MAXIMAL LIVING: LIGHTING
Lighting makes or breaks a home. You can have all the beautiful furnishings under the sun, but without the right use of lighting it can fall in a heap. In this blog I’m going to share some fo my favourite lighting ideas. Just for the thrill of it!
Martyn Lawrence Bullard
This UK Expat but US based celebrity designer knows how to bring the drama to any home he works on. His lighting is always stellar, so I was pleased to see that he had released a range with Corbett Lighting in the US. Below is the ‘Melrose’ pendant used over the Island in his very own kitchen in West Hollywood. I love the brass curved middle and the way that they resemble pills of light in this fabulous green kitchen. As Martyn would definitely say ‘It’s Delicious!’
Above: The wonderful ‘Melrose’ pendants from Corbett lighting hang beautifully in Martyn’s green kitchen.
Jonathan Adler
If you haven’t heard of him, Jonathan is a stylish and eclectic American potter, designer, and author. I love his ‘Globo’ table lamp. I also love that it is put in a room with Joan Collins in a pink and white bedroom with an accessory pink poodle, circa 1955.
Above: The ‘Globo’ lamp by Jonathan Adler.
Anna Spiro
Anna Spiro is a wonderful Queensland based designer with a penchant for beautifully patterned and coloured interiors. She also now has designed a range of fabrics. I’m not sure about the details in relation to the yellow table lamp [below] with patterned shade, but i love that Anna rarely laves a lampshade unpatterned.
Above: A colourful kitchen has a pop of light from Anna Spiro Designs.
Diane Keaton
Yep, you read it correctly and it is who you are thinking of. Hollywood actress Diane Keaton produced this amazing kitchen with a mammoth custom-made island bench, fitted out with chicken wire cabinetry. Overhead, pendant lights have been made from cleverly repurposed material from a chicken coup. It’s a stark contrast to the colour and finesse of the lamps highlighted above, but what a statement the three custom pendants make. Lighting is firstly about function but should also be about style, whether in a colourful, eclectic setting [like above] or a rustic, farmhouse feel like Diane’s kitchen below.
Above: A wonderful farmhouse kitchen designed and belonging to Hollywood actress Diane Keaton.
Boyd Blue
Boyd Blue are a manufacturer and purveyor of beautiful furnishings with trade only stores in some states of Australia. I love the grandeur of the below oversized rattan pendants. I imagine these as a cluster in large coastal home, adding drama over an oversized dining table, or in a very high entry vestibule. Although I am not sure BB still produce these gems, I still love this image and idea for one of my future projects!
Kelly Wearstler
Kelly is a fabulous US based Interior & Product designer who pretty much does whatever she wants in her design career. There’s no going ‘too far’ for Kelly, and she is absolutely a woman I admire. Her range of sculptural table lamps below are wonderful in terms of base, but I’m bored with the straight forward white shades adorning the tops. What do you think?
I hope you enjoyed a few of my favourite lighting ideas above.
Thinking further, I would raid Anna Spiro’s fabric collection and change the Kelly Wearstler shades out into something with a punch of colour. But that’s just the way I like to do things :)
AS