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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).\n\r\nThe 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.\n\r\nThe 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.\r\n\r\nEffect 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.\n\nDesign Journal,<u> COID Awards 1972</u>, London, March 1972, pp.29-34.","physicalDescription":"Kinetic effect lighting system, autofade unit.  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