A Brighter Idea
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New technologies with revolutionary capabilities.
We sculpt light like an architectural material. QuarkStar has a host of developed technologies with photon level control at every scale. |
Protected by hundreds of global patents, one example is Edge-X™, a modular scalable technology
capable of sculpting light in space like nothing seen before.
See for yourself...
capable of sculpting light in space like nothing seen before.
See for yourself...
QuarkStar Lights Up a Galaxy of Art
QuarkStar the primary lighting supplier for the centerpiece building
of the largest museum project in North America
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's Rich and Nancy Kinder Building
of the largest museum project in North America
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's Rich and Nancy Kinder Building
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"Subtle LED lighting that achieves remarkably consistent illumination"
Wall Street Journal
Photo credits - Richard Barnes
Wall Street Journal
Photo credits - Richard Barnes
"QUARKSTAR: Building a bridge between the natural and the artificial"
QuarkStar's extraordinary uniformity of illumination mimics
the look, the feel, and the functionality
of the best of natural lighting.
LD+A May 2021
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Want to learn more about the Q-Wall installation?
For more on the Kinder building and QuarkStar's role
in shaping light as an architectural material
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Award Nominated:
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Houston museum leverages QuarkStar optics to uniformly light art wallsFixtures that hide within the building architecture and spectral tuning bring natural light effects into the exhibit spaces in the new Kinder Building at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Startup QuarkStar has announced that its Edge-X technology has been installed throughout the new Nancy and Rich Kinder Building at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH). The relatively diminutive optical element can spread LED light uniformly over large areas such as walls while allowing the solid-state lighting (SSL) fixture to be essentially hidden in a room’s architectural features or recessed into the ceiling. Meanwhile, a multi-channel LED light engine enables the museum lighting to match the abundant natural light that the building design draws into the public spaces and galleries. Read more ... |
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from LUX Review, UK:
Ground-breaking optics debut in £330 million art galleryINNOVATIVE lighting optics developed by technologists in the US are being used for the first time in new £330 million (US$450 million) art gallery.
QuarkStar’s radical Edge-X technology has been specified by top lighting design practice L’Observatoire for the newly opened Kinder Building, centrepiece of a massive expansion to the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. The expansion was the largest fine art gallery project in North America in 2020, designed by US ‘starchitect’ Steven Holl. Read more ... |
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The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Designed by Steven Holl Architects especially for the display of the important and rapidly growing MFAH collections of 20th and 21st-century art, to which it dedicates more than 100,000 square feet of gallery space, the Kinder Building is the final component in the museum’s eight-year $450 million project to expand and enhance its Susan and Fayez S. Sarofim Campus in the heart of Houston, the largest fine arts building development project of its time in North America ...
In all respects, the Kinder building stands as a monument to the luminous: The façade’s liminal glass cladding; the third floor skylights’ extraordinary meld of form and function; the playful light-based art installations that mask the pedestrian tunnels’ subterranean nature; even the incorporation of a brand new LED lighting technology that has never been in a public installation before, completing the triumvirate of innovation in architecture, engineering, and technology. Read more ... |
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Inside the Museum
QuarkStar's revolutionary technology bridges the natural and artificial QuarkStar’s Edge-X™ technology delivers something previously never before seen in the lighting world: evenly distributed sheets of light easily spanning 16-ft gallery walls and daylight matching color-tuning from a single row of LEDs, all from a footprint so small when the museum saw it placed in a ceiling mockup, they chose to redesign the cove to take advantage of the empty space that was left behind. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s recently completed Nancy and Rich Kinder Building is not only an architectural marvel, but a supremely well-tuned instrument of light and lighting. It is top-to-bottom innovation of the luminous: the skylights above, the liminal glass cladding outside, the light-based installation art below in the underground tunnels, and QuarkStar innovations in the middle ... all in service of the ultimate innovations on display – the art itself. Read more ... |
Awards and Accolades for QuarkStar Technology
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One of the Best Innovations of Light+Building
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Winner in
DOE NGL Competition Emerging Technology |
One of the
20 Hottest Lighting Companies in the World |
Winner in
DOE NGL Competition Asymmetric Lighting |
One of Top 10 Products of LightFair International
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More Views on QuarkStar Technology
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from LUX, La Revue de L'eclairage (LUX, The Review of Lighting), Paris:
Technological breakthroughs: QuarkStar is 'completely changing the conceptual approach to lighting'
The French publication Lux highlights QuarkStar's Edge-X technology as a completely new approach.
"Holder of numerous patents, winner of many awards, the American start-up QuarkStar has completely rethought LED lighting in order to surpass current performances at all levels." Read the article >> |
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from LEDs Magazine:
"Taking Optics-Based Beam Distribution to a Whole New Level"
"At the end of the day, optics in SSL applications serve the primary task of controlling beam distribution. [QuarkStar] takes that task to a new level ...
"The company [QuarkStar] has developed some compelling demonstration optics, especially Edge-X for general illumination applications ... " Read the article >> |
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QuarkStar reinvents the downlight,
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QuarkStar CTO's solution of the previously unsolved major problem of color shift prediction forms basis of new industry standard
from LEDS Magazine (Carrie Meadows):
Predicting Chromaticity Shift in LEDs and SSL Products " [The model] has the potential to change how the solid-state lighting (SSL) industry utilizes test and measurement guidance, and effectively end the notion that the lumen is the only light characteristic that matters with regard to LED lifetime performance." Article based on Interview: https://www.ledsmagazine.com/blogs/article/16701575/focus-shifts-from-lumens-to-color Webcast no longer available: (To skip registration, use this email: QS_color_shift_control@quarkstar.com) Presented by: Dr. Eric Bretschneider, CTO QuarkStar Chair of the IES Solid-State Lighting Subcommittee |
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QuarkStar presents the Integrated System of Lighting
The Integrated System of Lighting:
Paving a New Path to Profitability Presented by QuarkStar at Strategies in Light February 2020 The inherent tendency to use familiar design means that the full potential of solid-state lighting technology has yet to be realized. LEDs offer a unique opportunity to develop a new class of fixtures of extraordinary design whereby the source and fixture are one-and-the-same.
Manufacturers benefit from lower production costs and higher margins while simultaneously offering customers new form factors at lower price points that have superior performance and lifetime. Systems of this integrated nature reduce both cost and complexity, improve reliability and performance, and offer radically new opportunities for integration into the built environment. The endpoint is a true systems integration, where separate sources, optics, and fixtures are no longer needed while also offering brand new capabilities. The source and the fixture can become a single unit offering greater beam-shaping, enhanced color stability, and lower costs to manufacture. |
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QuarkStar presents two keynote talks
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