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Enhance Interiors with the Right Color Temperatures and CRI

Personalized Lighting® is about having choices with your lighting. It’s more than the on, off, dim options of the past. Having a more prescribed experience with color temperatures and CRI options will level up the everyday. The color temperature of light can quickly shift the appearance of a room.

January 20, 2025

Caviar Kaspia at The Mark

Discover how L'Observatoire International used LittleOnes Micro 1 inch adjustable downlights to create a sophisticated and intimate ambiance at Caviar Kaspia, the iconic new Parisian-inspired restaurant and bar in Manhattan. Learn about the challenges and solutions involved in achieving the desired lighting effect.

January 10, 2025

David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center

A New York City icon is refreshed for a brilliant future. Putting on the performance with USAI Lighting's BeveLED Minis.

October 24, 2023

Lighting Art

USAI Lighting shines a light on the importance of luminaire positioning, style, and color to set the mood in commercial and residential spaces.

July 18, 2023

How Lighting Helps Solve The Sleep Crisis

While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has officially declared sleep deprivation as a national health crisis, we know that the right light at the right time can help you get a great night’s rest, resulting in increased healing, improved moods, sharpened focus, and much more.

January 27, 2020

Reimagining Frank Gehry's Cafeteria

It’s a new era in midtown New York City, as the “Devil Wears Prada” ethos gives way to wellness, community and sustainability.  Owned by The Durst Organization, One Five One (151 West 42nd Street) was known as the home of the Conde Nast publishing empire and its ultra, exclusive Frank Gehry designed cafeteria – accessible only to Conde Nast and their treasured guests.

January 15, 2020

Lighting Research Center Video Series

In this series of 9 videos, Professor of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and Directory of the Lighting Research Center (LRC) Dr. Mariana Figueiro, gives a brief overview of human circadian rhythms - explaining their importance and the need for staying entrained with lighting.

October 15, 2019

Iowa School Of Music Case Study

Facing the aftermath of severe floods in June 2008, a largely devastated campus, and $743 million in FEMA aid, the University of Iowa embarked on a mission to rebuild. As part of this reconstruction effort, the university hired Seattle-based LMN Architects and local firm Neumann Monson Architects to relocate and rebuild a new $189 million, state-of-the-art, Voxman Music Building in downtown Iowa City.

January 25, 2019