The Private Gallery

This contemporary residence is lit the way a private gallery is lit, in deliberate service of a serious art collection. Concealed linear LED strips graze the underside of floating display shelves, washing each bronze, ceramic, and glass piece in even, museum-quality light, while precisely aimed accent spots pick out individual sculptures against clean plaster walls. In the entry, a luminous halo ring set into the ceiling announces the home with quiet drama as a single tight beam spotlights a towering figural sculpture. Continuous runs of linear light draw the eye down the gallery hallway, and a sculptural suspension fixture floats above the kitchen island like an artwork in its own right. Throughout, the architecture recedes and the collection glows, the mark of lighting designed to disappear.