They spotlighted more than sweaty palms and leisure suits of the disco dancers. That glittery workhorse has contemporary clones in disco lights and chasing lights, the kind that sputter on theater marquees. What those mirror balls do is multi-faceted. For the Harley-Davidson Cafe, he used chasing lights to focus on a collection of vintage motorcycles. Seven bikes are displayed on a conveyor belt that is suspended from the ceiling.
Lights play off the bikes' chrome and metal surfaces.
And those reflections, like the example of the rotating mirror ball, dazzle the eye. This type of lighting isolates tables. Customers get the feeling of their own little space. A room filled with clusters of private spaces doesn't seem large or impersonal. The pools of light can be used to read the menu.