What is Visual Comfort Lighting?
Just a few quick thoughts today that you might want to consider for lighting in your home. Seeing something of beauty reaffirms the mind of positivism in the world. Being surrounded by all things beautiful is comforting. It allows us to perceive our daily lives as hopeful and filled with possibilities. When we lounge in our living room at night and we gaze up at the magnificent pendant light at the center of the ceiling, we are overwhelmed by marvel and nostalgia. We are amazed at how such a functional piece of décor that permits us to see the splendor of the night can also be the instrument to help us enjoy its atmosphere of warmth and tranquility.
Exquisite lighting fixtures such as chandeliers, decorative droplights and flamboyant lamps provide us with our much needed lighting requirements. They also create a spectacular image of beauty which in turn captures our disinterested mood and makes it lively and enthused. This is the true essence of visual comfort lighting design. It doesn’t produce a bulb with a sad excuse for a lamp concealing it and regulating its illumination. This type of lighting design brings the characteristics of functionality and physical appeal to the highest level possible. It gives birth to the ambitious designing and manufacturing process of lighting fixtures that are of top quality and unmatched aesthetics. These marvelous lighting designs have been conceived, fabricated and perfected by expert lighting designers from all over the world. Just as in furniture and fashion design, they are presented as collections for the people to admire and consume. Most of them that prove to be well-liked and sought after have been reproduced in order to be commercially available to the public. Some of these designs possess an individualistic quality and would retain its distinctiveness by none repetition of fabrication. They are designed by lighting designers to accommodate the indiscriminate demands of the affluent for visual comfort lighting that can be surpassed by no other in beauty and originality. These clients want to adorn their homes and their privately owned commercial establishments with stylish and well-designed lighting fixtures.
The range of forms and designs of visual comfort lighting are limitless. They vary from traditional chandeliers, contemporary pendant lighting fixtures to the structural and futuristic-looking lamps and droplights. Some of them have elaborate designs and others have simple silhouettes yet despite of this difference what they have in common is an element of grandeur and sophistication that only the exquisitely well-thought out designs are bound to have. They are close to perfect in beauty because every material imaginable has been explored and used in prototypes to find out what works function-wise and what makes the most attractive combinations. They make use of all types of glass such as colored, textured, smoked, frosted and laminated. Metals such as copper, brass, bronze and silver are also made into lighting fixture supports and detailed adornments. Fabric and wood are not exempted. They are made into the shades and cover details of the lighting fixtures. Naturally unique blends and combinations of patterns emerge from this process of creative fabrication. The knowledge of skillful makers of indigenous crafts has also inspired the lighting designers. These intricate patterns evident in weaving and knotting are incorporated in the shades and structures of the light fixtures.
The products from the designers’ collections are available in their individual showrooms and galleries. There are also retailers that carry the brands of lighting fixtures made by various lighting designers such as Bill Blass, Eric Cohler and Thomas O’brien. These collections can also be found on the internet. You can literally choose from hundreds of lighting designers and suppliers who you can sell their products or design a visual comfort lighting just for you. You just have to choose which brands and collections you can select from. The whole collection as you would expect have similar designs and characteristics and it would be quite overwhelming to purchase the entire lot. You can pick one that you fancy best which most likely would be the chandelier or the pendant light. However, if you cannot decide for just one, you can pick 2-3 lighting fixtures from one collection such as a chandelier for the living room, a droplight for the dining room and a floor lamp for the bedroom. Two of these items in an area are enough to provide an awesome attraction with a cohesive and consistent look.