LED Lighting

Piano Pavilion at the Kimbell Art Museum turns on with LEDs

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The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas will open the new 101,130 square foot colonnaded Piano Pavilion, designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) and Kendall/Heaton Associates on November 27, 2013.

Arup Lighting, based in the United Kingdom provided Lighting consultancy as well as mechanical and electrical engineering on the project.  Arup developed and designed custom systems to conserve and display the art in the most appropriate environmental conditions, while reducing carbon emissions.

LSI's LumeLEX 2044 LED Series on "You Tube"

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We are pleased to announce that we have posted another video on the Lighting Services Inc "You Tube" Channel.   The new video demonstrates the features of the clean, elegant stem mounted LumeLEX 2044 Series LED fixture that blends harmoniously into any architectural setting.

Utilizing the Xicato LED module, the LumeLEX 2044 produces the most consistent, highest quality white light and maintains extremely tight color control.

 

LED Usage in Museums and Art Galleries

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by: Raghuram Petluri; Roger Sexton

Introduction

LEDs provide an energy and maintenance saving alternative to halogen for museum lighting. Previously high Color Temperature single phosphor corrected white LEDs had shortcomings with gaps in the spectrum affecting accurate color discrimination and high outputs / spikes in the blue area affecting color degradation. Recent improvements in LED technology make their usage ideal in all areas, light sensitive and insensitive alike. This paper takes the Artist Series module from Xicato to quantify this statement.