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Randolph, VT – November 03, 2021 – Prolume announced five new products at LightFair that incorporate PERFEKTLight Biodynamic Technology. Prolume now offers ready to spec and ready to customize products: a 2” Linear Suspended luminaire, a 2’x2’ troffer, a 6” down light, a 4ft T8 tube replacement, and a floor lamp for supplemental lighting. All […]
Randolph, VT – October 20, 2021 – Visit Prolume’s booth (#1662) at LightFair International October 27-29, 2021 to experience BIOdynamic lighting and the measurement of those circadian effects by Blue Iris Labs’ Speck, the first commercially available, low-cost, battery-powered, cloud-connected spectrometer. Lighting which entrains circadian rhythms must take into account light delivered to the eye. […]
Randolph, VT – September 14, 2021 – The Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine held a 9/11 memorial service and ceremonial first lighting on Friday, September 10th in lower Manhattan. The event celebrated the reconstruction of the only house of worship destroyed 20-years ago. Prolume provided lighting for the project’s marquee features. Mathew […]
Vermont Flannel selects professional lighting company, Prolume, to transform the shopping experience inside its flagship Woodstock, VT retail store.
Store owners, Mark and Linda Baker, understand lighting’s ability to render the color of merchandise and enhance a customer’s shopping experience. They viewed a lighting retrofit as an opportunity to improve their customers’ experience and drastically influence purchasing decisions.
The vibrant colors and brushed cotton of Vermont Flannel demands that the lighting accurately represent the color and texture of materials and fabrics in the store. “Prolume has shined a light on our beautiful woven flannels that lets customers see the real thing. I would highly recommend Prolume and their creative team to enhance any business,” said owner, Mark Baker. “Our customers now shop in our store for longer periods of time since the new lighting was installed,” co-owner, Linda, elaborated.
Prolume collaborated with Mark and Linda to modernize the lighting while enhancing the store’s rustic motif. Jeff Green, Director of Prolume Engineering stated, “The historic tin ceiling and canvas portraits along the perimeter of the store presented an opportunity to uplight. Our Duo-Series linear LED fixture, equipped with the latest LED technology and utilizing asymmetric 20° bending optical lenses, precisely highlighted the architecture. The new lighting simultaneously gives the impression of more depth and projects extra footcandles onto the garments. Linear LED downlight fixtures installed directly over the clothing racks were able to be hidden behind custom shields. This eliminated glare and blended the fixtures into the existing structure.”
All the lighting installed used 97 CRI Nichia Optisolis LEDs. “Merchandise lit with a nearly perfect CRI source, such as the Nichia Optisolis, is typically perceived as being brighter and more vibrant, providing subtle cues, that retailers report is paramount to obtaining a sale,” said, Kendra Paschall, Prolume Senior Director of Business Development.
To view the case study with before and after photographs visit our website here.
March 17-18, 2020
New York Hilton Midtown
Booth TBD
Prolume will be showing Perfect Light™ at LEDucation 2020 in New York City.
Organized by the Designers Lighting Forum of New York, LEDucation is the ultimate marketplace for solid-state lighting innovations, giving industry professionals a chance to experience new technologies as well as continue their education through a wide range of accredited seminars.
Feel free to contact Mathew Michell (mmichell@prolumeled.com) or Kasia Gordon (kgordon@prolumeled.com) in advance to schedule a booth appointment to meet and discuss your specific needs.
RANDOLPH, VT. – January 15, 2020 – Prolume, professional lighting, debuts PERFEKTLIGHTTM with organic food retailer and restaurant Chef’s Market. PERFEKTLIGHT precisely matches indoor lighting to sunlight. The technology uses advanced color correction with “set it and forget it” electronics to create healthy indoor environments.
Built in 1881, the Randolph historic train station has long been the center of the town and now serves as home to Chef’s Market. As Chef’s Market has grown using exclusively dairy, produce, and meats from Vermont’s local suppliers, it has become the hub of the town.
