Lighting

‘The Makers Who Make Us’ – Soane’s 25 years of British craftsmanship

To mark their 25th anniversary Soane has launched the Egyptomania collection of fabrics, furniture and lighting. The collection is inspired by thousands of years of Egyptian ...

How To Light Art

Whether your art collection is composed of a selection of prints, family photographs, the most sought-after contemporary art or priceless Old Masters, the critical question is, ...

John Cullen’s Essential Guide to Interior Lighting

For over 35 years, John Cullen have been known for planning and executing lighting schemes for residential, superyacht and the hospitality sector worldwide. Sally Storey is ...

Family businesses: on working together

We’d like to introduce you to some of the family businesses listed on TheHouseDirectory.com. It’s a tenuous path for family members to work together without conflict ...

Cox London on the Polypore Chandelier

Nicola and Christopher Cox, the husband and wife team behind Cox London, have created the Polypore Dish Chandelier, a handcrafted, four-tier organic light made with thousands of ...

Leather lighting by Villaverde

Villaverde designs and manufactures exclusive lighting in unique colours and finishes, handmade in Italy. Combining traditional techniques with materials such as Murano glass, metal, crystal and ...

Clare Mosley’s eglomisé glass

Gilder Clare Mosley makes eglomisé mirrors and panels, decorated crystal lampbases and a range of water gilded and toned curtain finials. Everything is handmade in her ...

Jamb’s new Hanbury lighting

Hanbury is a new collection of smaller versatile wall lights and hanging lanterns devised by Will Fisher and named after his East London house where the ...

Choosing LED lighting – 6 top tips from John Cullen Lighting

Sally Storey, Design Director at John Cullen Lighting, gives us her top six tips to look out for when selecting LEDS… LED lighting has improved dramatically ...

Leather lighting by Jane Knapp

Artist, designer, and horse-rider Jane Knapp has launched two new leather lighting designs inspired by equestrian equipment. The Somerset Leather Collection uses high-quality real leather that ...

Victoria Stainow’s shell mirror & sconces

Bespoke furniture and lighting designer Victoria Stainow works with carefully selected craftsmen, mainly in France, using modern as well as traditional techniques and a variety of ...

Skinflint’s vintage asylum lights

Among Skinflint Design‘s latest reclaimed and salvaged lighting are some intriguingly named ‘Asylum lights’. It turns out that they actually were used in a Victorian lunatic ...

Loaf’s SS15 collection

Loaf started off selling beds in 2008, soon added sofas to their range, and now supply ‘comfy, laid-back furniture and squishy stuff for the whole home’. ...

Anglepoise® – new collections, new look…

The quintessentially British brand Anglepoise® first developed its iconic task lamp with its pioneering perfect balance mechanism in the 1930s and now produces a wide range ...

Jane Knapp’s handmade bathroom lights

Jane Knapp‘s original range of lighting was inspired by old Moorish interiors and the patination of aged armour. The newest additions to her portfolio are these ...

A visit to Cox London’s workshop

We set off last week for Tottenham Hale, in north London, for a tour of Cox London‘s studio and workshop, where a team of thirteen ...

Essential guide to garden lighting

All you need to know about outdoor lighting. Sally Storey, Design Director of John Cullen gives us her tips for some magical garden lighting effects… Q. ...

The Kilruddery Colza Chandelier

Charles Edwards has just created a replica of a chandelier 2.8 metres (9ft 3in) high, originally made for Kilruddery House in Ireland. The original chandelier ...

Ochre’s Seed Cloud

OCHRE‘s ‘Seed Cloud’ chandelier is a beautifully-made piece which is more like a sculpture than a light. Although it has a clean and contemporary feel, ...

Wire chandelier

Biju Home have just launched a delightful wire wall light, which comes as a companion piece to their spectacular large wire chandeliers, now made in ...

Vintage-style light bulbs

The Olive Tree has a great range of lighting. Just in (and exclusive to them) are these vintage-style filament light bulbs from Denmark. ...

John Cullen Lighting’s latest project

This recently completed multi-million pound house was built on a vacant plot in Kensington. From the surface it looks like a traditional four storey mews, ...

Canteen in Covent Garden

Skinflint Designs have supplied a number of vintage British wall lights for the new Covent Garden branch of Canteen. Designed by the East London Design ...

Bespoke lights for Anna Karenina

One of Collier Webb’s latest commissions was to supply hanging lights, wall lights and door handles for the new Anna Karenina film with Keira Knightley ...

How to choose the perfect desk lamp

Lighting and home furnishings company Jim Lawrence gives us guidance on choosing the perfect desk lamp… When you think the average person spends 5 hours a ...

Cog lights

Antiques By Design is an innovative company that reclaims sporting and musical memorabilia, antique farming implements and other unusual and archaic items and converts them ...

Copper & Silk lampshades

Copper & Silk produce beautifully handcrafted lampshades for interior designers and lighting retailers. They have over 30 years’ experience and an exhaustive knowledge of contemporary ...

Bocci pendants

Holloways of Ludlow is showcasing some striking hand-blown glass pendants by the Vancouver-based design house Bocci. They are available in single through to 37 pendant ...

French Connection Home

French Connection is the latest fashion brand to launch a home collection. It features bedding, soft furnishings, ceramics, glassware and lighting in an understated palette ...

New Ochre showroom

Ochre has moved to a spacious new showroom in Clerkenwell to house its expanding collection of understated and sophisticated furnishings. The 1500sq ft showroom is ...

Zinc lamps

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