{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Defining Hospitality","title":"Beyond the Bulb - Thomas Paterson - Defining Hospitality","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3611,"description":"Dan Ryan talks with Thomas Paterson, founder and lighting designer at Lux Populi, about one of hospitality's most overlooked design disciplines… light. Thomas explains why lighting designers need a seat at the table from day one, not after the drawings are done, and shares his take on how light shapes a space's emotional experience. The conversation covers the gap between the 2% of projects that engage a true lighting specialist and the 30-50% that probably should, what it means to design from the inside out, his unconventional path from Australia to Mexico City, the sustainability case for old-school screw-in bulbs, and why asking the right question at the right moment is the smartest move a lighting designer can make.\nAbout the Guest: \nThomas Paterson is the founder, director, and principal lighting designer at Lux Populi, a Mexico City based lighting design studio. He brings a first principles approach to every project, asking what light can do before how it should look. His portfolio spans luxury resorts, boutique hotels, restaurants, museums, and infrastructure, including 15 years with Sandals Resorts, the Four Seasons Los Cabos, and a landmark tunnel gateway in Sydney. Originally from Australia and formerly based in London, he landed in Mexico City by chance and built one of the industry's most distinctive lighting practices.\n\nChapters:\n00:25 Meet Lighting Designer Thomas\n03:09 Hospitality Through Light\n06:43 Bring Lighting In Early\n10:17 Who Owns The Brief\n11:46 Do Projects Hire Lighting\n17:23 Lighting As Editing Tool\n25:43 Fixing Spaces After Opening\n29:09 Why Mexico City\n31:53 Mexico City Safety Shift\n32:43 Designing the Cocoon\n33:17 Contrast and Tone Basics\n34:14 Fixing a Brand’s Lighting\n35:47 Kelvin Myths Explained\n37:38 Infrared and Homogenous LEDs\n42:39 Culture and Buying Bulbs\n47:37 Sustainability and PoE Lighting\n54:53 Future of Lighting Design\n\nQuote of the Show:\n \"Lighting design is an editing tool. Emphasize, de-emphasize, reveal, conceal.\" -...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/jOMZku2zhfiEl2keEgoTu9dN4zv3kAryH7e0rdfDrqM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM5MzU3LzE2ODE4/MjI1NTUtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}