The House Directory - Lighting - Specialist Fittings & Services

Architectural Components

Unit 2, 25 Effie Road, London, SW6 1EL
Tel: 020-7751 3397 Fax: 020-7736 1282

Email: sales@knobs.co.uk Web: www.doorhandles.co.uk

Good selection of switches and sockets (in flat, raised, single step, double step versions and period styles) in brass, chrome or stainless steel finishes. Also domed dolly switches, shaver points and dimmers. Socket plates for all countries to order.

Besselink & Jones

Shop: 99 Walton St, London, SW3 2HP
Tel: 020-7584 0343 Fax: 020-7584 0284

Trade showroom: 1/04 Chelsea Harbour Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour, London, SW10 0XE
Tel: 020-7351 4669 Fax: 020-7352 3898

Main office & workshops: Unit 53, Waterside Trading Centre, Trumpers Way, Hanwell, London, W7 2QD
Tel: 020-8574 4068 Fax: 020-8574 4072

Email: enquiry@besselink.com Web: www.besselink.com

Specialists for 50 years in conversion and restoration, the Besselink workshops offer a fully bespoke service; they can reproduce and rewire antique lamps, as well as converting treasured objects into serviceable lamps. Other services available are wiring and re-wiring, restoration, including fitted bases in black or gilded finishes. Besselink & Jones are experts in domestic and overseas electrical wiring for use in the UK, the US or Europe, they specialise in wiring to UL and British Standards and can provide IP rated units. Lamps and shades can be made or adapted to take candle clips, pendant fittings, fixed gimbel, duplex fittings or finial fittings.

Broughtons of Leicester

The Old Cinema, 69 Cropston Rd, Anstey, Leicestershire, LE7 7BP
Tel: 0116-234 1888 Fax: 0116-234 1188

Email: sales@broughtons.com Web: www.broughtons.com

The name Broughton has been synonymous with ironmongery in Leicester since 1888. Their 3,000 sq.ft. showroom is a one-stop shop for period style lighting and accessories for doors, windows and cabinets. The vast range of lighting includes rise and fall, interior and garden lanterns, billiard room lamps, uplighters, floor, table, ceiling and picture lighting, plus bathroom lighting, spotlights, Tiffany style lights, brass chandeliers, switches, sockets - even lamp posts. Here's where you can find items that are difficult to source, including domed dolly switches, ceilings roses and hooks, lamp holders, chains, flex -virtually everything for the period home.

Designer-lights.net

Designer-lights.net-addr-01: Fynn & Company Ltd, The Office, Ashe Park, Steventon, Hampshire, RG25 3AZ
Tel: 01256-772890

Email: fynn@designer-lights.net Web: www.designer-lights.net

Fynn is a design-led online store holding a wide range of carefully selected high-end light fittings at their UK warehouse to allow prompt delivery at the best possible price. Leading brands include Artemide, Fabbian, Flos, Foscarini, Kundalini, Pallucco, Rotaliana and Metalarte as well as an in-house designed collection of silk pendant shades.

Electricpoint

605-609 Green Lanes, London, N8 0RE
Tel: 020-8342 7020

Email: info@electricpoint.com Web: www.electricpoint.com

Electricpoint, an online electrical wholesaler, is a specialist in switches, dimmers and all types of lighting controls and contemporary lights - from leds to compact flourescents . Working with some of the top brand names in lights and fittings, including MK Electric, Hamilton Litestat and Lutron, they stock a broad range at competitive prices. A team is available on the phone or by email to offer advice and provide discounts for the bulk buyer. Most items are available for next day delivery.

Haute Deco

556 King's Rd, London, SW6 2DZ
Tel: 020-7736 7171 Fax: 020-7736 8484

Email: hautedeco@doorknobshop.com Web: www.doorknobshop.com

Although best-known for their unique selection of door knobs, Haute Déco also offers an individual collection of light switches. Chelsea switch cover plates are hand-polished and are available in a great range of colours and finishes including the new lacquer finishes featured here. They are available exclusively from Haute Déco's boutique-store on the Kings Road, or through their website.

Holloways of Ludlow

121 Shepherd's Bush Road, London, W6 7LP
Tel: 020-76025757 Fax: 020-76026561

140 Corve Street, Ludlow, Shropshire, SY8 2PG
Tel: 01584-876207 Fax: 01584-877046

36 Friars Stile Road, Richmond, Surrey, TW10 6NQ
Tel: 020-83329442 Fax: 020-83327521

Email: info@hollowaysofludlow.com Web: www.hollowaysofludlow.com

With over 20 years experience, Holloways of Ludlow source and supply interior fittings for architects, designers and private clients. Large, established companies are represented - plus small, lesser known manufacturers for switches and sockets in all styles: 'jelly mould' and dolly switches, bakelite, clear plates, contemporary designs, TV points, telephone sockets, data points, rocker switches and much more.

Phillips & Wood

4 Wilson Walk, off Prebend Gardens, London, W4 1TP
Tel: 020-8222 8117 Fax: 020-8748 9752

Email: info@phillipsandwood.co.uk Web: www.phillipsandwood.co.uk

Phillips & Wood have developed a comprehensive range of traditional and contemporary lighting, all designed and made in their Chiswick workshop. Their new LUXE range includes occasional tables, mirrors and cabinet handles, all made with the same attention to detail employed in the manufacture of their lighting. A fully bespoke service is available allowing for small changes to existing models or entirely new designs. The workshop is experienced in the repair and restoration of antiques and has years of experience with specialist paint effects, patination of metals, recreation of antique and retro designs, replacement of broken or missing brass and steel parts and much more.

Skinflint Design

5 Windsor Terrace, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 3BP
Tel: 01326-314528

Email: info@skinflintdesign.co.uk Web: www.skinflintdesign.co.uk

Skinflint are dealers in reclaimed retro lighting and salvaged lights from the 20th Century with an emphasis on industrial fixtures. They specialise in lighting products of a simple and clean lined nature predominantly from 1900 -1960. After trialling all the products on the market, they are now selling the best replacement for filament bulbs they could find. The new generation Philips LED bulbs provide the same effect as a traditional bulb, with 80% less energy consumption, a lamp life of 25,000 hours. Instant start, dimmable and mercury free. Next day UK delivery.

1 Stop Electrics

By appointment, West Sussex,
Tel: 01293-851194

Altima

Light Efficiency: 4 Chase Road, London, NW10 6HZ
Tel: 020-8453 8740 Fax: 020-8965 8010

Bell Lamps & Lighting(Trade Only)

Ripley Close, Normanton Ind Estate, Normanton, West Yorkshire, WF6 1TB
Tel: 01924-893380 Fax: 01924-894320