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With or Without Light?
Secret Lighting - room transformations … adding design elements to our design services. In September, we will open a new design studio near Shrewsbury …. ……..why not plan a visit and transform that key room before Autumn approaches. The new range of Duropolymer...
Secrets in Design
Does the increase in AI & 3D renderings mean you “ Don’t need a lighting designer” ? All you do is create a moodboard & concept for a design from thousands of amazing choices. So now our work has become less “lighting design” but more “how to construct” and be...
Sky Light/ Lantern Lighting
“Halo” all the way around or just the corners? Comfortable light washing walls and table below. At Secret Lighting we call this "low energy by design". Why do more than you need and end up with over bright sky light, glare and reflections, save money and energy....
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Problems we Solve in One Day
How do you light a Naturist camp in Montenegro with No electricity and avoid being bitten by bugs? Not a joke but some of the projects we do really see (or actually want to unsee!) Star Trek apartments with automated sliding doors (& lights), Water...
If you want great lighting but don’t want to pay for it – this will be perfect for you ….
This Easter we deleted and recycled over 90 catalogues from our lighting library, these were manufacturers of lighting from all over the World. There is however, One we want to share with you. “Klus” has been our Secret weapon, actually even most lighting designers...
Indirect Wall Lighting
For those people that don’t like visible lines of light and like a glare free subtle experience, we introduce Plakin Duo. In a range of colours or could be painted in, this unique wall mounted profile can be any length and shape/direction complete with options for end...
Exterior Facade Lighting
New profile for exterior facades A simple alternative to multimedia LED facades The Fasko system is a very reasonable, ingenious alternative to the available digital technologies that enable the construction of multimedia facades. Fasko can provide visual...
Clever, healthy, successful buildings use Secret Lighting
Most measures of success have at their source ”people”, putting people at the core of our design purpose …. in short it follows that light reveals the space and so we argue for light to be designed with the architecture, and not just a service added to the end....
Zero Waste
Secret Lighting by bringing design and manufacture back to the UK in small “made to measure” manufacture using aluminium profiles with only mechanical connections throughout means no welding and each part infantilely maintainable for the lifetime of the interior....
The Art of a Profile
We are a specialist team of designers who understand how to uselighting profiles to create both hidden and sculptured light. The old ways of selecting your lighting only from a publishedcatalogue, the seasonal range designed chosen by themanufacturer for vou is over....
“Fluid” – Design your Space
"Fluid" wall and ceiling systems can redefinethe very space itself, curving walls, ceilingsand furniture ready for the arrival of light. Patented, unique flexible tracks easily bringnew form and shape. Good design understands how the humaneye sees and perceives the...
Construction Week
We are exhibiting for the first time at construction week at the NEC Birmingham 4-6 October. Come and say hello or email for free tickets … we are on stand B203 in the Build section.
Build it Live – Bicester 11-12 June
We are exhibiting for the first time at Bicester this coming weekend 11-12 June. We will be on stand C5 so it would be great if you could come and say hello. Please see the link for free tickets to the event. FREE ticket...
We are in the Blind Business
Control of daylight is an important part of a lighting design, planning for the slow transition from daylight to evening and (electric) lighting sets the first scene of a secret lighting design. Part of hiding and integrating the lighting can be to use the space...
We are also designing “custom” lighting in Saudi Arabia…
Secret Lighting are now “official distributor” for Klus, whose profiles and technical lighting skills allow us to design LEDs in unique styles. Klus recently aided Artist Karolina Halatek’s “Beacon” for the Noor Riyadh Festival. The installation...
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