Designing with Light : The Creative Touch Book

Designing with Light: The Creative Touch shows how designers and architects use light to vitalize objects, surfaces, and environments throughout the home. As architect Ricardo Legorreta states, "Light and architecture go together," and Dr. Carol Soucek King brilliantly reveals the importance of lighting design as an essential and often unifying element. In these pages we see how natural and artificial light, in the past used to perform a sole function, now has a multitude of new roles. Light has the power to characterize and accent rooms; it can convey an aura of intimacy, provide a touch of sophistication and provocatively enhance a home's architectural details with special effects. Dr. King visits over twenty-five home settings of international lighting designers that represent a complete palette of styles and applications, each reflecting the complex requirements of lighting myriad spaces.