almoina Archaeological CentreValencia
Yoko YapGötheburg
Legoland GermanyGünzburg
Audi Forum ManhattanNew York
Restaurant TeatteriHelsinki
Ruhrfestival-TheatreRecklinghausen
Guggenheim MuseumBilbao
Honda Car ShowroomDubai
The UffiziFirenze
Carrasco International AirportCarrasco (Montevideo)
Börlind Store & City SpaMailand
Catedral de la SeoZaragoza, Spanien
Leonardo Glass CubeBad Driburg
Starbucks at the AltmarktDresden
Chocolatería Oriol BalaguerBarcelona
Aati FurnitureDubai
Winecenter winery KalternKaltern
Virno boutiqueCava di Tirreni
Christie's auction houseNew York
Sámediggi - the Sámi parliamentKarasjok
An architect's homeDhaka, Bangladesh














Victorinox flagship store London
K21 Art Gallery (Former Parliament Building)
National Portrait Gallery
Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design (Museum of Architecture)
Benetton megastore Kärntner Straße
Domus international furniture
Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG
Chiesa Dives in Misericordia
Scottish Parliament, Holyrood
museum kunst palast, 'Auf Papier' (On Paper) exhibition
Museo de Bellas Artes
MPreis supermarket
Julie Sohn boutique
Camper Store, Kurfürstendamm
Q110 The Deutsche Bank of tomorrow
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (Stuttgart Art Museum)
H.Stern jewellers
Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art
2010 Relighting of the Tokyo International Forum
GB Diamonds shop, Dubai Gold Souq
Sheikh-Zayed-bin-Sultan-Al-Nahyan Mosque
LPP Reserved boutique Chain store
Tokyo International Forum
Agatha Ruiz de la Prada boutique
Trautmannsdorff Castle Touriseum
Toyota Car Showroom
National Gallery
2004 Venice Architecture Biennial
ZARA, Via del Corso
Museo Superior de Bellas Artes Palacio Ferreyra
Tod's Tokyo flagship store
Virgin Megastore, Mall of the Emirates
Nordic Light Hotel
Lexus Car Showroom
Kayser Private home
Centro Cultural Fundación Circulo de Lectores
Expo Shanghai 2010 - German Pavilion
Coburg Palace, Hotel Residenz
De Bijenkorf department store, shop window
'Dinamica' BMW MINI dealership
Xanadú leisure and shopping centre
NORVEG Cultural Centre and Coastal Museum
'Babylon' exhibition, Pergamon Museum
The National Art Center
Colette
Rietberg Museum
Surfection Surf Store
Hagia Sophia
Restaurant Guillaume at Bennelong, Sydney Opera
Pimkie shop, Mall of the Emirates
Private residence in Berlin
ING Bank
Ara Pacis
Coal washery, Mine Zollverein






