Lighting designers are reaching for the stars

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Throughout the middle ages, churches, chapels and cathedrals were erected across Europe, their vaulted ceilings covered with cobalt and painstakingly decorated with individual golden stars: heaven on earth. The urge to pull the night sky inside persists today, from artist Richard Wright’s 47,000 minimalist stars adorning Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum to the London living…