Product Description

When it comes to beautifying homes with light, Glenn Johnson is universally recognized as one of the absolute masters of his art. At different points in his high-profile career, he has created designs that bring subtle warmth to Stephen Spielberg's art collection ... defined a relaxed aura for David Geffen's music sanctuary ... and unobtrusively illuminated the sumptuous details of mega-mansions for the likes of Iris and B. Gerald Cantor and Aaron Spelling. In The Art of Illumination: Residential Lighting Design, Glenn Johnson teaches the art and science of lighting design that he has practiced for more than 20 years. Look inside this long-overdue resource, and there are breathtaking examples from Johnson's own portfolio, along with previously unavailable details on how to apply light to aesthetically enhance each area of a home. Whether you're an architect, interior designer, contractor, or homeowner, you'll find a rich storehouse of ideas in the book's eye-opening full-color photographs, renderings, and CAD details of lighting applications.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #124749 in Books
• Published on: 1998-10-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 203 pages

Amazon.com Review
Glenn Johnson, who for more than 20 years has illuminated some of the world's most exclusive homes, galleries, clubs, and museums, now reveals his lighting philosophy and techniques in a step-by-step book that shows the reader how to achieve perfect illumination in every room of the home. In what is almost a textbook for lighting designers, Johnson guides the reader through the basics of lamps and lighting technology to a technical and aesthetic comprehension of how to dramatically transform a room or an entire building with carefully-planned illumination. --Mark A. Hetts

Review
"Johnson generously shares the expertise he's gained in 22 years as a lightning designer...now based in Utah, he jets around the country planning lighting for high-end clients with names like Spielberg, Getty and Newton-John."

From the Back Cover
"It was a great collaboration working with Glenn Johnson. He fulfilled all the design objectives ... and achieved a balanced play of light between people and the rooms." --Iris Cantor, homeowner. "Glenn is truly a professional in the field of lighting design." --David Geffen, Geffen Records and Dreamworks SKG. "Working with Glenn has been an educational delight." --Bebe Winkler, Bebe Winkler Interior Design, Inc. A LOVE AFFAIR WITH LIGHT. When it comes to beautifying homes with light, Glenn Johnson is universally recognized as one of the absolute masters of his art. At different points in his high-profile career, he has created designs that bring subtle warmth to Stephen Spielberg's art collection...defined a relaxed aura for David Geffen's music sanctuary...and unobtrusively illuminated the sumptuous details of mega-mansions for the likes of Iris and B. Gerald Cantor and Aaron Spelling. In The Art of Illumination: Residential Lighting Design, Glenn Johnson teaches the art and science of lighting design that he has practiced for more than 20 years. Look inside this long-overdue resource, and there are breathtaking examples from Johnson's own portfolio, along with previously unavailable details on how to apply light to aesthetically enhance each area of a home. Whether you're an architect, interior designer, contractor, or homeowner, you'll find a rich storehouse of ideas in the book's eye-opening full-color photographs, renderings, and CAD details of lighting applications.

Customer Reviews

Art of Ilummination: Residential Lighting Design
This book IS NOT for the average Homeowner or person building a new home. This book is more geared, in my opinion, to a lighting designer. I purchased the book in order to find out as much as I could about residential lighting tips for my new home and was disappointed to find that it wasn't very helpful in this regard.

A cogent, coherent way of thinking about illumination
Those looking for "connect the dots" instructions for various lighting projects will probably be happier looking for more detail-oriented books, perhaps books in the Sunset or Black and Decker series.

That said, I rate this above the other dozen or so books I have recently acquired on this topic in preparation for working on a new house. The reason is simple: this is the book that suggests ways of thinking about lighting and demonstrates the consequences of planning -- or not planning -- in various ways. To think usefully, not to mention creatively, about lighting, I felt I needed a way to think about the overall impact. While other books provide lots of specific information about particular situations, this is the one that offers more of a systemic outlook.

But it is not lacking in specifics. It offers enough detail about every technical aspect of lighting that I finally feel able to listen more intelligently to lighting specialists and electricians. The information seems up-to-date, at least in terms of what's available in the market where we live, and it is the single book on the topic that I would not part with as we begin the day-to-day slogging through making another house into our home.

Don't buy this book if what you really want is a specific recipe to cook up half a dozen recessed lights and some task lighting in your kitchen. You'll be disappointed. But if you're willing to tease apart the vagaries of your particular space and suss out the special uses of your own kitchen, this book will reward you by empowering you to develop and evaluate lighting solutions for yourself.

More of a Sales Brochure
Though creative, this book seems to be nothing more than a sales brochure for Mr. Johnson's firm. There is not enough substance in the book to allow anyone other than Mr. Johnson or his associates to create the design schemes shown in the book. Mr. Johnson's ADAPTIVE design is creative, but is given only in a generalized sense. There is no real design criteria (lumens/ft2, wattage for varying spaces, etc.)to help the reader know if all ADAPTIVE design elements are actually achieved if someone other than Mr. Johnson were to design the lighting scheme. Mr. Johnson's work is very beautiful and artistic. I only wish the book had more substance.