Lighting Upgrade Helps Protect a Priceless Work of Art

摘要

How do you properly illuminate a priceless work of art? Museums around the world have found answers to that very question. LOOP Lighting, a New York-based lighting design company, needed to do the same when it took on re-configuring the lighting system for the Nevelson Chapel at Saint Peter's Church in New York. The midtown Manhattan church that houses the chapel, Saint Peter's Church, was completed in 1977 as part of the development of Citigroup Center. The corporate/church/public facility is home to the only remaining comprehensive sculptural environment by modernist artist Louise Nevelson. Titled "Chapel of the Good Shepherd," the sculptural environment comprises nine white paint and gold leaf three-dimensional wood abstractions of thematic material from the Christian tradition, intended as a place of joy, peace and transformation.