Lighting Styles

Rating:
Summary: A feast for the eyes
Review: I really liked this book. It is full of rich full color photographs of a wide variety of lighting treatments for every room in the house and garden. The lighting styles are quite contemporary, with all the latest halogen spots, low voltage systems and lots and lots of brushed steel. Consequently the styles shown may not serve every house, and because they are so contemporary, they are not especially "timeless" designs. Nonetheless, there are lots of great ideas for lighting and highlighting the home.

Rating:
Summary: Rather a lamp catalog than a Lighting Design book
Review: In a rather simplistic manner, Sian Rees' Lighting Styles focuses on different ways of lighting house areas, but falls short on the analysis of the spacial effects of light. Packed with high quality pictures, the book's main focus is on lamps and lighting fixtures rather than the lighting and spatial quality these may provide. Well diagramed and easy to read, Lighting Styles is more of an excellent lamp catalog than a lighting design book.

Rating:
Summary: Rather a lamp catalog than a Lighting Design book
Review: In a rather simplistic manner, Sian Rees? Lighting Styles focuses on different ways of lighting house areas, but falls short on the analysis of the spacial effects of light. Packed with high quality pictures, the book?s main focus is on lamps and lighting fixtures rather than the lighting and spatial quality these may provide. Well diagramed and easy to read, Lighting Styles is more of an excellent lamp catalog than a lighting design book.