Scandinavian lighting: soft light for long winters
Why Danish and Finnish designers became masters of warm, glare free light, and how to bring the Nordic way of lighting into your own home.
Lighting Style Finder
Lighting style finder: which style suits you
Answer five quick questions about materials, evenings and shapes and discover your lighting style, with three articles to start.
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Italian lighting design: the golden age of the 1960s and 1970s
How Milan’s designers and manufacturers turned the lamp into sculpture, experiment and wit in the postwar decades, and how to live with their icons today.
Japanese inspired lighting: calm, paper and shadow
What Tanizaki’s In Praise of Shadows, paper lanterns and wabi-sabi can teach you about low, warm, quiet light, and how to create a calm light scene at home.
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- Light StudioSwitch layers of light on and off, change Kelvin and dim a room.
- Pendant Size CalculatorDiameter, hanging height and spacing for your room and table.
- Lumen CalculatorHow much light a room needs, in lumens, bulbs and watts.
- Icons TimelineA century of designer lamps, from 1920 to today.
- Lighting GlossaryFrom alabaster to UGR, short and clear.