“We continuously seek to enhance our customers’ experience in our store and restaurant,” said owners, Tammy and Scott Aronson. “Our customers love the new lighting, and enthusiasm has been obvious since the retrofit. Prolume improved our display lighting. Color tuning revolutionized our ambient lighting. We moved into the historic Randolph train station site in 2017. We expected our LED lighting would be efficient, but the color temperature of the light was always a compromise. It had to be warm for our restaurant customers, but deliver enough light for retail shoppers and for our employees’ productivity. The previous solution was out of sync with the daylight from the buildings many windows. The retrofit increased light levels by over 40% and dropped lighting power consumption by 28%. The color quality of merchandise has been dramatically enhanced. That single factor drives product sales.” Scott elaborated.
Jeff Green, Prolume’s Director of Engineering and an IES museum lighting committee member, adds “we are thrilled to be working with Chef’s Market. The owner’s dedication to the health of their customers’ and their employees make this venue an ideal showcase for PERFEKTLIGHT. This technology minimizes circadian rhythm disruption that occurs with ordinary indoor lighting. PERFEKTLIGHT is a synthesis of inventions that solves the problem of exact color tuning coincident with outdoor light.”
“Prolume has incorporated PERFEKTLIGHT into custom and retrofit products allowing customers, agents, and lighting designers to specify PERFEKTLIGHT. Our electronics can be paired with simple or advanced controls such as dimming in conjunction with daylight harvesting” said Zach Treamer, Director of Product Marketing. “In March, PERFEKTLIGHT will be offered in “ready-to-spec” Prolume fixtures.
These new technologies will be showcased at LEDucation in NYC on March 17th and 18th and at LFI in Las Vegas on May 5th – 7th.
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Prolume built custom LED fixtures for National Archive Museum
Attention to detail can mean visual difference between beautiful and stunning. When your objective is to create an optical experience that won’t soon be forgotten, choosing the ideal LED illumination to deliver the exact first impression should not be an afterthought or a decision at the end of the project. At Prolume, we collaborate with lighting designers, specifiers and architects from concept through project completion to provide a custom LED fixture solution that turns imagination into reality.
Designing with our standard Made in America linear fixture portfolio, Prolume will deliver fixtures that are cut to the nearest one-inch interval that you specify. By providing lighting designers and architects with such granularity of fixture length, Prolume’s LED tailored solutions help to ensure that the desired visual impression will be experienced by anyone visiting the venue.
Even with such standard LED linear fixture length granularity and flexibility, occasionally a tailored standard fixture will not meet the needs of a project. Under such circumstances, Prolume will work jointly with the lighting designer, architects or specifiers to design, develop and manufacture a unique Prolume Application Specific Fixture; PASF™. This attention to detail not only guarantees the difference between beautiful and breathtaking impressions but is regularly delivered at a price point that can be as economic as a standard off-the-shelf LED fixture solution.
Original US Declaration of Independence at National Archive Museum
The main attraction of the National Archives museum in Washington, DC is the 200+ year-old Declaration of Independence on display, or the Bill of Rights and Constitution. Museum exhibits therein are the “stars”. Visitors come expecting to feel emotion by what they see and lighting is the medium that allows human beings to see and experience beauty. It sets the mood, and can either detract or enhance the visitors’ experiences.
Vision is the sense through which we appreciate a museum. Light draws attention to colors, textures, and curves of a space, making architecture come alive and achieve the architect’s intention for the structure. If done correctly, lighting becomes the critical element for making a visitor’s experience unforgettable. One they will cherish and share with friends.
Museum lighting is used by lighting designers to direct the narrative and tell a story.
“It’s a visible dance,” said Hannah Crowell, an Exhibition Designer for Charlotte Mint Museum. “Where’s the showstopper in the room? Much like theater productions, museum exhibits always have a lead actor. And when that actor needs to be heard, we bump up the light.”
In Prolume’s history of providing lighting designers with professional LED lighting solutions for museums, only LED lighting is used. Ultra-Violet (UV) and Infrared (IR) spectrums in antiquated lighting mediums break down the chemical bond of dye, causing degradation of colors, woods and textiles. Museum lighting designers know the importance of using LEDs, however understanding color quality versus Color Rendering Index (CRI) and be less obvious.
