Phantom Recessed Picture Lighting
Recessed picture lighting has historically been used by lighting professionals as the fixture of choice for effective art lighting. As the paramount goal of art lighting remains always to bring attention to the picture and not the fixtures that illuminate it, recessed picture lighting offers the benefit of low profile equipment with above average aesthetic results. When an art collection consists of similar paintings and a singular theme, choosing recessed picture lights is a relatively simple process of placing the right fixture at the right angle above the artwork. However, if a collection consists of divergent art types, sizes, and genres; and it also includes unique ornamentation and three-dimensional art, then recessed picture lighting becomes a design task (and a consulting fee) over and above a simple purchase. The homeowner has to consider all the pieces in the room and choose carefully the fixtures that will both individually illuminate each piece and maintain a sense of unity throughout the collection’s theme. This can be a challenge and often requires a design company to address the many unexpected subtle nuances that are nonetheless essential to a superior overall outcome.
Recessed picture lights utilize small fixture apertures that help to conceal the fixtures, minimize glare from the source and provide an attractive ceiling appearance. A seemingly endless array of models populate today’s recessed picture lighting market that allow for dimmable light, specialty lighting, and spot lighting effects that provide an unobstructed view of art without hot spots or unsightly glare. Normally this results in a superior illumination effect than cheaper picture frame lights produce, and it also removes the physical fixture from the viewer’s line of sight. As we noted, there are many models on virtually every lighting website that the average homeowner can utilize for a basic art collection with a singular art type and theme. The consulting costs mount higher from that point on as soon as the homeowner adds new pieces to the collection, or seeks to create a multi-theme effect with divergent genres and three-dimensional artwork and sculptures. Getting just the right amount of light on each piece using recessed picture lights alone will prove very difficult if mood, ambience, and a sense of unique mystique are required in the desired outcome.
In response to the growing size and diversity of private art collections, Phantom Lighting System, a manufacturer located in Houston Texas, has developed revolutionary and patented new technology to combine the unobtrusive affects of recessed picture lighting with precision and control never before available to the average homeowner. Like recessed picture lights, Phantom projectors install in the ceilings and remain invisible to the viewer’s normal line of sight. Additionally the Phantom projector allows the art connoisseur to fine tune light levels to set the mood. The name “Phantom” partly derives from the out of sight location of the fixture, but even more importantly from the special form of lighting the projector creates that lighting design firm’s call “lighting from within.” The special combination of beam spread and brightness creates an optical effect that convinces the eye that the light emanates from within the piece, not from an outside source. Recessed picture lighting does not offer this same level of sophistication or ambient mystique, nor does it fully accommodate the needs of sculpture or fine furniture the homeowner wishes to showcase. The Phantom Projector, on the other hand, delivers all of these benefits without abandoning the previous advances made in recessed picture lighting technology. It truly accommodates every level of individual enhancement and complex, thematic interdependency.Perhaps the greatest benefit a homeowner gains from a Phantom Projector, in addition to all of its many technological innovations and user friendliness, is the single purchase of a single unit that requires little to no maintenance or special technicians to service the unit. Whereas the same effect requires hours of labor and consulting fees to properly design and install a recessed Wendel picture light, a Phantom Projector represents a one-time investment with superior longevity, performance and greater customization available directly to the end user.
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