Lighting
 Pet Lamp started in Spain to encourage designers to put ubiquitous waste plastic bottles to creative use. Now it's on the way to becoming a global sustainable lighting project. |
 This light and capacious modern house on a sloping plot in Vienna is heated from the ground, full of oak and has a Bocci cascading light fixture as its piece de resistance |
 Madeleine Boulesteix can take a box of unwanted glasses, teacups and jelly moulds and turn them into chandelier that will captivate and delight you for years to come. She talks to Abby Trow about her work |
 Portable lamps are such a good idea and Marset's Bicoca is a great example of this growing genre of rechargeable lighting |
 Designers are using much more wood for decorative lighting, and not just for the stands. From the elaborate to the pared down and minimal, wood is a surprisingly versatile material for lights |
 Wood veneer lighting brand LZF says a bijou kitchen can become a stunner with some high impact pendant lights..and don't stint on the size |
 Summer is a good time of year to revamp your home and garden lighting. So if you've not switched to LEDs, well you're more than missing a trick... |
 For lighting that creates special effects that are relaxing and more interesting that anything on TV, choose an eco-friendly LED lamp by Amberlights |
 Does your heart sink when you look around a lighting shop? Find much of what's on offer too fussy, too dated, too samey or too unimaginative? Then look to modern lighting from Spain, which is home to scores of great manufacturers who've embraced energy-saving LED technology |
 Looking for a light that really does make it enjoyable to read in bed? Want an overhead lamp you can just plug in to a socket...and works as a bookshelf to boot? The plywood LiliLite could be just the ticket |
 Danish flatpack designer lighting brand Vita Copenhagen is now offering its Acorn light in white. This very pretty pendant is ideal for those who love to see their low energy filament bulb |
 Abby Trow talks to lighting designer Mariví Calvo of innovative wood veneer lighting brand LZF. She reckons the company is about as eco as it's possible for a designer brand to be. |
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