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 ...
Woohoo - the lighting gods are all on my side this week. I’ve just heard from the delightful folks at lumens.com that I won a Tolomeo Micro Desk Lamp from Artemide – how cool is that? All I did was drop my card in a basket at the NKBA Industry Showcase in Oakland, and now ...
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 ...
By the time you read this I’ll be heading home from NYC. There were so many treasures at the AD Home Design Show, I can’t possibly share them all – but I can give you a few beautiful examples to look at while I’m trapped in a metal tube crossing the continent. For me it ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...