Ultimate Lighting Design [Hardcover]

teNeues (Creator)

Book Description

Series: Ultimate | Publication Date: July 15, 2005

The lighting designer is at once an artist and an engineer. He uses the best technology available to reveal scope, space, and form - both in landscapes and in urban environments - and aims to do so in a way that achieves a functional, creative, and environmental result. This relatively recent profession is the focus of the latest title in teNeues Ultimate series. Lighting Design presents an illustrated overview of Herve Descottes many projects. Founder of the renowned New York design firm LObservatoire International, Descottes collaborated with architects such as Frank Gehry (Walt Disney Concert Hall, LA), Mario Botta, Jean Nouvel and OMA/Rem Koolhaas (three museums in Seoul, South Korea), and Richard Meier (Restaurant 66, New York City).

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A lavishly illustrated guide to lighting design through the varied projects of the renowned New York firm L’Observatoire International. Projects illustrated include concert halls, restaurants, and museums in Europe, North America and Asia as well as a pollution control plant and urban land- scapes in New York.

About the Author

Hervé Descottes is an award-winning architectural lighting designer. He founded the New York City design firm L’Observatoire International after eight years of design practice in Paris.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 528 pages
• Publisher: teNeues (July 15, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3832790160
• ISBN-13: 978-3832790165
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 8 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,362,760 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #96 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Interior Design > Lighting

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Idea Book of What Lighting Can Do to a Basic Design, March 6, 2006

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John Matlock "Gunny" (Winnemucca, NV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ultimate Lighting Design (Hardcover)

This large, profusely illustrated, multi lingual book illustrated the lighting projects of Herve Descottes and his company L'Observatoire International. These projects are largely for commercial building such as concert halls, churches, theaters, art galleries and a few restaurants/lounges. But then to round it off, there are projects like the lighting of Columbus Circle in New York City and perhaps the most strange, the Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island.

This book makes it clear that advanced and sophisticated lighting techniques are as an important a part in the basic design of a building as is the design of the structure itself. This is basically an idea book. Looking over these successful designs to see what was created using something as ephemeral as light. Something that we see, but which really isn't there.