Designers working with Prolume have direct access to expertise on CRI, Correlated Color Temperature (CCT), lumens and efficacy, and a full on-site lighting laboratory at our research and development center. Additionally, Prolume’s engineers understand that for the most discriminating projects, only custom light fixtures will do.
For a better understanding, here is a look at Prolume’s work on museum lighting.
Prolume lights facade of National Museum of the Marine Corps
Prolume lights the facade of the National Museum of the Marine Corp. An amazing building design, which needed facade lighting able to withstand harsh outdoor elements. The lighting needed to be bright enough to illuminate a vast area. The Prolume LUMA series, a high-power low voltage linear LED light fixture was used. A highly-engineered light fixture, the LUMA series is IP65 rated and uses a sturdy aluminum extrusion. In this case it was customized with carefully selected high-power LEDs, custom lengths and optics specified to illuminate the shortest or highest of walls.
Rail Lighting for Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Outdoor lighting helps pedestrians find their way along pathways and via lighting installed within hand-rails. Prolume custom designed the RIA series light for rail lighting and offers the Nite-Glow series light for pathway lighting. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is a gorgeous building already, but when accentuated with Prolume’s outdoor rail lighting product the building pops even more.
Once indoors, the focus is on: Focal Glow, Ambient Luminescence and Play of Brilliants; terms coined by the great architect & lighting designer, Richard Kelly. Prolume offers a collection of LED light fixtures for task, ambient and accent lighting.
National Archives Rotonda lit by Prolume
The National Archives Museum, home to our Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights and Constitution wanted to draw attention to the magnificent architecture in their Rotonda (vaulted ceiling). Lighting designers called on Prolume to engineer a solution that provided ‘shadow free’ illumination. This required a customized version of the previously mention LUMA series linear LED fixture. With a three-tier system the fixtures were stacked and given directional capabilities with a calculated formula of secondary LED optics so light reached the dome’s highest point. Problem solved. The 244 year-old documents are also well lit, but the power that surrounds you from above emits an indescribable feeling, that makes for a truly unforgettable experience.
Cove lighting in famous Jordan Lobby
Another marque site, the Jordan Lobby preceding the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial Hall will give you goose bumps on the first step inside. Here fortune 500 companies, United States Presidents and foreign dignitaries host events. Prolume helped light this building with its RIA light fixture. Casting a perfect stream of cove light onto the historic building walls and ceiling.
Bass Museum used Prolume lights in-ground to highlight their stone walls
The Bass Museum in Miami, Florida wanted to hide lights in the floor to help cascade light up their stone walls. Prolume handled this gracefully as seen in the images to the right. Again, museum lighting done with the RIA fixture. The light quality and intensity perfectly highlighted the texture of the walls. Installation was made easy with guided instructions written by Prolume engineers.
911 Memorial at Boston International Airport lit by Prolume
Another emotionally moving project that we were blessed to work on was the 9/11 Memorial at Boston International Airport; where historic flights 11 and 175 departed from. Prolume gave the glass structure a subtle glow with careful placement of the RIA LED light fixture. Take a close at the pictures and see it up close in video, here.
Shelburne Museum, a local museum, asked Prolume to help light antique display cases. A more delicate application like this was perfect for the LIA series light fixture. The same product is also seen in the United States National Postal Museum. The postal museum project Prolume back-lit windows to highlight old stamps seen from outdoors. Additionally, the RIA fixture provided accent lighting to help showcase an old blue post office box.
An affinity for history and lighting leads us into many museum lighting projects. We also worked with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and the National Museum of the United States Army. We’d love to work on more, but our schedule tends to fill up quickly, if you have a need for museum lighting please contact us and secure a quote and timeline right away.
November 13th. 2019
Chicago, IL
Booth 115
Prolume will be exhibiting at the 2019 LED Specifier Summit in Chicago, IL. This one day event will provide Prolume the opportunity to showcase their latest product offering to the LED marketplace and to converse with our channel partners, customers and new lighting designers, specifiers and architects.