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Illuminated ceilings through history
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Luminous ceilings provide spacious room impressions and can provide different types of lighting. Besides this, they are, however, also metaphors of the natural sky and a mirror of an aesthetic and architectural debate.
This look at ceilings through the ages reveals that the image of heaven, which reached a theological culmination in the luminous Renaissance stucco techniques, turned into large-scale light emanating surfaces.
Even if the luminance of contemporary LED screens has increased intensely and thereby creates a point of attraction, designers still look to establish a pictorial language for an impressive appearance.
This movie is a shortened version of the paper that was presented by Thomas Schielke at the Professional Lighting Design Conference in Berlin in 2009.
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