Choosing high-tech chandeliers

Technological progress has entered all spheres of life of a modern person, is reflected in the manufacturing sector and in everyday things, in the home environment. Designers create high-tech interior items. The combination of ultra-functional pieces of furniture, lamps, textured unusual finishes in one composition is characteristic of the high-tech style. Let's take a closer look at the nuances of the design of chandeliers for a high-tech interior, and find out what to be guided by when choosing such a chandelier.

High-tech interiors are combined with utilitarian objects, framed in an unusual geometric shape or with streamlined space lines. The decor is full of various transforming mechanisms, much is controlled by remote controls, including a chandelier.

In general, the high-tech design is intended to make a somewhat futuristic impression. There is almost no artificial decor, jewelry, ostentatious luxury, but the elements of this design are harmonious in their functionality, where there is nothing superfluous, and every detail corresponds to its function, which evokes a feeling of cosmic mystery.

A transforming table, a folding bed, an armchair made of transparent plastic, the latest generation of technical equipment, an unpainted concrete wall, brickwork, the absence of textile draperies - and against all this background, unusual lamps of amazing bizarre shapes. I want to consider them, the designs are non-trivial and unusual.

High-tech chandeliers can be very conditionally called room lamps, for the most part they are a whole work of art. This small architectural form in the interior illuminates only that part of the room that requires light, is often controlled with a remote control, and can change the intensity of lighting depending on needs.

Usually there are several separate light sources combined by one structure. Each spotlight can be turned in its direction, distant or close due to design features.

In the design of high-tech items, there is a limitation in the use of materials and colors. As a rule, it is gray, white, metallic, black. They are designed to solve the design problem through form, not decoration. This can be considered a disadvantage, but with a competent style solution, these colors can create an impressive composition.

In modern high-tech interiors with no partitions between zones, the chandeliers are not tied to the center of the ceiling. Large areas where kitchen, living room, bedroom, hallway areas are combined in one room is difficult to illuminate with one chandelier.

It is much more practical to place the main source of lighting in the living and dining area, and in others - separate lamps according to the functionality of the zone. For zoning, it is convenient to use separate lamps with a directional spotlight on the rod.

Another option was to use LED ceiling lights and a pendant design chandelier in the center of the room. In this case, the luminaires are divided into zones in the form of separate suspended structures or several point LEDs in a metal frame above a certain zone.

High-tech lighting fixtures have simple geometric shapes, or, on the contrary, are emphasized fantastic, however, both are equipped with metal elements with a chrome sheen. A high-tech chandelier is a set of simple metal shades or tubes with directional light arranged in several rows. In some zone there may be one such tube, and in another - several dozen.

Elite designer chandeliers combine inconceivable structural elements both in height and location, can take up to several meters in space, becoming the main element of the architecture of the room.

The rigid constructivism of the design of these lamps presupposes the use of special materials.

• Preference is given to metal... The metal can be shiny chrome or black, matte gray or painted in some color.

• Plastic - one of the main materials for shades of unusual curved shapes. Plastic is used both transparent and matte.
• Glass organically complements metal structures, the glitter of glass and chrome gives an additional fantastic glow. The design features of multi-row chandeliers make it possible to give artistic expressiveness even to electric cords, on which shades of various shapes are attached.

To equip chandeliers in this style, LEDs are most often used, since one chandelier may require up to several dozen bulbs. For original high-tech compositions, COB diodes are used, which are attached to the board and provide a uniform luminous flux. For large chandeliers, powerful and heavy-duty diodes are suitable, for ordinary apartment chandeliers - SMD illuminators, inexpensive lamps with variable light intensity.

These plastic materials allow you to embody the most fancy shapes in the design of high-tech chandeliers. It can be a variety of concentric circles, intricately intertwined with each other, and whole fountains of small LED lamps.

For brutal interiors, strict geometric shapes composed of several rectangles are suitable. Metal identical spotlights of directional light look organically against the background of a concrete wall.

The chandelier can be one or more luminous columns made of many LEDs, or it can be shaped like a ball floating in the middle of the space. Unusual compositions of broken metal rods with an LED at the end are popular. These compositions can have both horizontal and vertical directionality.

