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At the St. Bernard and Reading branches of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, the children’s play and lounge areas are illuminated by modern commercial pendant lighting adorned with whimsical and inspiring words. Christine Madden from Champlin Architecture collaborated closely with the library lighting team to create a welcoming and imaginative environment for young explorers. Central to this vision was the integration of custom graphics, designed to engage and delight.

“The director envisioned a playful mix of words typically associated with libraries and expressions of a love for books,” Christine recalls. Words like “shhh,” “love books,” and “time” were selected to evoke curiosity and joy. The placement of these words was equally important; the design encourages children to look up from the floor, as the building features soaring ceilings and an abundance of floor-to-ceiling windows. The solution? Striking modern library lights that are both subtle and eye-catching.

This is where Lumetta’s custom capabilities shined. They crafted multiple Lite drum pendants, with white acrylic tops and etched white bottom lenses, all showcasing custom-printed graphics. The pendants were strategically staggered in height and arranged to fill the light-filled spaces effectively. “At night, these custom pendants glow like lanterns visible from the street, capturing children’s curiosity and providing a sense of levity for adults,” Christine adds.

Photography by Ryan Kurtz

When Champlin Architecture was tasked with the complete renovation and expansion of the Patton School of Education’s McCracken Hall, they reimagined the College with a dynamic space layout and architectural expression. The design goal was to accentuate the ceiling height and volume in key spaces. In terms of lighting design, this meant achieving visual symmetry with larger lighting of a simple, bright color, displaying diagonal design attribute. How did these considerations come into play with Lumetta’s telescopes?

Champlin’s Michelle VonderBrink, Interior Design Associate, explains: “A cluster of these pendants hanging at various heights provided the look of larger lighting without distracting from the design elements in the space around and below them. To coordinate and highlight some existing features of the space, such as original wood ceiling, brick wall, the bold, darker paint colors implemented throughout the design, we kept the color of the lights simple and bright. Diagonal design elements were incorporated into the plan to draw the eye through main spaces. Lumetta’s telescope carried these desirables and coordinated well with the overall design idea.”

To integrate the lighting for the ceiling and walls, custom sconces in the telescope design were commissioned. “It was great to be able to create something unique for our client and project and also very cool to see it become a standard product!”, Michelle enthuses.

Both the pendant and the sconces utilized D61 MT White shade from the Lumenate® Fiber collection. Each P600 23” telescope measured 6” OD x 23” H, with F2 powder chrome finish and featured LED lamping. The sconce dimensions are ADA compliant at 8” W x 4”D x 24”H.

King Lighting is the preferred agency for this project.
Photography by Batto Photo (Wes Battoclette)

Two contemporary buildings were recently added to the Provo Missionary Training Center (MTC) in Utah, in answer to the Church of Latter Day Saints’ missionary growth needs. The MTC has long been a busy educational facility, training local and global missionaries for the church.

Various Lumetta drums figure in key spaces of these buildings, specified by Glumac Portland, a major engineering and construction firm focused on sustainability. According to Jesse Smith, Lighting Studio Lead, students spend rigorous hours in the MTC environment vs. a traditional higher education facility. In conceptualizing the design, a lot of effort was made to provide less formal spaces for decompression. The goal is to bring a hospitality feel to the facility so that specific areas evoke a feeling of home and a sense of relaxation without sacrificing drama and elegance.

The Glumac design team applied a variety of architectural palette in each space. To help tie lighting in, different luminaire finishes were explored in each area. Jesse shares: “Lumetta delivered a key component desired for this project: the use of 100% LED in all the lighting fixtures. This and their ability to make fixtures in almost any size and any finish we sought, assuredly integrated the luminaires with the design vision”.

The buildings showcase drum shapes almost exclusively, with slight modifications to display narrow and tall and wide and short shapes. In the main meeting center, large, 6 ft. diameter drums not only match the scale of the rooms but also provide sufficient light for classroom use. Individual student teaching rooms use the smallest drums to give the students a different feel— that of being in a home.

Lightrix and Quantum Lighting worked with Lumetta on this project.

Architects & Engineers: ZGF Architects LLP, Glumac Portland, FFKR Architects & ECE- Electrical Consulting Engineers

Photography by Aaron Shaw, Endeavour Architectural Photography

Lumetta now adds the Hesburgh Library Scholars Lounge, University of Notre Dame, to the list of prestigious academic presence for its luminaires.

Adam Kibbe, Collaborative Lighting Principal: “The idea was of dense clusters of large fixtures, loosely metaphorical for gatherings of people and coming together of ideas. The resultant look is very compelling and reads well both from within the room and from the passage outside, which is a heavily-trafficked axis of movement into and through the library”.

The tailored simplicity of 34” Drum Pendants using Lumenate® in Slate with top and bottom diffusers, worked well in clustering. This style embodied the clean aesthetic the lighting specifier sought and were equipped with dimmable native-LED lumens package. Lumetta also provided considerable material options and a commensurate level of fit & finish.

