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Lighting – all the Tolomeo family is here

05.25.2011 · Posted in Kitchens

I didn’t think I’d ever have to post about this lighting trend again. But when I spotted these images of a house for sale in Edam, The Netherlands, I just couldn’t stop myself.  It never rains but it pours, as they say – and in this house it’s pouring Artemide’s Tolomeo family: there’s a big ...

New light bulbs from GE – bright ideas for energy efficiency

04.28.2011 · Posted in Sustainable Design

I’m sure you’re all aware that the world of domestic lighting is undergoing big changes right now, as federal efficiency standards are scheduled to make incandescent bulbs disappear from store shelves by 2014*, LED technology improves in leaps and bounds, and compact fluorescent (CFL) bulbs gain greater (if sometimes grudging) acceptance. At KBIS this week ...

Lighting – The Tolomeo Identity

12.16.2010 · Posted in Kitchens, Oh, really?

I’ve been following this trend for a year or so now – office style suspension lamps appearing as task lighting in kitchens, especially the beautiful Tolomeo series from Artemide (blogged here and here, for example): I hadn’t realized quite how long the trend had persisted, though, until this movie scene caught my attention the other ...

What well-dressed lamps are wearing this week

12.10.2010 · Posted in Oh, really?

It’s been quite a week for fancy-dress light fixtures. First, the marvelously succinct Raina at If The Lampshade Fits pointed out these two, apparently wearing hooped skirts: Although I think technically they are wearing their hooped petticoats, and so are really in a state of indecent undress. Not so this lamp, featured on Yellowtrace, nicely ...

Winter Whites

12.08.2010 · Posted in Kitchens

It is one of the design world’s enduring mysteries, as far as I am concerned. Why is it that the more likely your country is to experience a long, cold winter, the more likely you are to have a white on white kitchen? (via) For evidence, I cite Mia, at the cool blog Trendey, who ...