Sutton Vane Associates designed the lighting for the historic spaces of Auckland Castle. Reproduction Argand lights, precise copies from Abbotsford House add light to rooms with decorated ceilings, by secret luminaires concealed in the oil reserves. In other rooms new fittings inspired by historic forms were also designed. World class paintings are lit with specially designed picture lights that fit in with the historic atmosphere as well as giving flexible and well controlled light to the paintings. Period lights, across centuries, were restored or re-created to reveal the history.