NEW LIGHTING

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20978, 5 October 1933, Page 5

NEW LIGHTING

DIRECT AND INDIRECT Indirect lighting has captured the public fancy, but it cannot be said to be cheap. Concealed lighting may be arranged by means of reflectors to give a fair share of the original light, but as a rule it is so arranged that much more of it can be turned on at a time without being uncomfortable, and as a result much more usually is turned on, says an English paper. Direct lighting has hitherto been uncomfortable. To look straight at any lamp produces a dazzling effect, with the result that lamps are crudely shaded and also often do not give all the light they might. The great advantage of the direct electric light can be seen when it can be distributed over the room but is only used where it is needed, for sewing, reading, and so forth. . . A new tubular light which is often used in conjunction with glass fittings has the quality that when it is looked at directly it produces no aftereffects of dazzle. Tubular lighting. is so entirely connected with advertising that its use privately has not been thoroughly exploited. Nevertheless, there is no, actual shame a having a direct light as long as it is comfortable for the eyes. The tubular lighting in its new guise is entirely comfortable and it is possible to look at it and then away from it without a lightspots dancing before the eyes. There seems no reason why it should not be adapted for small lamps and indeed for private interior lighting of any kind, and also no reason why the many sub-tei-fuges with which direct lighting is dissimulated should not be done away with in the interests of lighting on its merits.