Light Directed at Materials: Grazing Angle

An oriental luxury space where materials are highlighted by grazing light. The lights are positioned close to the wall, and the light almost parallels the surface, thus magnifying the material's irregularities: subtle granular shadows appear on the honed surface of stone, the open pores of wood become clear, and the tiny undulations of a lacquer surface become visible. The light spot gradually fades from top to bottom, with the lower half of the wall submerged in darkness. Avoid: letting light shine directly and flatly on the wall to eliminate texture, using uniform wall-washing illumination, placing light sources far from the wall, using highly diffused soft light to flatten the surface.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個以掠射光顯出材質的東方奢華空間。燈的位置貼近牆面,光幾乎平行地掃過表面,因此材料的凹凸被放大:石材的珩磨面出現細微的顆粒陰影、木材的open pore木孔變得清楚、大漆表面的微小起伏顯現出來。光斑從上方向下逐漸變淡,牆的下半部沉在暗處。避免:讓光正面平射到牆面消除質感、使用均勻的洗牆照明、把光源放在遠離牆面的位置、使用高擴散的柔光讓表面變平。