Kikuchi Museum

Tokyo, Japan

Architect: MFM Designs

Year Completed: 2002

Photography: Sterling E. Stevens

Delivering innovative lighting solutions, George Sexton Associates provided gallery lighting design to all the exhibition spaces and feature lighting to public spaces in this new purpose-built museum for historic and contemporary ceramics. GSA developed an exterior lighting design to give the new museum its nighttime identity. Evoking moonlight, GSA’s lighting design scheme complemented the architecture and promoted its connection to the landscape by using lighting techniques that blend the interior and exterior spaces together. The connection between the museum restaurant interior and garden is further emphasized by the stary sky ceiling, which integrates hundreds of optic fibers mounted flush within the silver leaf ceiling to provide ambient light and miniature spotlights to accent the tables.