The New York Times has posted the official obituary for Paul Marantz. Read a preview below, or click here to read the full article by Joanne Kaufman.
“Paul Marantz, a prominent architectural lighting designer who illuminated disco floors and skylines, libraries and chic hotels, train stations and concert halls, museums and embassies, died on May 26 at his home in Manhattan. He was 87.
The cause of death was complications of a stroke, his wife, Jane Marantz, said.
Mr. Marantz, who was known as the Prince of Darkness by industry wags, cast a wide net.
His projects, sometimes done in concert with his business partners, Charles Stone and the Tony Award-winning lighting designer Jules Fisher, included new buildings — the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London (1991), the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland (1995), the Getty Center in Los Angeles (1997), the Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar (2008), the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia (2012) — as well as many venerable old structures.”