Custom Furniture Lighting

ture lighting is an art form. It requires sensitivity to thestrips arrive, they are hard-wired to a vertical or
uniqueness of an individual piece of free standinghorizontal surface within the cabinet or case. The
furniture and a willingness to do whatever is necessarysurfaces to which these strip lights are mounted vary
to customize display lighting fixtures to the dimensionswidely depending on the type of furniture we are
and aesthetic of the furniture itself. Altering the furniturelighting. In free standing bookshelves, for example, we
to fit the lighting defeats the entire purpose of luxurytypically mount our strip lights to the bottom front of
display lighting, and falls far short of the luminancethe shelf in order to cast the light slightly backward and
requirements needed to bring out the rich textures andonto hardbacks on display.
colors in many hardwood pieces. Furniture lightingIn cabinets, we also position horizontal strip lights under
fixtures must be custom-manufactured to fit thethe top header to illuminate contents on top shelves.
shelves, vertical styles, or interior doors of a freeCorner cabinets can be lit with vertical strips that are
standing piece. They must also be concealed as muchconcealed along the interior vertical styles of the
as possible in order to produce the illusion ofdisplay. However, many antique cabinets and antique
sourceless light. This added sense of mystiquereproductions lack vertical styles, and feature only a
contributes to a sense of timelessness and eleganceset of glass-paned doors that open outward. When
apropos to antique and reproduction furniture andlighting these cases, we will either mount vertical strip
brings added emphasis to the special contents typicallylights to the rear interior of the door, or we mount them
displayed therein.along the rear wall along the interior corner. While the
Phantom linear strip lights are ideal for this form of finestrip lights may be momentarily visible to someone
furniture lighting. Because we manufacture only customstanding right in front of the cabinet when they open
pieces, it is possible for us to custom cut a linear stripthe door, the sheik, low profile design of
light to the precise interior dimensions of an armoire,Phantom’s furniture lighting strip provides an
free standing bookshelf, breakfront, corner cabinet,presentable aesthetic compliment to interior contents
bibliothèque, or vitrine. This has to be done on aand a return to apparently “sourceless”
case by case basis, which is why we never advertiselighting once the doors are closed.
ourselves as a “furniture light” companyAntique and reproduction furniture is intended to
in the stereotypical sense of the term. We are morefunction as a focal point in the room, and as such must
like the luminaire equivalent of a furniturebe carefully preserved with a minimum of alteration to
builder—creating space out of something thatits original condition. Because our lighting strips are
does not consume space, (light) and bringing the fullsmaller than other cabinet light fixtures and because of
value of the furniture’s aesthetic to thetheir patented wireless functionally, only a minimum of
forefront of the viewer’s attention.drilling into the wood is required to mount them. Your
Phantom agents assess the dimensions of a freePhantom Agent will custom design your light strips to
standing antique or reproduction piece and determine ifleave your armoire, book case, antique display, or curio
a horizontally mounted or vertically mounted fixture iscabinet virtually unchanged, while simultaneously
needed. They determine the necessary length of thetransforming its dark interior into a whole new world of
furniture lighting strip, and then place an order with thedepth, color and light.
low voltage light manufacturing team. When the lighting