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THE NAME SETS THE SCENE AT THE LUMIERE HAIR SALON IN PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, where architecture firm Hogan/Macaulay was challenged to create a lighting scheme that would communicate the identity of this new business in Downcity, a district that is rapidly transforming from industrial to hip. Brought onto the job by Providence-based interior design team Studio 360, lighting principal Bob Hogan states, "The design relationship with Studio 360 was very smooth, because of the fact that light had been considered as an integral element from the beginning." The seamless marriage of structure and illumination on this project could also be attributed to Hogan/Macaulay's formative years as an architecture firm: founded in 1 996, the three-person team started specializing in light in 1998.
Viewed from the street, this 1 7-foot-high space on a corner lot emits a brilliant, amber glow that boldly sets it apart from the industrial gray of the surrounding buildings. The focal point of the design is a hanging veil of thin copper rods that span the full length...