Mr. Vasilyev failed to get the equipment working, but Sasha Fedyakin, a lighting specialist at the theater, managed to do so.

He will design the sets for "A View From the Bridge" with another Pleasantville resident, Robert Koch, a lighting specialist.

During his career he assembled a team of artisans and craftspeople who worked with him: interior designers, sculptors, master glaziers, lighting specialists, and ironsmiths.

"This technique, if shown to be effective, could be everywhere," said Richard L. Vincent, a lighting specialist who is the study's manager.

There are lists of restorers, framers, sources for display units, lighting specialists and conservation organizations.

Peter Jacobson, a lighting specialist with Con Ed, said they were upgrading the star and it should be up by Memorial Day.

One outdoor lighting specialist often jokingly approaches homeowners by saying: "It's 6 P.M. Do you know where your flowers are?"

The biggest single cost, perhaps two-thirds, was labor, involving nearly 200 artisans, including sound technicians, lighting specialists, decorative painters, masonry workers, upholsterers and mosaic restoration specialists.

The first Montreal International Symposium on Lighting will feature displays by lighting specialists at six parks throughout the city.

Some consultants hired on the project were an acoustician and a lighting specialist.