Luminarie De Cagna is an Italian family business that began in 1930. In those days, they would illuminate buildings and town squares with oil and carbide lamps, soon making the change to electric lights. From 2006, the company has used only LEDs, joined together to make large curtains of light, blanketing buildings or other objects. For the Light Festival Ghent 2012, Luminarie De Cagna is occupying Belfortstraat in Ghent, Belgium, with a giant colonnade made of wood and hundreds of thousands of coloured lights, with arches reminiscent of Romanesque and Renaissance architecture, with an entrance of 28 meters high. And for those concerned about wasting of energy, these 55, 000 LED lights consume only 20Kw/h of electricity. Impressive and enchanting even in photographs, I can only imagine how mesmerizing this would be in real life.
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