21st Century Lighting Design offers a comprehensive and insightful overview of a rapidly evolving industry. Well researched and packed with excellent images, it's an ideal resource for anyone interested in the development of contemporary lighting. * Owen Pritchard, Deputy Editor, Icon Magazine, UK * Lifestyles are changing, fast. More of us live in cities. Fewer of us work 9 to 5. Townscapes are alive, 24 hours a day. The home is a refuge, a place to rest, to think. Who are the designers and what are the products that illuminate this world? Let 21st Century Lighting Design be your trustworthy, thoughtful guide. * Rory Olcayto, deputy editor, the Architects Journal, UK * Lighting perhaps more than anything else in home design has altered radically as the 21st century moves through its second decade. This book clearly explains and beautifully illustrates how, with a lush portfolio of effects and fittings. * Barbara Chandler, design writer for Homes & Property, London Evening Standard, UK and chair of judges for the annual Homes & Gardens Designer Awards * A great addition to a designers book collection. -- Debra Hall * www.tssreviews.com/ * Most of the volume focuses on mapping the trends over the last decade by featuring 100-plus designs from a variety of domestic, commercial, and architectural projects. For the most part, these are one-of-a-kind solutions to contemporary situationsSumming Up: Recommended. General readers and practitioners. -- R. P. Meden, Marymount University * CHOICE *
