New lamps for old
Townhill Farm is a centre of creative excellence. And I work here, too; though when I’m outside I have to go about with a badge that reads ‘Designer – Beware’, just in case anyone mistakes me for an artist.
I’m just back from re-lamping my partner’s studio. She works with organic fabrics, natural dyes and exotic dyeing techniques, so colour rendering is a common subject for discussion around the dinner table, and it’s usually my fault.
Her studio lighting is a simple array of single-lamp fluorescent battens, as originally designed by the creative electrician employed by our farming landlord. But that’s OK – how else would you light an artist’s studio other than to get maximum light spread with minimal shadowing? Yummy.
But while they may be good old workhorse battens, they’re probably the best equipped battens in Wessex, because they’re now fitted with 90 series cool daylight lamps. It’s not that the old 840 lamps were poor; we just didn’t think they were quite good enough.
And this afternoon I’ll be nipping off to B&Q to pick up one of their multi-head GU10 spotlight units. This is for the studio lobby, which is beyond the pale with a crappy 2-D bulkhead. So there’s my job for tomorrow – to fit one of the cheapest spotlight units in the west. And the lamps? Well, the unit will be fitted with the very latest in 5W LED lamps – what else did you expect?
So this is how we go. Zero development in light fitting development (yes, I know the GU10 holder ain’t old enough to vote, but let’s go with the flow, shall we) but what fantastic developments in light source technology. Thus was it ever so.
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