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New York lighting designer Brett Anderson of Focus Lighting shared his “secret recipe” for restaurant lighting design with an inquisitive audience at Lightfair Tuesday as he shared the results of some independent research his team conducted to try to identify and quantify the factors that make a dining experience enjoyable and memorable.
Anderson brings considerable experience to bear on restaurant lighting design, having works such as Atmosphere Restaurant on the 122nd floor of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai and Tavern on the Green in New York City to his credit.
He broke the dining experience down into three experiences – the first impression, the dining table and the trip to the restroom – and set up a study that covered 50 of the highest rated restaurants on popular review sites Zagat, TripAdvisor...