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TECHNOLOGY / CASE STUDIES HANDED DOWN LONDON PRIDE
The Cheapside Hoard, the world’s largest collection of late-16th and early-17th-century jewels has been lit by Precision fixtures.
A record breaking collection of jewels on display at the museum of London has been lit by Precision Lighting’s Pico 1 Surface LED spotlights.
The Cheapside Hoard includes finger rings, cascading necklaces, Byzantine cameos, a beautiful jewelled scent bottle and a unique Colombian emerald watch, the priceless collection of jewels representing the City of London’s most exquisite stash of buried treasure and the single most important source of knowledge on early modern jewellery worldwide. Lighting Designers Studio ZNA chose Pico luminaires to light the high security display cases housing the priceless due to their accuracy and light quality. The Pico 1 is a small, discreet spotlight with a body machined from aerospace-grade 6063-T6 aluminium. 108 Pico down-lights and their drivers help to draw visitors’ view below a horizontal line, focusing their gaze away from the surrounding contemporary architecture. A further 28 surface-mounted Picos, also
within the cases, provide up-lighting. The lighting design incorporated existing fixtures, including tungsten halogen fibre optic point sources to illuminate the exhibition’s title wall.
The tabletop cases and graphics were lit
with existing track-mounted beam shapers, while LED and cooler tungsten halogen colour temperatures work particularly well together.
www.precisionlighting.co.uk
OH BOP, FASHION
Xicato’s New York charity fashion show featured the regarded Vibrant Series LED module, which aims to cast fashion in a detailed new light.
Xicato presented a fashion show and silent auction to benefit the Bailey House at the Steven Kasher Gallery in Midtown Manhattan at the end of 2013.
For 30 years, Bailey House has provided homes and support to people living with HIV/AIDS, spreading the charity’s mission that housing is a human right. Hosted by celebrated photographer Roxanne Lowit, whose work has featured prominently in Vanity Fair, the silent auction brought the event to a conclusion, with fashions from Cynthia Rowley, Mara Hoffman, Lulu Guinness, Douglas Hannant, Nicholas Kirkwood, BCBG Max Azria, and Tod’s all being auctioned off, for hopefully extortionate prices, in order to support the charity’s good work.
The event featured various models, all lit by Lighting Services Inc’s LumeLEX 2060 LED Series fixtures, equipped with Xicato’s new ‘Vibrant Series’ LED modules. Scenes
changed at one-minute intervals providing an opportunity for the audience comprised of fashion, retail and lighting designers to compare how different types of light can affect the perception of the clothing. Using only the house wiring that was already in place, the LumeLEX 2060 Series fixtures were controlled through Lumentalk
(via iPad) to program the various scenes for lighting the fashion models.
Introduced onto the market last Summer, Xicato’s ‘Vibrant Series’ has been used by designers due to its ability to bring out textures and highlight the depth of materials.
www.xicato.com
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