What style of lights work with most interior designs?
If you’re looking for an elegant, timeless appeal for your lighting, you’ll love our latest trend, ‘diluted’, featuring the style we call ombre lighting. It’s about the natural movement and vulnerability of varying textures and colours, flowing effortlessly like the tide meeting the shore.
The natural ebb and flow of this design combines a calming sense of what’s been before and what is still to come, making this style a viable investment lighting purchase to last through many colour scheme changes for years to come.
Lighting as its nature, highlights and showcases the beauty of the materials that it surrounds as readily as it shows any flaws. Rippling textures, subtle colour changes and the fluidity of movement and contrasts display a varying effect when bouncing natural daylight when off and the warm, inviting hue when they’re illuminated on a cosy evening.
Capturing the eye and relaxing the senses, when you get your lighting right, it sets of your tranquil space perfectly.
Iridescent Lighting:
Sometimes referred to as rainbow glass, or petrol glass, this features a mesmirising mix of colours that vary depending on the viewing angle. Varying from subtle pastel tones to a more vibrant mix, this reminds me of the wonderment of looking at the colours contained within bubbles in childhood.
The MASSA table lamp base is all about fluidity. The shape is irregular which compliments the high, glossy iridescent glaze which gives an oil like sheen of multi colours. Each lamp is hand made, ensuring a completely individual and unique finish. Simply top with a shade of your choice!
Ombre Lighting:
Ombre has become synonymous with a hair colouring technique over recent years but in fact, it’s heritage began using a printing block for fabric printing back in the late 18th Century. The translation from the French originated word is ‘shadow’ and is therefore predominantly darker colours blending through to a paler tone of the same colour.
The TAVIRA from the Lighting Book is a modern oversized ceiling pendant with a bluey grey ombre outer – a real statement for large rooms! The 6 lampholders nestle behind the white cotton diffuser whilst the middle of the light is open for a contemporary edge.
The ABILO table lamp is a gorgeous ceramic table lamp in a pale pink which fades to white with a gentle ribbed pattern. Match with a shade of your choice, this is great to add a touch of subtle colour into a modern lounge.
Tinted Glass Lighting:
Tinted glass has been a popular way to introduce a subtle colour to our lighting for many years. Innermost have come up with an innovative way to utilise this material to fit within this trend, enter the mighty Matrioshka!
The Matrioshka ceiling pendants are gorgeous, colourful range inspired by Russian nesting dolls. Each pendant features three shades with elegant curving shapes. Starting with a white glass inner shade, there are two further shades in gradually darkening tones of yellow, grey, red and green. Being glass, it allows both natural light and the illumination from the bulb to pass through, offering an ever changing mixture of colours to keep the light looking fresh.
The FUTURA range from Copenhagen Glass Collection features delicately tinted glass that’s mouth blown in Denmark. These pendants feature a metallic mid section which contrasts with the delicately tinted top and bottom sections.
Metallic Sheen Lighting:
Another look to intrigue the eye, is using a contrast in finishes. Many modern designs focus on metallic finishes. This can be used as a finish on glass and the effect is stunning.
An effective glass table lamp with an innovative mirror finish in a sleek, tapered cylindrical shape. This features a mirror effect at the top of the shade to replicate a polished chrome finish which gradually disperses to leave a clear glass. The overall effect is stunning and captures attention.
A matching easy fit ceiling pendant is also available to complete the look!
Contrasting Textured Lighting:
As light bounces off the surface of nearby items, patterns and textures are a brilliant way to showcase the contrasts.
The Pinner table lamp is a modern table lamp with a delicate pink wash over a matte cream ceramic spinning-top shaped vase. This comes complete with a Cream faux silk cylinder shade and polished nickel finial. It looks great in a modern living room or bedroom.
A modern table lamp in polished nickel teams functionality with art form. Doubling as a sculpture, this elegant and contemporary table lamp comes complete with a black cylindrical shade. It looks great in a modern lounge and the shapes offer an ever-changing reflection from nearby surfaces and the fluidity of the design is soothing with no jarring edges.
So, go with the flow and get your design fluidity know no bounds…