Performance Decorative Lighting Application Guide

High Aesthetics, High Performance with Decorative Pendants and Trims

Performance Decorative Lighting masterfully blends striking aesthetics with advanced technical capabilities, empowering designers to create spaces that are both visually captivating and highly functional. This harmonious integration ensures that style never comes at the expense of performance, allowing every environment to shine with both beauty and purpose.

 

Key Highlights & Benefits

Design Flexibility & Sustainability

Lighting products that feature a modular systems offer effortless customization, allowing you to refresh the ambiance of any space by simply replacing decorative components.

 

These interchangeable elements enable cost-effective updates, ensuring the core lighting infrastructure remains intact — saving both time and money.

Enhanced Performance

Decorative elements like trims and shades improve lighting performance by increasing shielding and diffusion, reducing glare and enhancing visual comfort.

Solving for Style & Space Pendant Lighting

 

Pendants are versatile, seamlessly fitting into various lighting designs and layouts to provide focused, low glare illumination. An ideal solution for spaces where recessed fixtures can’t fit including shallow plenums and open ceilings, pendants provide the essential downlight layer, while also offering an optional layer of indirect light (uplight), adding depth and ambiance to a space.

 

DMF has introduced highly configurable Decorative Pendants with Shades with a diverse array of silhouette options to suit any design preference. The newest additions to the company’s 3-inch aperture X Series and 4-inch aperture M Series cylinder collections, the 15 decorative performance pendants are offered in three complimentary shade designs (Wide, Medium and Narrow) and in multiple lengths, giving designers distinctive solutions for architecturally demanding indoor and outdoor spaces.

 

Decorative Pendants Performance Benefits

 

The pendant’s decorative shades improve comfort by effectively extending the edge of the fixture, which increases the shielding angle, providing a higher level of visual comfort. By shielding the viewer from the direct light source, shades mitigate unwanted glare, resulting in a more comfortable and better-quality lighting experience.

 

Shielding Angle Study

 

The study of the 3-inch Decorative Pendant with Shades reveals the remarkable efficacy of cutoff angles in providing substantial shading, eliminating light spill and glare. Utilizing a tight-beam Narrow Spot (NS) optic, the overall lumen output and beam remain highly effective. Additionally, there is a slight concentrating effect, which increases the center beam candlepower.

Note: Photometric data provided is for 1000 lumens, 3000K module equipped with a NS Optic and a white finish. The accompanying photographs depict cylinders in a black finish, positioned approximately 9 to 12 inches from the rear wall, to effectively illustrate the beam and cutoff angle.

 

Decorative Pendants Photometric Performance

 

The adjacent tables demonstrate how cylinder shades

influence both total lumen output and beam angle across

various shade profiles and optic combinations.

It is important to recognize that increasing the shielding angle may diminish overall light output—this effect is especially pronounced with the Narrow Shade when paired with broader beam spreads.

 

Choice of Optic

For Narrow shades, the Narrow Spot (NS) and Spot (SP) optics are the most effective, offering minimal light loss.

When utilizing the Medium or Wide Shade profiles, there is greater flexibility to employ a wider optic if needed.

Note: Photometric data provided is for 1000 lumens, 3000K module in a white finish. Black finishes further reduce output by approximately 1%. Items shown in ORANGE denote shade-optic combinations with diminishing returns in terms of beam spread, which are not recommended combinations.

 

Decorative Pendant Applications

 

DMF’s Decorative Pendants with Shades deliver focused, low glare downlighting, available in a diverse array of silhouette options to complement any design aesthetic.

 

Expertly merging high-performance illumination with exceptional shielding, these pendants are ideally suited for:

 

Task Lighting: Perfect for illuminating countertops, reception desks and workstations.

 

Hospitality Spaces: Elevating the ambiance of hotels, bars and dining areas by creating an intimate and inviting atmosphere.

 

Open Offices: Offering stylish, controlled illumination that ensures a low-glare, productive work environment.

Decorative Downlight Trims

 

DMF’s M and X Series decorative trims introduce an elevated sense of style and visual intrigue to any space. Crafted from optical-quality acrylic and available in finishes ranging from frosted to clear, these trims are thoughtfully designed to interact with light in captivating ways. Their versatility makes them especially well-suited for low ceilings, compact areas, and environments that benefit from wide, soft illumination.

 

Below-Ceiling Intrigue: Each trim features an acrylic element that sits below the ceiling plane, capturing light and adding depth.

 

Custom Translucency:

Choose from varying levels of translucency —from fully frosted to clear to control the light effect.

 

Uninterrupted Beam:

The X Series Round Decorative Trims are fully open to the optic, allowing the beam of light to travel completely uninterrupted while still adding a decorative accent.

 

Decorative Trim Applications

 

Low Ceilings: 

The high diffusion and somewhat decreased center beam candle power make these trims great for low ceiling applications where wide beam spreads are needed to adequately cover a space.  

 

Tight Spaces:

These decorative trims also cast a higher percentage of light up walls, making tighter spaces such as powder rooms and corridors feel brighter and more expansive, especially when there isn’t space for dedicated wall washing or accent lighting.

 

Decorative Focal Points:

Reception desks, display areas, and shelving units can be transformed by the distinctive aesthetic of decorative trims, elevating ordinary spaces into striking visual features.  

 

Spas, Beauty Salons & Gyms

In settings where patrons may recline and gaze upward, decorative trims offer significant benefits. The lower center power, combined with higher diffusion and beam spread, can

significantly reduce disability glare from looking towards light sources.

 

For more information including detailed information on the Decorative Trims photometry, please reference our Performance Decorative Lighting Application Guide.

 

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