內容介紹
線上閱讀本書While it may be easy to visualize fabrics from swatches and largesamples, lighting is much more complex. One cannot touch or feel it, yet it isall around and responsible for what we see. Lighting by Design takes animaginative and creative look at the potential of creating and using light bothinside and outside the home.Since skillful lighting is the balance between light and shade, the book beginswith a discussion on the nature of light and the interplay of light and shadowon buildings inside and out. It demonstrates unique ways to become creative withlight within the home to achieve varying effects from calm softness totheatrical drama. Lighting by Design also offers a comprehensive overview onoutdoor lighting; entrances and exits; roof terraces and decks; and even specialtopics, such as topiaries, swimming pools, and statues. What's more, it alsoincludes timeless advice for using colored light, patterns, and focus, anddemonstrates ways to use lighting to blend garden and interior dimensions into aunified whole.Magnificent full-color photography specially commissioned for this extraordinaryreference details amazing before-and-after effects and creative ways of usingdaylight and artificial light to create new moods. Also included are scores ofinspirational photos that feature the interiors of such well-known designers asJonathan Reed, Mary Fox Linton, Nina Campbell, and Tricia Guild. Packed with elegant ideas, superb examples, and imaginative suggestions forcreating a dramatic and changing environment, Lighting by Design offers a brand- new and innovative perspective on outdoor and indoor decor!
