Fifteen lenses and plates for Kinetic effect lighting system, designed and manufactured by Concord Lighting International.

Kinetic effect lighting system, fourteen circular screens in punched, sectioned and perforated metal, textured and plain glass. All contained within a circular, clear plastic box with a lid.

Gift of the manufacturer

Historical significance: Winner of the Design Centre Award in 1972.

From the Design Journal, editorial, March, 1972.
About eighteen months ago Concord Lighting set about producing a kinetic lighting system at a modest price which would not demand specialist skills to operate and which was flexible enough to cover virtually any requirement. The system is based on the design team's discovery that the a wider variety of visual patterns can be created by projecting a static symbol and a moving symbol on to the same space (see DESIGN 26/30).

The Lumiere itself consists of a series of circular slides in a punched metal, textured glass, and plain glass with black designs fired on to the surface. Polished prism discs and colour filters are also included and all these discs can be used in conjunction with each other, one rotating while one or more remain static. Its projector incorporates a fixed effect cassette and a rotating effect holder behind the lens, with a reversible motor housed beside the lens outside the casing. A Quartet framing spot is mounted on a permanently tensioned stirrup with a 360 degree stop.

The recessed framing projector is unobtrusively concealed in the ceiling, projecting its beam through a small opening, and has a fixable angular adjustment. The Autofade is an electric dimmer unit. It can be used as a single unit to control one circuit or can be banked to control a number of circuits in sequence or together.

Effect lighting system, designed and made by Concord lighting International Ltd, comprises Lumiere projector from £40, Quartet framing spot from £18, recessed framing projector from £18, colour wheel from £12, Autofade from £32.

Design Journal, COID Awards 1972, London, March 1972, pp.29-34.

Concord Lighting came into existence in 1964 when its parent company, Rotaflex, floated it on the London Stock Exchange. Concord’s reputation dates back to 1968 when 'Powerflood', one of the first display applications of the double-ended linear halogen lamp, took the lighting market by storm, so much so that Luciano Zucchi, design manager of Concord's original parent company Rotaflex, commented 'We don't sell light fittings - we sell lighting'. In the period from 1979- 1988 Concord established itself as the brand that knew about lighting. This period stood out for many due to Janet Turner - 'A doyenne of the lighting industry.' Janet was Design Director of Concord Lighting for a period of 20 years. Under her leadership and guidance, the then High Holborn (London) showroom became a networking hub for senior designers and architects, many of whom are still well known today for their London based practices.

CIRC.461 to M-1973