Sestak Lighting Design

Since its founding in 2000, Sestak Lighting Design has designed the lighting for many projects. Clients include architects, interior designers, developers, building owners and private individuals. Professional services are planned to meet the needs, scope and budget of each project. We provide a variety of services in addition to general architectural lighting design, including custom fixture design, facade illumination and landscape illumination.Because of our experience in architectural lighting and control systems, we can help our clients to achieve successfully lighted spaces faster and with greater confidence than if they were to design the lighting on their own.

For the most cost-effective use of our services, our involvement begins early in the design process when the project has taken shape but is not yet locked into exact dimensions, construction systems, details and materials. A concept session during the phase of programming or schematic design makes possible a much better integration of lighting with architecture that can be achieved later in the design process. Early agreement as to programmatic goals for lighting will save a great deal of time in subsequent phases.

We do not start the design process with numbers, charts and calculations. The human eye perceives lighted forms, not numbers such as footcandle levels or theoretical brightness ratios. We begin our design process, therefore, by studying what forms and tasks should be illuminated and how this can best be done.