Creative Lighting: Custom and Decorative Luminaires

by Wanda Jankowski

Creative Custom and Decorative Luminaires is a stunning collection of contract interiors that reveals a proliferation of new, creative possibilities in the lighting field. Luminaires range from the custom lava lamps of Spot Bagel Bakery to the antler chandeliers of the Big Cedar Lodge and the avant-garde, ultramodern lighting sculptures created by Motoko Ishii. Also included is an extensive products section that considers the most up-to-date techniques for shaping and processing materials. These fixtures and locations blend the complex requirements of lighting myriad spaces with the unique visions of the leading lighting and interior designers, and architects. Projects capture the character of buildings and spaces using materials varying from treated papers, textured glass, wire mesh, to faux-painted acrylics, as tradition weds technology in the true spirit of our age.

175 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1997

About the author

Wanda Jankowski is well known to many in the lighting and interior design, and architecture fields. She has been editor-in-chief of Architectural Lighting magazine since 1989. From 1980 to 1985 she was editor-in-chief of Lighting Design + Application magazine and the Journal of IES, both publications of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA). Prior to that she held various editorial positions with the Society and served as staff coordinator for the International Illumination Design Awards Program.

Ms. Jankowski holds a BA from St. Joseph's College and an MA from St. John's University. She has published several books with PBC International including Kitchens and Baths (1993), Designing With Light: Residential Interiors (1991) and The Best of Lighting Design (1987). Ms. Jankowski has authored articles for magazines and newspapers on a variety of subjects, including light, and she is a member of the Authors Guild.


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