Lampshade

The lampshade is a on a light attached ( in everyday language lamp) device that serves several purposes:

Lamp shades are used in modern architecture as a light object and as its luminous body, which gives a pleasant atmosphere of the room. It can for a lamp shade almost all materials and forms are used fabric umbrellas, lacquer screens, line paint umbrellas, parasols parchment and so on, there are now special fiberglass fabric which are flame retardant and is used for example at airports.

The imagination of the forms are virtually no limits: cubic shapes, cylinders, composite shapes from different screens.

To achieve the first purpose, one uses bell -, plate - or funnel-shaped lampshades mattgeschliffenem glass (formerly Paris lampshade called ), milk glass, mica, paper, textile materials or wound Sisalschnur.

For the second purpose mentioned lampshades are used especially in working areas of offices, workshops and factories. Even with dark lanterns and headlamps functionally designed screens are common.

Made from screen glass lampshades reduce the effects of radiated heat from the lamps and indeed, without weakening the light noticeably.

Since the eye -color light does not tolerate well, radiating light sources must be surrounded with a suitable lamp shade in colored light to produce " warm" light. Generally one uses to screens in the respective complementary colors.