Four Tips for Choosing the Right Lighting

How to find the right fixtures and light for your space

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It’s one of the only things in your home that will motivate you or relax you. That’s how the founder of Edmonton’s Vivid Concepts Lighting + Design required function.” For example, what you find

describes lighting. In terms of importance in design, Nick-Cole Fleshman says that lighting should be number one. “It’s really like jewellery. You get dressed and you look really good but without the jewellery to compliment it, the outfit is not finished.”

Vivid Concepts Lighting + Design specializes in medium to high-end lighting collections. professional lighting designer at Vivid Concepts

It is a design-driven business whose customers are focused on lighting as a special feature in commercial or residential projects.They collaborate with architects, designers, engineers, and builders.

Fleshman has four lighting tips for people to keep in mind when embarking on

Find photos of rooms you like. Having visuals will help to understand the way you want your space to feel. Then you can find the right fixture that will work the way you want it to.

Understand how you want to feel in each room. “Lighting is all about a feeling. It affects your mood. It creates romance. It creates a feeling so that you can cook or clean or relax,” explains Fleshman. Knowing how you want to feel in each room can help you to choose the right fixtures.

Don’t buy based on price. “It’s counterproductive because you will find fixtures that don’t work the way you want them to. Most of the time you won’t find what should be put in the space. You can fail in scale and you can fail in finding the right fixture for the might not give enough light.

Make an appointment with a professional lighting designer. “Come in and sit down with us so that we can pull together a collection of pieces that will be unique to each space.” A design projects:

+ Design can help to pull all the elements together to find the perfect lighting and fixtures.

Fleshman says lighting is very fashionable. There are new collections every year and her team goes to major shows in Europe that represent all the latest in lighting fashion. “We can curate with a designer a really fine collection of fixtures all from different manufacturers from all over the

world. The end result is a collaboration of fixtures

that are unique in each space and room. They’re there together but they are not the same and that is what makes our projects quite unique.” ▶

Anony Highwire Chandelier Highwire is a gravitational balancing act created by tension between two points and a weighted centre. These elegant, individually-weighted disks balance on custom made taut electrical cables thatare produced with a matte finish. This allows the cables to lightly trace shapes in three-dimensional space, creating a flexibility to frame any room setting or furniture arrangement. These modular shapes are further accentuated by a diffused light whichemanates from both sides of each disk—illuminating the surrounding area as well as the fixture. Up to five luminares can be added to a single power drop.

PHOTOGRAPHY BY ZACH HERTZMAN

PHOTOGRAPHY BY ZACH HERTZMAN

Anony Phase Chandelier Inspired by the exquisite balancing act found in hanging kinetic mobiles. Phase light is an interpretation of a circle in three forms: a sphere, a disc, and a melted semi-circle. This vertical fixture is built from the bottom up to stay balanced. Every component of each tier ishand finished and weighted precisely before being attached to the arm. Each tier acts as apredictably weighted foundation for the tier above, where the process repeats. Phase conceals its wires inside the arms while maintaining perfect parallel line structures. Rather than relying on adjustable parts—which shift over time and alter the geometry of the fixture— Phase achieves a fixed equilibrium with weight and steel piping.

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Anony Ohm Pendant Chandelier Ohm takes an innovative approach to the conventional sphere. Its orbiting shade allows a customizable variety of lighting directions which invites curiosity and interaction. Suspended in space by a slim cord, each opal glass orb casts a warm ambient glow. The Ohm’s modular quality makes its application versatile, and it works beautifully displayed as a singular pendant or as a clustered arrangement. www.vividconcepts.ca