Plafonds gravitate towards both the original wavy shape and the shape of a ball, square, cone or tetrahedron, as well as the shape of a honeycomb.

When choosing a chandelier, you need to focus on the size and purpose of the room. High-tech chandeliers for the bedroom can be minimalistic, and in the hall they can take the place of a light installation. In the kitchen, it is better to have several lighting fixtures to illuminate the workspace and dining area; in the office, for good illumination, powerful lamps are needed.

In all types of rooms, chandeliers should be stylish and functional.

The living room is a great place for a stylish high-tech chandelier. If the interior of the living room is decorated in suitable light gray colors, a chandelier in the form of a composition of LEDs on chrome pendants will look very good here.

With low ceilings, it is better to give preference to a horizontal composition; for high ceilings, you can install a composition of structures descending downward.The LEDs give a bluish tint that adds alienation to the interior.

An interesting option would be a chandelier made of luminous balls, cubes, rectangles, hexagons of the same or different sizes, attached at different heights. Several intricately curved oval or circle, suspended on metal cables, will be an original accent of a high-tech interior.

Metal elements in the form of spirals or shavings, harmoniously intertwined with each other and located on a platform made of the same metal, will add shine and brightness from the shine of chrome surfaces.

The bedroom will require a different approach when choosing a chandelier. This is an intimate area that requires subdued lighting for relaxation. Most appropriate here would be a chandelier with several shades of frosted tinted glass with ordinary lamps.

The plafonds can be located on a horizontal rod on the chandelier, one or two of the same plafonds are fixed on a vertical rod in the bedside area for additional lighting.

The cabinet requires rigor and conciseness, the chandeliers should be equipped with cone-shaped shades with a directional light located along the desktop. Red, green or yellow colors are allowed here. Any lamp will do, but it should be comfortable for vision.

In the kitchen, you will have to combine different types of lighting. Above the dining table, you can place the main chandelier, along the cutting table - single lamps of the same model.

It is possible to equip the entire perimeter of the kitchen at the level of the ceiling and at the level of kitchen cabinets with two strips of LED strip lighting. To make it look like a space object, a third line is added slightly above the baseboard of the floor.

In small rooms, spots look good. In the children's room, they can be multi-colored.

When choosing a chandelier, you need to remember that stretch ceilings cannot be heated, therefore, halogen lamps must be abandoned. LEDs do not heat up and cannot damage the coating.

Mirrored ceilings enhance the effect of a high-tech chandelier. You need to choose structures without a massive platform, preferably on thin cables. Lots of glowing lights, multiplied by the reflection of the ceiling, will create the effect of a starry sky.

In rooms furnished with dark furniture, you need to install chandeliers with bright lighting, it can be several shades with powerful lamps or a bunch of small LEDs.

In a plain interior or against a background of brickwork, a high-tech chandelier can have bright red shades or designs painted in yellow and other natural colors.

A large designer chandelier will become the main focus of the room. If you do not need to draw attention to the lighting, then it is better to choose a smaller chandelier with neutral white or gray matte shades.

Chandelier shades directed upward will give additional illumination, softer and more diffused light is obtained when the shades are directed downward. In any case, a room decorated with a lamp in a futuristic style will look outside the box.

In addition to the unusual design, high-tech chandeliers have a lot of advantages. They have a variable form, are varied in the type of placement in the space of the room - from the horizontal arrangement of the composition almost in the plane of the ceiling to "soaring" in the center of the space.

High functionality is provided by the possibility of multidirectional shades, by adjusting the intensity of illumination using the remote control. These chandeliers are suitable for small rooms and large spaces to create a modern look.

LED strips on a rigid geometric frame set the dynamism of the interior. Crystal elements on the chrome metal structure sparkle when the lights are on and are the focal point in the monochrome interior.

Really unusual shapes are created from thin metal rods. An almost transparent element gives an atmosphere to the whole room.

Sometimes the imagination of designers takes on the most unusual forms. This idea is clearly taken from another planet.

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