Project architect: Shepley Bulfinch
Exposure Lighting is the preferred agency for this project.
Photography by Darris Lee Harris

Located on one of the most pedestrian-friendly and vibrant retail streets in Boston, the Boston Public Library provides the city with a world-class civic monument. Noted architectural firm William Rawn Associates was tasked with the design challenge of honoring its landmark Johnston Building and simultaneously redefining it into the library of the 21st century, while famed architectural lighting expert Lam Partners brought the lighting vision to fore.

William Rawn’s team researched the design intent of the original building and extracted a set of core principles that preserve the successful elements of the original design. Several of the interior walls and floors were removed after entry to create a welcoming, civic scaled room dubbed the Big Urban Room, where Lumetta’s desktop luminaires figure. This room serves as both front door and a public gathering space for the city.

Brought in through Lam Partners, the desktop luminaires were custom designed to reference the original lamps in Bates Hall of the McKim Wing and help tie the two library wings together, in what was once an empty space. On Lam’s project webpage, the original lighting was described as: “…harsh and monochromatic”. “The new study tables bordering the central atrium have modern table-mounted task lights with green fabric shades, recalling the classic green-glass reading lights in the adjoining original McKim, Mead and White building.” Lumetta equipped the lamps with retrofit LED bulbs complete with USB outlets in the table lamp bases. Today, these tables are often the first to be claimed by patrons who find them highly practical for work/study but also a great location to see and be seen.

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Credit: Exposure Lighting is the preferred agency for this project.
Photography courtesy of William Rawn Associates

When GMB Architecture + Engineering’s Paul Hector sought luminaries to provide the desired illumination for Caledonia High School’s new South Campus Building, he turned to Lumetta’s pendant drums along with a custom piece-a clover leaf luminaire that showcases precise metal work. The luminaires, installed in a variety of areas in the campus, provided the desired appealing soft presence, in both lit and unlit forms, all featuring Xicato modules as lighting source.

Here’s a short Q+A with Paul:

Q: Other than the soft presence, what were the prime project criteria?

Paul: The performance of the luminaire needed to be a primary light source for the space, along with durability and the ability to be cleaned.

Q: What was the design vision or inspiration?

Paul: The project’s design was influenced by the positioning of the building and to bring a connection to the site. A consistent feature was desired for the luminaire given daylight lighting conditions. The inspiration was to create viewpoints and outlooks with multiple focal points and depth; allowing the luminaires to be prominent yet also complement the adjacent luminaires and encompassing architecture.

Q: How did Lumetta help bring that vision to life?

Paul: Meeting the specific luminaire requirements. Especially providing the custom abilities to meet shape and finish.

Credit: West Michigan Lighting & Controls was the preferred agency for this project.

Visiting the children’s corner at the Cranston Public Library (Cranston, RI) these days is an experience of bright, cheery colors that stir the imagination; from the fun, cubical chairs and hexagonal tables, to the bold graphics on the walls and on the pendant luminaires, all thanks to the imagination of LLB Architects.

Lumetta is especially happy over the way the custom surface mounted drums turned out. The project called for ambient light in the reading area while also providing a whimsical decorative element. To achieve this, Lumetta produced five drums with circumference diameters of 5 feet, 6 feet, and 7 feet, boldly displaying the various themes and motifs related to popular children’s novels. Lighting sources for the drums used a combination of Xicato and Samsung LED.
Meaghan Kennedy, LLB Architects’ Director of Interior Design, says the theme for the space come from children’s portal literature and classic books and stories. The vivid designs provided by big black and white graphics on the diffusers artfully contrasted with lively images on the bottom lens, invite curiosity and give off a playful feel. Meaghan expounds on the contrast: “The exterior of the fixtures shows silhouettes of the ‘real world’ while the bottom lens shows the ‘technicolor’ images of the fantasy worlds. We wished the lights to be oversized as to create a canopy over the children while reading.”

Meaghan credits Lumetta’s customization expertise in its ability to bring their original vision to reality. “Their (Lumetta) team worked to show how images would look superimposed on the light fixtures and modified images as needed. They also hosted us at their headquarters to show full scale prints of the graphics to make sure the team was on board before production.”

Credit: Exposure Lighting is the preferred agency for this project.
Photography by Nat Rea

72″ Custom Ring Pendant constructed with D61 MT White Lumenate® diffuser and F2 Chrome finish imagined in a cafeteria type setting.

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Modified Shadow Pendants with diameter ranging from 3’ to 4’ in shown at Bay Path University in Longmeadow, MA.

Photo courtesy of Paul Schnaittacher.

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Custom 48” Drum surface mounts and Custom 42” Double Drum surface mounts featuring custom oval armature support at the Cherry Crest School in Bellevue, WA.

Photo courtesy of Benjamin Benschneider Photography.

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34″ Drum 2-Tier Pendant, 34″ Drum Pendant, 42″ Double Drum Pendant, 42″ Drum Pendant, 60″ Streamline Pendant shown at Salve Regina University in Newport, RI.

Photo courtesy of Ed Wonsek Photography.

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The renovation of the Student Union North at Binghampton University introduced over a dozen unique, themed food vendors in a modern marketplace environment. The various dining options are themed, with coordinating color, texture and lighting. Further complementing the new food service approach are seating enclaves lit by 60” Drum Pendants in MT Red.

Photo courtesy of Ed Wonsek Photography.

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