L IGHTING
How to pick
the right
lamps,
fixtures, and
lighting
strategies for
each room in
the house.
Use track lighting
sparingly, and make sure it
relates to the space-such
as here where the track
outlines a heavy exposed
beam. Don't locate a track
in the middle of a flat
ceiling.
For millenia, useful artificial lighting could be produced only by an
open flame fed by oil, wax or-toward the end of the 19th
century-piped gas. The electric-power revolution changed this picture
utterly.
While an electric light cannot duplicate the special qualities of
sunlight, it is hard to imagine a world without it. Electric lighting is
everywhere: in our vehicles, our streets, our buildings, our movie
projectors and TV picture tubes, our signs.
Our strategy