Interior design

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Pendant

Art history; General art history

During the Art Nouveau and Art Déco period, a pendant was also known as a single, suspended light source (usually gas or electricity). The word indeed means something else: a loose-hanging piece of ...

Candle power

Art history; General art history

Also known as: candlepower or bougie. It can be abbreviated as cp. A unit for measuring the quantity of light. It expresses levels of light intensity in terms of the light emitted by a candle of ...

Perfume-burner

Art history; General art history

A small night-light that contains a phial or dish of, for example, cassia or ground cinnamon that, when heated by the warmth of the light source, emits a sweet fragrance: a decorative variation on ...

Chandelier

Art history; General art history

An adorning suspended support for one or more light sources. Chandeliers are usually ornate, using dozens of lamps and intricate arrays of glass or crystal prisms to illuminate a room with refracted ...

Lighting engineer

Art history; General art history

It is the member of a profession based on the science of light (photometry) and its relationship to interior design. A lighting engineer is also can also be responsible for lighting in gigs and/or ...